Small fat reduction could save thousands of lives say researchers
11
A new study from scientists at Queen Mary University London claims a small reduction in fat in some of the country’s favourite foods could prevent thousands of deaths over the coming years.
The study says a small fat reduction in foods like pizza could help prevent cases of type 2 diabetes
A new study led by researchers from the Wolfson Institute, Queen Mary University of London, has proposed a comprehensive fat reduction model, which they claim would be an effective strategy to reduce excessive calories in manufactured and out-of-home food and over five years prevent 4.5 million people from becoming overweight and developing obesity.
Factors behind Marie Sklodowska-Curie Action grant wins
The University of Oslo in Norway is punching above its weight in terms of the number of Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Individual Fellowships awarded in the announcement by the European Commission on 8 February, hosting 25 overall, including 11 in the humanities faculty alone.
This is despite MSCA fellowships being among the most competitive and prestigious awards in Europe, aimed at supporting the best and the most promising scientists. There are indications, for instance, that the MSCA fellows (grantees) perform better on average both before and after the grant.
Per Magnus Kommandantvold, who is the national coordinator for MSCA in the Research Council of Norway, told
EncroChat: Appeal court finds ‘digital phone tapping’ admissible in criminal trials
Appeal Court decides EncroChat-encrypted phone records can be used in criminal trials. Critics say the decision means phone tapping no longer has a ‘clear meaning in the digital age’
Share this item with your network: By Published: 06 Feb 2021 2:27
Judges have decided that communications collected by French and Dutch police from the encrypted phone network EncroChat using software “implants” are admissible evidence in British courts.
Police have made more than 1,000 arrests in the UK after the EncroChat phone network was compromised by French and Dutch investigators.
UK law prohibits law enforcement agencies from using evidence obtained from interception in criminal trials.
Black Holes Could Get So Humongous, Astronomers Came Up With a New Size Category
There are supermassive black holes. There are
ultramassive black holes. How large can these strange objects grow? Well, there could be something even bigger than ultramassive:
stupendously large black holes, according to the latest research.
Such hypothetical black holes - larger than 100 billion times the mass of the Sun - have been explored in a new paper which names them SLABs, an acronym that stands for Stupendously LArge Black holeS . We already know that black holes exist over a vast range of masses, with a supermassive black hole of 4 million solar masses residing at the centre of our own galaxy, explained astronomer Bernard Carr of Queen Mary University London.