- Mathematicians have modeled the conditions necessary for men to climax during sex, but consider women’s orgasms as needing further work. https://www.sussex.ac.uk/news/research?id=60611 23 comments science
- New highly sensitive quantum sensors for the brain may in the future be able to identify brain diseases such as dementia, ALS and Parkinson's, by spotting a slowing in the speed at which signals travel across the brain. https://www.sussex.ac.uk/broadcast/read/56791 3 comments science
- Supercomputer in your bedroom: Researchers unleash potential of desktop PCs to run simulations of mammals’ brains. https://www.sussex.ac.uk/news/all?id=54567 7 comments science
- Scientists have calculated the mass range for Dark Matter. The results show that Dark Matter cannot be either ‘ultra-light’ or ‘super-heavy’, as some have theorised, unless an as-yet undiscovered force also acts upon it. https://www.sussex.ac.uk/news/all?id=54482 7 comments science
- The brains of binge-drinkers have to work harder to feel empathy for others. The binge-drinking participants struggled more when trying to adopt the perspective of another person experiencing the pain: they took more time and effort to appreciate how intensely another person would feel pain. https://www.sussex.ac.uk/news/research?id=52703 627 comments science
- If countries want to lower emissions as substantially, and cost-effectively as possible, they should prioritize support for renewables, rather than nuclear power. Countries around the world with larger scale national nuclear attachments do not tend to show significantly lower carbon emissions https://www.sussex.ac.uk/news/research?id=53376 15 comments science
- New paper points the finger at the Rubber Hand Illusion and raises difficult questions for psychologists - "Results show that the commonly reported effects of the Rubber Hand Illusion can be attributed to imaginative suggestion’ – otherwise known as ‘hypnosis’. " http://www.sussex.ac.uk/broadcast/read/51729 3 comments science
- First nonlinear camera capable of capturing high-resolution images of the interior of solid objects using terahertz (THz) radiation. https://www.sussex.ac.uk/news/features/all?id=51331 19 comments science
- A new study shows that there is a huge disproportion in the level of funding for social science research into the greatest challenge in combating global warming -- how to get individuals and societies to overcome ingrained human habits to make the changes necessary to mitigate climate change. http://www.sussex.ac.uk/broadcast/read/50794 5 comments science
- Chemists have found a new use for the waste product of nuclear power - transforming an unused stockpile into a versatile compound which could be used to create valuable commodity chemicals as well as new energy sources. http://www.sussex.ac.uk/broadcast/read/50673 100 comments science
- US immigration judges make harsher decisions when they ‘feel the heat’: The hotter the day the more likely US immigration judges are to make harsher decisions – a new study reveals https://www.sussex.ac.uk/news/media-centre/press-releases/id/48949 10 comments law
- The world’s most widely used artificial sweetener has not been adequately proven to be safe for human consumption, argues a newly published paper from University of Sussex researchers https://www.sussex.ac.uk/news/media-centre/press-releases/id/49143 71 comments science
- The hotter the day the more likely US immigration judges are to make harsher decisions – a new study can reveal. https://www.sussex.ac.uk/news/media-centre/press-releases/id/48949 18 comments science
- Depression in your twenties linked to memory loss in your fifties, find Sussex psychologists https://www.sussex.ac.uk/news/media-centre/press-releases/id/48169 18 comments science
- A bioplastic created from fish skin and scales and red algae could have a huge impact on limiting the amount of non-biodegradable plastic waste created in the world. https://www.sussex.ac.uk/news/media-centre/press-releases/id/48861 36 comments science
- Wind it up: Europe has the untapped onshore capacity to meet global energy demand https://www.sussex.ac.uk/news/media-centre/press-releases/id/49312 7 comments worldnews
- Europe has the capacity to produce more than 100 times the amount of energy it currently produces through onshore windfarms, new analysis has revealed. The new study reveals that Europe has the potential to supply enough energy for the whole world until 2050. https://www.sussex.ac.uk/news/media-centre/press-releases/id/49312 15 comments europe
- Wind it up: Europe has the untapped onshore capacity to meet global energy demand https://www.sussex.ac.uk/news/media-centre/press-releases/id/49312 38 comments europe
- Europe has the capacity to produce more than 100 times the amount of energy it currently produces through onshore windfarms, new analysis has revealed. The new study reveals that Europe has the potential to supply enough energy for the whole world until 2050. https://www.sussex.ac.uk/news/media-centre/press-releases/id/49312 2884 comments science
- A new large-scale longitudinal study has found a clear link between episodes of depression and anxiety experienced by adults in their twenties, thirties and forties, with a decrease in memory function by the time they are in their fifties. http://www.sussex.ac.uk/broadcast/read/48169 100 comments science
- Researchers have for the first time used game theory to enable robots to assist humans in a safe and versatile manner, in a new paper published in Nature Machine Intelligence. https://www.sussex.ac.uk/news/media-centre/press-releases/id/47199 3 comments science
- Researchers have become the first in the world to develop technology which can bend sound waves around an obstacle and levitate an object above it. http://www.sussex.ac.uk/broadcast/read/46415 14 comments worldnews
- The same reward areas in the brain are activated whether a person acts out of genuine altruism, where there’s nothing in it for them, or strategic kindness, where there’s something to be gained. More than that, other areas of the brain are also activated with altruism, indicating it’s uniqueness. https://www.sussex.ac.uk/news/research?id=46037 47 comments science
- 100 times faster broadband is coming: 5G passes first test for indoor coverage at University of Sussex http://www.sussex.ac.uk/news/media-centre/press-releases/id/45315 94 comments technology
- Researchers report exposure to sour foods can increase our desire to take a few risks. Risk averse people, such as those with anxiety disorders, could benefit from eating sour tasting foods to help boost risk-taking behaviors, such as talking to new people http://www.sussex.ac.uk/broadcast/read/45094 8 comments science
- A study reveals that horses can read and then remember people’s emotional expressions, enabling them to use this information to identify people who could pose a potential threat. http://www.sussex.ac.uk/news/research?id=44626 55 comments science
- ‘Purposeful leaders’ are winning hearts and minds in workplaces, study finds. People are happier and productive when their leaders show strong morals http://www.sussex.ac.uk/newsandevents/pressrelease/id/40606 670 comments science
- Picture overload hinders children learning new words in storybooks, study finds. University of Sussex psychologists have shown that having more than one illustration per page results in poorer word learning among pre-schoolers. The findings are published in Infant and Child Development. http://www.sussex.ac.uk/newsandevents/pressrelease/id/40738 9 comments science
- Researchers create material that bends, shapes, and focuses sound waves that pass through it. The metamaterial can be used in medical imaging and therapy, as well as in a wide range of consumer products like audio spotlights and ultrasonic haptics that use sound to create tactile shapes in mid-air. http://www.sussex.ac.uk/newsandevents/?id=39354 4 comments science
- New research shows how silver could solve issues of touch-screen technologies http://www.sussex.ac.uk/broadcast/read/35542 23 comments science
- Self-perception in Western culture has much more in common with the rest of the world than previously suggested, contradicting the "West vs. The Rest" divide in concepts of selfhood http://www.sussex.ac.uk/staff/newsandevents/?id=36415 3 comments science
- A farming technique practised for centuries by villagers in West Africa, which converts nutrient-poor rainforest soil into fertile farmland, could be the answer to mitigating climate change and revolutionising farming across Africa. http://www.sussex.ac.uk/newsandevents/pressrelease/id/35929 390 comments science
- Fossil fuels could be phased out worldwide in a decade, says new study http://www.sussex.ac.uk/newsandevents/pressrelease/id/35187 27 comments science
- "Exposure to a pesticide banned by the European Union significantly affects the learning of honeybees but has no effect on bumblebees -- scientists from the University of Sussex have discovered." http://www.sussex.ac.uk/research/newsandevents/?id=35058 3 comments europe
- "Exposure to a pesticide banned by the European Union significantly affects the learning of honeybees but has no effect on bumblebees -- scientists from the University of Sussex have discovered." http://www.sussex.ac.uk/research/newsandevents/?id=35058 67 comments science
- Scientists have identified weak spots in cancer cells that could be targeted and attacked by new precision drugs: The findings could lead to personalised medicine that ‘reads’ a cancer patient’s DNA and only attacks defective cells http://www.sussex.ac.uk/newsandevents/?id=29249 19 comments science
- Training can lead to synaesthetic experiences, study shows http://www.sussex.ac.uk/newsandevents/pressrelease/id/27643 4 comments cogsci
- Study suggests that people can be trained to experience synesthesia, in which multiple sense modalities are activated in response to a stimulus (e.g. "seeing" colors in music). http://www.sussex.ac.uk/newsandevents/pressrelease/id/27643 26 comments science
- A Case of Computational Thinking: The Subtle Effect of Hidden Dependencies on the User Experience of Version Control http://www.sussex.ac.uk/users/bend/ppig2014/13church-soderberg-elango-ppig2014.pdf 6 comments programming
- Science AMA Series: I am Shaun Hotchkiss, a theoretical cosmologist studying inflation and the large scale structure of the universe, AMA. http://www.sussex.ac.uk/profiles/227721 923 comments science