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UK public research university in York, England, with departments spanning psychology, archaeology, biology, and the humanities.
University of York researchers found alcohol-free beer on tap raised uptake in three UK pubs with no loss of drinks revenue. The tap was the last of three stacked changes, so nobody yet knows how much it adds on its own in any one pub.
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Sheffield and York researchers imaged two DNA helices with grooves aligned like a zip, confirming a pairing predicted more than 20 years ago. Simulations credit bridges of positive ions that form most readily at certain sequences, a model so far tested only on purified DNA.
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University of York researchers report 18.2% of York's children lived in relative poverty after housing costs in 2025, 125 years after Rowntree's study. Because York ranks as the UK's most affluent city by its count of well-off neighbourhoods, the report argues that poverty there is hidden and has to be sought out.
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York researchers report that theta strength while people learned word-picture pairs predicted which pairs were consolidated overnight, which places the triage step in the waking brain and leaves sleep to carry it out.
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Researchers found sheeppox virus DNA in 32 folia of medieval European parchment, including three pages of the York Gospels. The finding turns animal-skin manuscripts into a dated archive of ancient livestock disease.
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A reanalysis of 18 mammoth ivory figurines dug up in northern Ukraine between 1908 and 1913 finds their engraved lines following structures inside the tusk. Mizyn is so far the only site where the pattern has been reported.
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A Frontiers in Conservation Science analysis of Parks Canada conflict records from 2010 to 2023 puts elk at 62 percent, well ahead of grizzlies and black bears, with townsites the setting that concentrates them.
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