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Harry Potter-style invisibility cloak closer to reality after 4.9m pounds grant

London, Nov 13 (ANI): Scientists from Imperial College London and the University of Southampton have been granted 4.9million pounds for inventing Harry Potter-style invisibility cloak.

They are using metamaterials that makes the object invisible by bending light away from it.

Metamaterials are man-made structured composite materials created by altering [...]

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‘Brain-to-brain communication’ developed

London, Oct 15 (ANI): Reading minds would soon be possible, thanks to British scientists who have developed a system that creates “brain to brain communication.”

The system, developed by a team at the University of Southampton, makes it possible to send messages formed by one person’s brain signals through an internet connection to another person’s brain [...]

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Discovery of ancient Roman amphitheatre as significant as Stonehenge

London, October 1 (ANI): A team of archaeologists has uncovered a lavish Roman amphitheatre in Italy at a site described as being of the same significance as Stonehenge.

According to a report in The Times, the team, led by University of Southampton researchers, discovered an amphitheatre of [...]

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Common cold, stomach infection can hasten memory loss in Alzheimer’s patients

Washington, Sept 8 (ANI): Getting a cold, stomach or other infections can lead to faster memory loss in Alzheimer’s patients, claims a new study.

The study from University of Southampton, UK, has revealed that people who had respiratory, gastrointestinal or other infections or even bumps and bruises from a fall were more likely to have high [...]

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5 last-ditch schemes to prevent global warming disaster (Re-Issue)

Washington, September 6 (ANI): A new study by the United Kingdom’s Royal Society has outlined five last-ditch schemes needed to prevent a global warming disaster.

According to National Geographic News, United Kingdom’s Royal Society’s report is the first from a major scientific body devoted to ranking the various proposals for “geoengineering.”

“It is an unpalatable truth that [...]

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5 last-ditch schemes to prevent global warming disaster

Washington, September 5 (ANI): A new study by the United Kingdom’s Royal Society has outlined five last-ditch schemes needed to prevent a global warming disaster.

According to National Geographic News, United Kingdom’s Royal Society’s report is the first from a major scientific body devoted to ranking the various proposals for “geoengineering.”

“It is an unpalatable truth that [...]

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Heating of Arctic current contributes to global warming

Washington, August 16 (ANI): Scientists have found that the warming of the northward-flowing West Spitsbergen current in the Arctic over the last thirty years has contributed to global warming by triggering the release of methane, a potent greenhouse gas, from methane [...]

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Blood clots in women taking the Pill ‘rare’

London, August 14 (ANI): The Family Planning Association has claimed that British women are not routinely using the safest brand of the Pill, after two studies found that the risk of blood clots in females using oral contraceptives overall is small.

Two separate studies in the British Medical Journal discovered that some pills were associated with [...]

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Study to improve the health of young people in India

Southampton (UK), Aug.12 (ANI): Scientists from the University of Southampton are exploring the link between low birth weight and diseases in later life to help improve the health of young people in India.

They are examining the impact that low birth weight and infant [...]

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