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- Underwater power cables make lobsters larvae bad swimmers https://www.hw.ac.uk/news/articles/2022/underwater-power-cables-make-lobsters-bad.htm 55 comments
- Underwater power cables affects crabs biology at a cellular level https://www.hw.ac.uk/news/articles/2021/underwater-cables-stop-crabs-in-their-tracks.htm 103 comments
- Welding breakthrough could transform manufacturing https://www.hw.ac.uk/about/news/2019/welding-breakthrough-could-transform.htm 99 comments
- New data collection puts star and planet formation in astronomers’ reach https://www.hw.ac.uk/news/articles/2022/new-data-collection-puts-star-and-planet.htm 3 comments space
- Brown crabs can’t resist the electromagnetic pull of underwater power cables and that change affects their biology at a cellular level: “They’re not moving and not foraging for food or seeking a mate, this also leads to changes in sugar metabolism, they store more sugar and produce less lactate" https://www.hw.ac.uk/news/articles/2021/underwater-cables-stop-crabs-in-their-tracks.htm 744 comments science
- Quantum observers may be entitled to their own facts, sometimes cannot agree on what happened in an experiment https://www.hw.ac.uk/news/articles/2019/quantum.htm 53 comments science
- Scientists from Heriot-Watt University have welded glass and metal together using an ultrafast laser system, in a breakthrough for the manufacturing industry. https://www.hw.ac.uk/about/news/2019/welding-breakthrough-could-transform.htm 13 comments europe
- We could be swallowing more than 100 tiny plastic particles with every main meal, a Heriot-Watt study has revealed. The scientists concluded that the average person swallows up to 68,415 potentially dangerous plastic fibres a year simply through sitting down to eat. https://www.hw.ac.uk/about/news/academic-reveals-more-than-100-tiny-plastics.htm 27 comments science