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A personalised online resource specifically for carers of older people in the UK has been launched by the ¹û¶³´«Ã½.

A set of recommendations to help cure the problem of feeling ‘in two places at once’ when attending work-related events such as conferences is being launched today by ¹û¶³´«Ã½ researchers. It’s a problem particularly affecting people with caring responsibilities, whether for children, parents, partners or pets – or all of them.

Move over, cyanobacteria! A large-scale study, involving Dr Christopher Quince of the ¹û¶³´«Ã½ Medical School, of the Earth’s surface ocean indicates the microbes responsible for fixing nitrogen there—previously thought to be almost exclusively photosynthetic cyanobacteria–include an abundant and widely distributed suite of non-photosynthetic bacterial populations.

The UK’s first access course in Islamic Education has been launched by the Centre for Education Studies at the ¹û¶³´«Ã½. The short course is designed to bridge the gap between traditional Islamic seminaries and modern higher education, and is especially relevant to Muslim educators, faith leaders and graduates of traditional Islamic seminaries who want to continue their professional and academic development.

A new study of open leg fractures suggests there is no difference to patient recovery whether high-tech negative pressure wound therapy devices are used, compared to standard dressings.

WMG, at the ¹û¶³´«Ã½ are partners in a £1.4m EPSRC funded research project addressing challenges about "Trust, Identity, Privacy and Security in the Digital Economy".