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Skill set key to sticking to a healthy diet
The ability to stick to a diet is linked to how efficient you are in a group of mental processes – according to research by University of Aberdeen scientists, presented today at the British Science Festival.
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Great Barrier Reef sea squirt could create a smaller, faster, greener computer of the future
Scientists from the University of Aberdeen’s Marine Biodiscovery Centre and the University of St Andrews today presented their work on the components of a new type of computer chip created using molecules from a sea squirt sourced from the bottom of the Great Barrier Reef, at the British Science Festival...
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Forget Crimewatch – the Vikings were there first
We think of Vikings as highly aggressive raiders who ravished Europe in the Early Middle Ages but how could these men be controlled when they returned to their homeland after plundering other countries?
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Habitable planets could be much more widespread in the universe than previously understood
A new scientific model to understand the amount of our universe which is habitable developed by University of Aberdeen scientists is being announced today at the British Science Festival.
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Ancient Alaskan hair could reveal insight into climate change
In a scientific first, chemical analysis of ancient Eskimo hair found in Western Alaska could reveal how people in the region lived through times of climate change over the last 1000 years.
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Does a high fat diet damage your brain?
A high fat diet may damage the part of the brain that controls appetite and energy expenditure which in turn dictates our weight.
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Can souped-up soup tackle childhood asthma?
Mums-to-be are being recruited onto a study to see whether soup specially boosted with natural vitamin E containing food ingredients can help fend off childhood asthma. University of Aberdeen researchers have collaborated with Scotland based producer Baxters Food Group on three soups that have had their ingredients carefully selected to...
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Rehabilitation favoured over methadone according to study findings
The public does not value drug treatment generally but believes detoxification and rehabilitation is a better approach to drug treatment than methadone maintenance, according to a University of Aberdeen study, the findings of which were presented today at the British Science Festival.
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Should food addiction be classified in similar terms as drug or alcohol addiction?
Scientists investigate whether food addiction should be classed as a mental disorder.
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Air quality device helps reduce children’s exposure to smoke in the home
Providing parents who smoke with measurements of their homes indoor air quality (IAQ), in addition to usual smoking advice, leads to better IAQ and reduces children’s exposure to second hand smoke.