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Trans Fatty Acid Anger: TFAs linked to aggression

14/03/2012

And you thought the worst thing about a Twinky bar was the yucky goo in the middle. We found that greater trans fatty acids were significantly associated with greater aggression Trans fatty acids,...

Wave Them Around Like You Just Don’t Care: Gesture-based commands for iTunes/Spotify

13/03/2012

Flutter- Controlling your music through hand gestures. An intuitive leap from www.flutter.io, bringing the wireless functionality of the XBox Kinect to the home computer. In this case, using the...

Bloodstock Festival: Lineup Announcements

13/03/2012

Bloodstock 2012 Festival: Lineup Announcements ...

Missing Person: Owain Roberts (The Reasoning)

12/03/2012

A more serious Trebuchet News story than usual today. An appeal for help or information concerning the disappearance of Owain Roberts. A police description of Owain follows, but a critical piece of...

Alcohol Reduces Stroke Risk

11/03/2012

Hooray! Booze can lessen the risk of women getting strokes. Stop sniggering at the back. Not that kind of stroke. According to new research from Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH),...

Can You Hear This?

10/03/2012

In both animals and humans, vocal signals used for communication contain a wide array of different sounds that are determined by the vibrational frequencies of vocal cords. For example, the pitch of...

Gilberto Gil, Roots Manuva: Back to Black Festival

09/03/2012

Gilberto Gil, Roots Manuva: Back to Black Festival 29/6 – 1/7 Gilberto Gil – everyone's favourite ex Minister for Culture comes to the UK for the London 2012 Festival. Exploring...

NinjaTune: Free Tracks for International Women’s Day

08/03/2012

NinjaTune – spotlighting some of the women on their label with a free tracks giveaway. Make what you will of International Women's Day – a timely, albeit paltry acknowledgement of the...

2:54 Announce Album and UK Tour

07/03/2012

Everyone's favourite punk, hard-rock, r 'n' b sister duo 2:54 announce the release of their eponymous debut album, 2:54. Maybe it's best not to mention that Collette and Hannah...

Share the Pain: What Women Want From Men

06/03/2012

An early contender for the 'Still No Cure For Cancer' award for scientific research into things we all knew already, the American Psychological Association today release the findings of a...

Swedish Band Lingua Call it Quits

05/03/2012

Trebuchet's interview with Lingua in November 2010 teased some lucid quotes from guitarist Misha Sedini, amongst them this psalm to the merits of self-motivation: On our first record, we leaned...

Earthshine Reflects on the Search for Extra Terrestrial Life

04/03/2012

Some ideas just have a clear beauty of their own that satisfy something primal in us. This one is far from being the most complicated concept, but it does have a symmetrical allure to it that is...

Attractive Robotic Fish Developed

03/03/2012

This one is just screaming out for the 'fish 'n' chips' headline. Robotic fish, developed by researchers at NYU-Poly, prove successful at inducing natural fish to follow them. In the...

Guns and Roses UK Tour

02/03/2012

'where the grass is green and the girls are pretty' You KNOW Axl Rose was singing about Nottingham. Well now he's finally made it. Gigs in Nottingham, Liverpool, Newcastle, Glasgow,...

Cafe OTO Launch Record Label

29/02/2012

Cafe OTO, Keiko and Hamish's Dalston emporium of Japanese snackery curates consistently-brilliant live music concerts, and pops up in Trebuchet's gig listings more often than just about any...

Summer Camp: New Single, St. Etienne Remix [Stream]

28/02/2012

Summer Camp announce the release of their new single 'Losing My Mind' on March 19th. Nothing special about that, singles are annouced every day, glittery press photos and promo videos clog...

Tricky and Martina Topley-Bird to perform Maxinquaye

27/02/2012

An incendiary pairing, in life as well as on record. Nostalgia ain't what it used to be, and cash-in tours are becoming tedious, but hearing Martina Topley-Bird performing Maxinquaye with Tricky...

Street drug ‘bath salts’ packs double punch

26/02/2012

Government reaction to unregulated drugs still tends towards Anslinger-style scaremongering. It seems to be the default setting. Which can be counter-productive too. When a new drug becomes a...

A rainbow in the palm of your hand

25/02/2012

The wonders of science. A polymer that can simultaneously reflect all the visible wavelengths of light. Described as having applications thatcould include: 'biomedical imaging, including...

WOMAD Announce Lineup

24/02/2012

Growing steadily since its first incarnation in 1982, WOMAD proves, year-in, year-out, that popular music is not simply a rundown of what happens to be shifting the most units on iTunes in any given...

Chess Players See Differently

22/02/2012

Just as expert chess players scrutinize a board to calculate their next moves, UT Dallas cognitive neuroscientists are studying the way these players' brains work to better understand how visual...

Public Image Limited: New Material

21/02/2012

Public Image Limited, ready to release. It's been a while coming, about twenty years in all, but PIL are now ready to release the work that they've been recording over the last year....

Peaking Lights Announce Tour Dates

20/02/2012

Floaty loops and rasping feedback, Wisconsin-based Peaking Lights (although they're originally Cali-Friscan) bring their live show to the UK this summer. Dates just announced: Saturday 2nd of...

Formation-Flying Minibots

20/02/2012

Watch the video, then think of the applications. Try not to get too paranoid. Cruise missiles used street mapping technology to pinpoint targets in the first Gulf War, which is a small solace for...

Hangover? Might Be Better Than You Think

19/02/2012

Alcoholic drinks aren't generally put into the category of health food, but in some cases they might be just the cure for nasty parasites. That's according to a study published online on February 16...

Organic Foods May Contain Arsenic

18/02/2012

In yet another swingeing attack on the smug middle classes, it turns out that much of what was considered a healthy alternative to the chemical-infused pork-products and sugary beverages so beloved...

FaceBook Targets ‘Faggots’?

17/02/2012

It appears that FaceBook consider the word 'faggot' to be an acceptable target word to use when homing their advertising in on gay users. FaceBook's use of a derogatory target keyword, as...

Nicola Anthony on Colourful Radio

16/02/2012

Tune in quick to http://www.colourfulradio.com/weekday/ to catch Trebuchet art columnist Nicola Anthony as the subject of Silvia Krupinska's discussion of her work with the Edible Art Movement....

Hugh Laurie Announces Summer Dates

15/02/2012

This summer sees Hugh Laurie and the Copper Bottom Band return to the UK to perform their biggest headline shows to date. These new dates are announced following the critical success of the small,...