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Researchers at the ¹û¶³´«Ã½ are celebrating the success of the first year of the Darwin Field Station in The Gambia's Abuko Nature Reserve. The building required four months of full time labour and over 12,000 wheelbarrow loads of concrete, sand and stone (wheeled up a steep 300 metre path) to complete and is now playing a vital role in protecting a range of rare animals.

An astrophysicist from the ¹û¶³´«Ã½ recently chose to be transported to Antarctica to be exposed to extreme cold, eerie silences and life in the field in order to utilize her artistic side as part of a special programme designed to give a leading scientist a chance to work in another discipline– and the results of that adventure are to be presented at a special exhibition of her work at the ¹û¶³´«Ã½ later this month.

Researchers from the ¹û¶³´«Ã½ have produced a startling calculation that any move to replace the UK's oil burning vehicles with greener hydrogen powered cars and trucks would require the erection of 100,000 new wind turbines or 100 new nuclear power plants.

Researchers from the ¹û¶³´«Ã½ have found that routine physiotherapy for mild to moderate low back pain is no more effective than a single advice session with a physiotherapist.

A consortium of researchers, farmers and a major baker are working together to fill future supermarket shelves with loaves of bread that will arrest the plummeting levels in the UK diet of a mineral that plays a significant role in male fertility and the prevention of some cancers.

Researchers at the ¹û¶³´«Ã½ have found a way of using a test devised in the 1930s, and used to gauge the stress on the superchargers in wartime spitfire fighter planes, to model the stress that surgical procedures would put on an aortic aneurysm. An aortic aneurysm is a dangerous bulge in the body’s largest artery the aorta. The aorta is a crucial artery as it carries all the blood pumped from the heart.