Insulation only provides short-term reduction in household gas consumption, study of UK housing suggests
First study to look at long-term effect of insulation finds fall in gas consumption per household was small, with all energy savings disappearing by the fourth
Jan. 1, 2023 • ~8 min
Men may not ‘perceive’ domestic tasks as needing doing in the same way as women, philosophers argue
By adding a gender dimension to the theory of “affordance perception” and applying it to the home, a new hypothesis may help answer questions of why women
Dec. 22, 2022 • ~6 min
Paying farmers to create woodland and wetland is the most cost-effective way to hit UK environment targets
Study of farmer preferences shows that turning whole areas of farmland into habitats comes with half the price tag of integrating nature into productive
Dec. 20, 2022 • ~6 min
Technique for tracking resistant cancer cells could lead to new treatments for relapsing breast cancer patients
Cambridge scientists have managed to identify and kill those breast cancer cells that evade standard treatments in a study in mice. The approach is a step
Dec. 19, 2022 • ~4 min
‘Cocktail’ vaccines could offer increased protection against future COVID-19 variants of concern
COVID-19 vaccinations that combine two or more distinct variants of the SARS-CoV-2 virus could offer protection against both current and future ‘variants of
Dec. 14, 2022 • ~4 min
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