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University of Surrey is a UK research university in Guildford, England, known for work in physics, engineering, and space and materials research.
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European researchers report that amlodipine, a blood pressure drug taken by over 70 million people in the US, eased ADHD-like traits in animal tests. Its use for the quarter of patients whom existing drugs fail still awaits human trials.
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Surrey physicists have designed a superfluid-helium qubit that, by their calculations, would err about 100 times less often than superconducting qubits. No device has been built yet, so the figure is a prediction until the team's planned prototype measures it.
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Surrey researchers found the anti-fibrotic compound SD-208 cuts cells' vesicle release by diverting the vesicles to lysosomes. Other drugs aimed at the same target did not copy it, so the effect looks independent of SD-208's known action.
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A review in Acta Astronautica compares space solar cells at the start of a mission, and on that measure silicon is cheaper and lighter, while triple-junction cells are still expected to hold more of their power after five years in orbit.
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Warnings that AI is about to escape human control rest on the forecasts of well-known figures. New Scientist put the question to two researchers, who point to cyber-capability tests that their own designers did not isolate.
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A Journal of Travel Research paper describes generative AI as cognitive scaffolding that keeps holiday planning moving while the traveler decides. It is interview work, so the finding is a direction, not yet a completion rate.
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Emily Setty's paper in Porn Studies sets England's warning-led pornography lessons against interdisciplinary research on how teenagers read sexual media. The design is a policy analysis, so it measures no classroom outcomes.
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A Surrey study of nine soundscapes found road noise eroded the restorative effect of birdsong even below WHO daytime guidance, with heart rate variability falling too.
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