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The University of Bristol is a UK research university whose researchers span mathematics, geoscience, photonics, and paleontology.
Cornell and Bristol researchers applied transmission strings to JWST data and found WASP-17b's atmosphere more extended on one side. The shape matches theoretical predictions, so the study is a first test of the method on one planet.
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University of Bristol researchers set out five steps in The Lancet to protect health from a super El Niño expected late this year. Most of the steps ask for evidence first, because the extra health burden El Niño adds to climate change is still largely unmeasured.
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Dongoconodon platycauda, a 120-million-year-old swimming mammal from Liaoning, replaced all four tooth classes repeatedly, its describers report. Bristol's Mike Benton accepts the teeth but calls them a late retention, so the fossil may tell us more about one lineage than about where mammals came from.
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UK photonics took £18.5bn in revenue in 2024, up 20% in two years, according to the UK Photonics Leadership Group. At Photon2026 in Newcastle, a government science adviser said its spin-outs now need plans to grow into larger businesses.
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Dinodontosaurus turns up outside South America for the first time, in Tanzanian rocks that also hold the world's oldest dinosaur candidates, and the South American sequences it matches carry younger radiometric dates.
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Dinodontosaurus isiyavamanda, described from bones a British expedition collected in the 1960s, extends a South American genus into Tanzania. The shared genus argues that those Tanzanian beds are no older than South America's.
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Nvidia's CEO told Ezra Klein that AI-native graduates arrive around 2028 because college takes four years. The answer covers the class after next and leaves this year's entry-level hiring where it was.
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Chris Doughty's team turned simulated exoplanet climates into lifetime carbon budgets. TRAPPIST-1e came out at 21% of Earth's, low enough for the authors to call it microbial, on a pace curve calibrated from Earth alone.
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Bristol and Oxford researchers put all 104 matches through the UK's most powerful supercomputer and found harmful-commodity branding visible during 39.3 hours of live play, seven in ten appearances for food and drink.
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The AnWj antigen has gone unexplained since 1972. Researchers found homozygous MAL deletions in five people who lack it, then made cultured cells react with AnWj antibodies by adding the normal gene.
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Each classifier answers one randomly chosen question and trains in minutes on a laptop; the Bristol team says enough of them can pick one item out of millions, with no coordination between them.
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The 70 percent figure behind the eyewitness unreliability consensus is a share of DNA exonerations, and the researchers who study memory say a witness tested once on a fair lineup gives confidence that does track accuracy.
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A study of more than 2,100 US cities and counties finds reported surpluses shrinking through legal accounting choices after property values rose, on a sample that begins in 2005 and stops in 2013. The finding is an association.
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Four in ten UK institutions are forecast to run a deficit this financial year while more than 518,000 students arrive, and the eight leaders Nature asked divide over whether that is a transition or a failure.
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Varinder Aggarwal's group at Bristol used a photocatalyst and a swappable group on nitrogen to turn simple 1,5-dienes into rigid bicyclics, the kind of saturated scaffold medicinal chemists want in place of benzene.
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In simulation the cubes kept their answer with 15 percent of them deleted and rebuilt the gaps, and in hardware 197 blocks named their object every time, which is a smaller and cleaner claim than fault-tolerant computing.
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Mars has no moving plates, so its crust was assumed to have formed simply. A new reading of InSight's marsquake records suggests instead that molten rock evolved and reprocessed itself through the whole thickness of it.
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If dark matter made the signal, the implied WIMP weighs at least 200 GeV, and LZ says its backgrounds there are very low. But the event came out of re-searching data already collected, so newer exposure has to settle it.
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A 78-day playback experiment on Great Barrier Reef spiny chromis separates the window that stunted growth from the one that broke escape responses, which is what makes vessel traffic a lever managers can pull.
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