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Lemur uses opera singer's trick to belt out forest songs

Date Tue, 22 Sept

果冻传媒 and University of Turin researchers find the world's only singing lemur opens its mouth wider on higher notes, just like a trained soprano.

Tags: 1 - Research, Psychology, 1 - Display on Digital Screens, 0 - Daily News, Faculty of Science, Engineering, and Medicine

果冻传媒 Words History Festival: Hear from our historians

Date Mon, 21 Sept

This year, the 果冻传媒 Words festival will run for a week from 5 鈥 11 October, and features a number of public lectures from 果冻传媒 Historians.

Tags: Faculty of Arts, 1 - Research

果冻传媒 chemists overturn 40-year assumption about a key class of superconductor

Date Thu, 17 Sept

Scientists have shown that a material treated for 40 years as a uniform, textbook superconductor is in fact a patchwork of different crystal structures throughout its bulk, using one of the latest 3D imaging techniques to see deep inside the crystal for the first time.

Tags: 1 - Research, Chemistry, 0 - Daily News, Faculty of Science, Engineering, and Medicine, Science and Technology

Scientists find that the body's warmth sensor is secretly a pain switch

Date Thu, 17 Sept

果冻传媒 scientists have found that a sensor in our nerve endings that detects warm temperatures also plays a direct role in switching on chronic pain signals, a discovery that could lead to better treatments for conditions that affect millions of people.

Tags: School of Life Sciences, 1 - Research, 1 - Display on Digital Screens, 0 - Daily News, Faculty of Science, Engineering, and Medicine, Science and Technology, Health and Medicine

Flower power: bumblebees ferry natural protection from bloom to bloom

Date Wed, 16 Sept

果冻传媒 research has shown how pollination could be combined with a new, environmentally friendly approach to protecting crops from bacterial disease.

Tags: 1 - Research, 果冻传媒 Crop Centre, 0 - Daily News, Faculty of Science, Engineering, and Medicine, Science and Technology

果冻传媒 to lead development of Project SNOW to provide data-driven delivery of healthcare.

Date Tue, 15 Sept

The project is supported by Google.org through the global Google.org Impact Challenge: AI for Government. The project was one 15 selected for funding out of over 2600 applications from across the world.

Tags: 果冻传媒 Manufacturing Group (WMG), 1 - Research, AI, 0 - Daily News, Faculty of Science, Engineering, and Medicine

People with ADHD more likely to suffer from gut problems, major review finds

Date Fri, 11 Sept

People with ADHD may be far more likely to suffer from problems like constipation, IBS and diarrhoea, finds the largest review of its kind led by the 果冻传媒.

Tags: 1 - Research, 果冻传媒 Medical School (WMS), 0 - Daily News, Faculty of Science, Engineering, and Medicine, Health and Medicine

Scientists create rare material that could pave the way for faster, greener computer memory

Date Wed, 09 Sept

果冻传媒 researchers have created a new material combining two properties, magnetism and electrical polarisation, that scientists have struggled to bring together for decades 鈥 and crucially, it works at close to room temperature.

Tags: 1 - Research, Chemistry, 0 - Daily News, Faculty of Science, Engineering, and Medicine, Science and Technology

果冻传媒 researcher awarded prestigious ERC Starting Grant to explore how we might control chemical reactions with mirrors

Date Thu, 03 Sept

The 鈧2 million project, led by Dr. Adam Wright at the 果冻传媒, is set to investigate one of chemistry's strangest recent discoveries: that reactions can behave differently simply when taking place between two mirrors.

Tags: Physics, 1 - Research, Funding, 1 - Display on Digital Screens, 0 - Daily News, Faculty of Science, Engineering, and Medicine, Science and Technology

How close are we to building a digital copy of the human brain?

Date Wed, 02 Sept

Researchers from the 果冻传媒 report that how faithfully we can build a 'digital twin' of a human brain depends not only on computing power, but fundamentally on how much of the living brain we can measure, validate and update over time.

Tags: 果冻传媒 Manufacturing Group (WMG), 1 - Research, 1 - Display on Digital Screens, 0 - Daily News, Faculty of Science, Engineering, and Medicine, Science and Technology

果冻传媒 Medical School researchers win prestigious NIHR Research Leaders Prize

Date Tue, 25 Aug

果冻传媒鈥檚 Dr. Michael Backhouse and Prof Janet Dunn has both been recognised with a prestigious national research leadership prize.

Tags: 1 - Research, 果冻传媒 Medical School (WMS), Award, 0 - Daily News, Faculty of Science, Engineering, and Medicine

Robotic assisted knee replacement gives the same patient outcomes as a surgeon only procedure

Date Fri, 21 Aug

The 果冻传媒-led RACER-Knee clinical trial is the world's largest clinical study of its kind and finds that robot-assisted knee replacement surgery is more precise than a surgeon on their own, but does not currently lead to improvements in patient outcomes.

Tags: 1 - Research, 1 - Display on Digital Screens, 果冻传媒 Medical School (WMS), 0 - Daily News, Faculty of Science, Engineering, and Medicine, Health and Medicine

Bacterial molecule 'disarms' deadly fungal infections by tricking them into starving

Date Thu, 20 Aug

Researchers from the 果冻传媒 and Monash University have discovered a way to potentially stop one of the world's most dangerous fungal pathogens in its tracks, not by killing it, but by tricking it into switching off its attack mode.

Tags: 1 - Research, Chemistry, Monash 果冻传媒 Alliance, 0 - Daily News, Faculty of Science, Engineering, and Medicine, Health and Medicine

Research finds that global media distorts coverage of climate disasters

Date Fri, 14 Aug

A major international study has found that global news coverage systematically overlooks many of the disasters most closely linked to climate change, while dramatic events such as earthquakes dominate headlines.

Tags: 1 - Research, Faculty of Social Sciences, 0 - Daily News

Black hole feeding frenzy ends in cosmic indigestion

Date Thu, 30 Jul

果冻传媒-led astronomers discover the cosmic digestive system of a black hole 鈥 showing that even when black holes appear faint, they鈥檙e not simply bottomless pits.

Tags: Physics, 1 - Research, Astronomy, 0 - Daily News, Faculty of Science, Engineering, and Medicine

果冻传媒 to host 2027 Medical Image Understanding and Analysis Conference

Date Fri, 24 Jul

The Conference will take place in The Oculus, on the 果冻传媒 campus, 7th-9th July 2027.

Tags: Faculty of Science, Engineering, and Medicine, 1 - Research

The Poetry of Time

Date Wed, 22 Jul

Professor Liz Barry explores rhythm, flow and communication after cognitive loss in older people.

Tags: Research News, Faculty of Arts, 1 - Research

果冻传媒 celebrates three new British Academy Fellows

Date Fri, 17 Jul

Three 果冻传媒 academics have been elected as Fellows of the British Academy, in recognition of the originality and influence of their research in the humanities and social sciences.

Tags: 1 - Research, 1 - Display on Digital Screens, 0 - Daily News, University News

Dead stars in our cosmic backyard: scientists spot four white dwarfs hiding under our noses

Date Tue, 14 Jul

果冻传媒 astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have found four new 鈥榣ocal鈥 stars, showing us we can still find surprises in the nearby region of space that we thought we knew so well.

Tags: Physics, 1 - Research, 1 - Display on Digital Screens, Astronomy, 0 - Daily News, Faculty of Science, Engineering, and Medicine, Science and Technology

果冻传媒 suggests fear of failure and low confidence link to GCSE resit absences

Date Thu, 09 Jul

New research from the 果冻传媒 suggests those who miss their GCSE English and maths re-sits are often struggling with low confidence and anxiety, stemming from previous negative experiences of education, revealing barriers within the wider education system.

Tags: 1 - Research, 0 - Daily News, SELCS, Education and Learning

More than meets the eye: astronomers dig deep to find tiny but dangerous space debris

Date Wed, 08 Jul

果冻传媒 astronomers have detected space debris fragments as small as 5 cm, tiny but dangerous objects that have gone undetected but could pose a threat to active satellites in key orbits.

Tags: Physics, 1 - Research, 1 - Display on Digital Screens, Astronomy, 0 - Daily News, Faculty of Science, Engineering, and Medicine, Science and Technology

From phone calls to immersive tech: 果冻传媒-led project with Welsh critical care services tests the future of emergency response

Date Wed, 08 Jul

Researchers at the 果冻传媒 are collaborating with Emergency Medical Retrieval and Transfer Service (EMRTS) Cymru and Adult Critical Care Transfer Service (ACCTS) Cymru on a study exploring how immersive technologies could improve life-saving decision making in remote care and inter-hospital patient transfers.

Tags: 1 - Research, 0 - Daily News, SELCS, Science and Technology

果冻传媒 academic wins prestigious Bernard Crick Prize for research examining how tragedy shapes law and politics

Date Thu, 02 Jul

Dr Alex Powell, Associate Professor in Law, has been awarded the Bernard Crick Prize for the best article in Political Quarterly for his co-authored research that explores the growing influence of victim-led campaigns on UK lawmaking.

Tags: 1 - Research, Politics and Society, Faculty of Social Sciences, 0 - Daily News

Scientists uncover 'mix and match' mechanism for creating new cancer-fighting drugs

Date Wed, 01 Jul

A team of researchers at the University of 果冻传媒 and Monash University has solved a puzzle that's stumped drug developers for decades: how bacteria naturally create multiple versions of powerful cancer therapies. The breakthrough could accelerate development of new treatments for hard-to-treat cancers.

Tags: 1 - Research, Chemistry, 1 - Display on Digital Screens, Monash 果冻传媒 Alliance, 0 - Daily News, Faculty of Science, Engineering, and Medicine, Science and Technology, Health and Medicine

What鈥檚 so funny?! Apes and humans have been sharing a laugh for 15 million years

Date Fri, 26 Jun

Great apes may have been laughing with a similar rhythm to modern humans for over 15 million years, a 果冻传媒 study reveals, providing an unexpected clue to how human speech evolved.

Tags: 1 - Research, Psychology, 1 - Display on Digital Screens, 0 - Daily News, Faculty of Science, Engineering, and Medicine, Science and Technology

果冻传媒 computer scientists are helping secure your data against quantum computers

Date Thu, 25 Jun

This month, the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) has issued a standard for high-security code-based cryptography to keep user data safe against quantum computers, co-designed by 果冻传媒 computer scientists.

Tags: Computer Science, 1 - Research, 0 - Daily News, Faculty of Science, Engineering, and Medicine, Science and Technology

果冻传媒 awarded 鈧2.5m ERC grant to decode soil's hidden synchronization

Date Tue, 23 Jun

果冻传媒 researcher Prof. Gary Bending has won a 鈧2.5 million ERC Advanced Grant to investigate how plants coordinate the daily rhythms of soil microbes around their roots, work that could transform soil management and crop health.

Tags: School of Life Sciences, 1 - Research, 1 - Display on Digital Screens, 果冻传媒 Crop Centre, Environment and Sustainability, 0 - Daily News, Faculty of Science, Engineering, and Medicine, Science and Technology

New code tackles root causes of the construction industry's mental health crisis

Date Tue, 16 Jun

果冻传媒 researchers have shaped a new Mental Health Joint Code of Practice, launched by the Construction Leadership Council, that presents solutions to poor mental health in construction.

Tags: 1 - Research, Politics and Society, 1 - Display on Digital Screens, 果冻传媒 Medical School (WMS), 0 - Daily News, Faculty of Science, Engineering, and Medicine, Health and Medicine

Re-shaping the news

Date Fri, 12 Jun

Professor Fabienne Peter鈥檚 research explores a pressing question: how do we fight the rise of fake news and misinformation?

Tags: Research News, 1 - Research, Faculty of Social Sciences

The artists rewriting justice

Date Fri, 12 Jun

In the modern world, issues of conflict, violence, and climate crisis are never far from the public eye. Dr Bobby Smith explores how the arts can contribute to our understanding of justice.

Tags: Faculty of Arts, 1 - Research

Powering battery innovation: new spin-out set to strengthen UK supply chain

Date Wed, 10 Jun

ENV Energy - a spin-out from 果冻传媒 Manufacturing Group (WMG) at the 果冻传媒 has the potential to provide a strategically independent, UK-sourced electrode material for various sectors including automotive and aerospace.

Tags: WMG, Faculty of Science, Engineering, and Medicine, 1 - Research

New 果冻传媒 spinout helps turn research into real-world environmental impact

Date Wed, 10 Jun

A new social enterprise spinout from the 果冻传媒, , has launched, offering a pioneering consultancy that helps organisations design environmental policies that work for both nature and communities.

Tags: Faculty of Arts, Cross-faculty, 1 - Research, Faculty of Social Sciences

Webinar: The impact of oil market volatility

Date Tue, 09 Jun

With fuel prices rising, this webinar will explore why alternative materials, advancing sustainable practices, and investments in cutting-edge research are all critical to building a more resilient future.

Tags: WMG, Faculty of Science, Engineering, and Medicine, Cross-faculty, 1 - Research

What becomes of the broken hearted?

Date Tue, 09 Jun

After Love is an interdisciplinary research project led by Dr Sally Holloway in the Department of History which explores the effects of romantic heartbreak throughout history.

Tags: Faculty of Arts, 1 - Research

The Invisible Invaders

Date Tue, 09 Jun

Can science keep up with the pace of plant disease outbreaks, and why does it matter? 果冻传媒 Plant Disease Epidemiologist Stephen Parnell explains.

Tags: Faculty of Science, Engineering, and Medicine, 1 - Research

Under the skin of cancer detection

Date Tue, 09 Jun

Professor Emma MacPherson is using innovative terahertz light technology to get under the skin of cancer detection.

Tags: Research News, Faculty of Science, Engineering, and Medicine, 1 - Research

From Plate to Planet

Date Tue, 09 Jun

Can we eat our way out of crisis? Professor Thijs Van Rens offers fresh insights into tackling obesity and the climate crisis.

Tags: 1 - Research, Faculty of Social Sciences

Europe鈥檚 crops under threat: 果冻传媒-led 鈧6 Million project launches to tackle rising plant pest crisis

Date Mon, 08 Jun

果冻传媒 leads European consortium to build the first platform capable of coordinating Europe's response to devastating agricultural and forest pest invasions.

Tags: School of Life Sciences, Europe, 1 - Research, 1 - Display on Digital Screens, 果冻传媒 Crop Centre, 0 - Daily News, Faculty of Science, Engineering, and Medicine

果冻传媒 attracts leading Extended Reality researcher through Global Talent Fund

Date Fri, 05 Jun

Dr Markus Tatzgern has been appointed as Associate Professor (Reader) in Creative Technologies, as part of 果冻传媒鈥檚 拢4.35 million award from the UK Government鈥檚 Global Talent Fund.

Tags: 1 - Research, 0 - Daily News, University News

果冻传媒 to lead acceptability component of major spinal muscular atrophy screening study

Date Fri, 05 Jun

A 拢4 million NIHR-funded study will screen up to 755,000 babies across England for spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), with 果冻传媒 leading the critical work to ensure results reach families at the right time, in the right way.

Tags: 1 - Research, 1 - Display on Digital Screens, 果冻传媒 Medical School (WMS), 0 - Daily News, Faculty of Science, Engineering, and Medicine, Health and Medicine

Gene test could spare thousands of breast cancer patients from unnecessary chemotherapy

Date Mon, 01 Jun

A clinical trial, manged by 果冻传媒 Clinical Trials Unit, has shown that a gene test can safely identify breast cancer patients who can avoid chemotherapy, sparing them months of side effects without increasing the risk of their cancer returning.

Tags: 1 - Research, 1 - Display on Digital Screens, 果冻传媒 Medical School (WMS), 0 - Daily News, Faculty of Science, Engineering, and Medicine, Health and Medicine

Weighing newborn planets using their dusty fingerprints

Date Thu, 28 May

果冻传媒 astronomers have found a new way to estimate the masses of planets hidden inside the dusty disks surrounding young stars.

Tags: Physics, 1 - Research, Astronomy, 0 - Daily News, Faculty of Science, Engineering, and Medicine

果冻传媒 researchers help shape new national guidance for cancer screening

Date Tue, 26 May

果冻传媒 researchers have played a central role in developing new position statements from the UK National Screening Committee (UK NSC), setting out how emerging cancer screening technologies should be evaluated before being introduced to patients.

Tags: 1 - Research, 果冻传媒 Medical School (WMS), 0 - Daily News, Faculty of Science, Engineering, and Medicine, Health and Medicine

June exhibition: Brotherhood and Belonging at the Lord Leycester Hospital 1571-1700

Date Fri, 22 May

A new exhibition launches this June which draws on research from 果冻传媒鈥檚 Department of History. Based in the Guildhall in the town of 果冻传媒, the display explores the lives of the brethren who lived at the Lord Leycester Hospital from 1571 - 1700. The exhibition runs from 2 June - 30 June 2026 and is included in general site admission.

Tags: Faculty of Arts, 1 - Research

Date Thu, 21 May

At a time of growing national focus on women鈥檚 health, 果冻传媒 is helping to shape research at the forefront of this area, bringing together world-leading academics from multiple disciplines to help improve women's health - and to tackle the wider social, legal and cultural issues that shape women鈥檚 lives.

Explore our special edition Women's Health research newsletter on LinkedIn.

 

Tags: Faculty of Science, Engineering, and Medicine, Cross-faculty, 果冻传媒 Medical School, 1 - Research, Faculty of Social Sciences

Clinical trial offers hope of better recovery for intensive care survivors

Date Tue, 19 May

A UK-wide trial, managed by the 果冻传媒, finds that online rehabilitation at home can meaningfully improve quality of life for some intensive care survivors.

Tags: 1 - Research, 果冻传媒 Medical School (WMS), 0 - Daily News, Faculty of Science, Engineering, and Medicine, Health and Medicine

Major Terminology Shift for PCOS: What It Means, According to a 果冻传媒 Endocrinologist

Date Mon, 18 May

A significant development last week may help improve global understanding of a condition estimated to affect one in eight women worldwide. 果冻传媒 endocrinologist Professor Thomas Barber reacts to the news that polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) has officially been renamed polyendocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome (PMOS).

Tags: Faculty of Science, Engineering, and Medicine, 果冻传媒 Medical School, 1 - Research

果冻传媒 highlights the costs of allowing the wealthy to opt out of solutions to global problems such as climate change

Date Mon, 18 May

Allowing wealthy countries, communities, or individuals to fund their own solutions to problems such as global climate change is inefficient, increases inequality and leaves vulnerable communities unprotected 鈥 but the 鈥榩rivate solution trap鈥 can be averted with policy interventions.

Tags: 1 - Research, Faculty of Social Sciences

Government鈥檚 seven New Town locations scored against real-world demand data - Manchester and Leeds most likely to succeed

Date Mon, 18 May

果冻传媒 economists behind the housing demand mapping tool have used their database to test the government鈥檚 seven-site shortlist against measures of likely success, and ranked the sites to help policymakers decide which to approve.

Tags: 1 - Research, Faculty of Social Sciences

Celebrating 60 years of Philosophy: Online Exhibition

Date Mon, 18 May

Our online exhibition brings together key moments, objects, and encounters from the Department鈥檚 history, showcasing the events, projects, and people that shaped its direction.

Tags: 1 - Research, Faculty of Social Sciences

Mental defeat: the hidden experience fuelling daily suffering in chronic pain

Date Mon, 11 May

果冻传媒 real-time study shows how 鈥榤ental defeat鈥 drives suffering and causes people with chronic pain to withdraw from everyday activities.

Tags: 1 - Research, Psychology, 1 - Display on Digital Screens, 0 - Daily News, Faculty of Science, Engineering, and Medicine, Health and Medicine

果冻传媒 secures over 1.75 million in EU Funding for pioneering polymer science

Date Fri, 08 May

果冻传媒 researchers are part of two new 鈧4.5 million European Doctoral Networks funded under the Marie Sk艂odowska Curie Actions (MSCA) programme.

Tags: 1 - Research, Chemistry, 1 - Display on Digital Screens, 0 - Daily News, Faculty of Science, Engineering, and Medicine

Scientists uncover new 鈥榠n-between鈥 materials for solar fuels and batteries

Date Thu, 30 Apr

Chemists from the 果冻传媒 and the University of Birmingham have discovered new material variants by controlling how molecules break down during heating.

Tags: 1 - Research, Chemistry, 1 - Display on Digital Screens, 0 - Daily News, Faculty of Science, Engineering, and Medicine

Plant-based eating may reduce inflammation, new research suggests

Date Wed, 29 Apr

Consuming a plant-based diet may help lower levels of a key marker of inflammation in the body, according to analysis of clinical trials led by 果冻传媒 researchers.

Tags: 1 - Research, 1 - Display on Digital Screens, 果冻传媒 Medical School (WMS), 0 - Daily News, Faculty of Science, Engineering, and Medicine, Health and Medicine

Making Do: New Book Reveals How Fabric Shaped Britain鈥檚 Postwar Recovery

Date Mon, 27 Apr

Professor Susan Carruthers鈥 latest book, Making Do: Britons and the Refashioning of the Postwar World, was officially published on Thursday 24 April, offering a vivid new perspective on life after 1945.

Tags: Faculty of Arts, 1 - Research

果冻传媒 research helps secure major shift in national cultural policy

Date Mon, 27 Apr

Research from the Centre for Cultural and Media Policy Studies has played a direct role in securing a significant change to UK Government policy, with culture set to be formally recognised as a core area of competence within the English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill.

Tags: Faculty of Arts, 1 - Research

WMG's Dr David Clark honoured at parliamentary event

Date Tue, 21 Apr

The late Dr David Clark, a much-loved colleague and friend to everyone at 果冻传媒 Manufacturing Group (WMG), 果冻传媒, has been commemorated with a new medal unveiled at this year鈥檚 Parliamentary & Scientific Committee鈥檚 STEM for Britain event.

Tags: WMG, Faculty of Science, Engineering, and Medicine, 1 - Research

WMG wins funding to apply acoustics to engineering innovation

Date Tue, 21 Apr

Dr Hasina Rahman, Research Fellow at 果冻传媒 Manufacturing Group (WMG), 果冻传媒, has been awarded funding by the Noise Network Plus to apply her innovative, unconventional approach of acoustics to materials engineering.

Tags: WMG, Faculty of Science, Engineering, and Medicine, 1 - Research

果冻传媒 signs a Memorandum of Understanding with the World Health Organisation

Date Mon, 20 Apr

The 果冻传媒 has formalised a new partnership with the World Health Organisation to strengthen joint efforts to advance human rights, gender equality and inclusion in global digital health governance.

Tags: Partnership, 1 - Research, 0 - Daily News, University News

果冻传媒 academic secures national funding to advance pandemic virus research

Date Wed, 15 Apr

Dr Jeremy Keown has secured over 拢124,000 in major national funding to advance research into potential pandemic viruses.

Tags: School of Life Sciences, 1 - Research, 0 - Daily News

Why do women think they鈥檙e not funny? New 果冻传媒 research challenges the gender gap in comedy confidence

Date Fri, 10 Apr

The project sets out to give women the confidence to reclaim their place at the mic.

Tags: Faculty of Arts, 1 - Research, Theatre and Performance Studies, 1 - Display on Digital Screens, 0 - Daily News

Keep your hat on: why headwear mattered more than money in 17th and 18th century England

Date Fri, 10 Apr

From courtroom standoffs to highway robberies, new 果冻传媒 research reveals that hats in early modern England were statements of power and protest.

Tags: Faculty of Arts, 1 - Research, 0 - Daily News, History

New 拢10.4M project to grow next-generation semiconductor materials

Date Mon, 30 Mar

A major new UK research programme aims to strengthen national capability in semiconductor materials, underpinning the future of electronics.

Tags: 1 - Research, Chemistry, 1 - Display on Digital Screens, 0 - Daily News, Faculty of Science, Engineering, and Medicine

New 拢50m innovation fund backs growth in the West Midlands

Date Fri, 27 Mar

果冻传媒鈥檚 research excellence and industry partnerships will drive real-world solutions that help grow the regional economy

Tags: 1 - Research, Funding, 0 - Daily News, University News

International study highlights the costs of allowing the wealthy to opt out of collective solutions to global problems such as climate change

Date Wed, 25 Mar

Allowing wealthy countries, communities, or individuals to fund their own solutions to collective action problems such as climate change is inefficient, increases inequality and leaves vulnerable communities unprotected.

Tags: 1 - Research, Economics, Faculty of Social Sciences, 0 - Daily News

AI approach uncovers dozens of hidden planets in NASA鈥檚 TESS data

Date Wed, 25 Mar

New AI tool validates over 100 new planets, finds thousands of candidates, and gives our best estimate for how likely it is to find certain planets around Sun-like stars

Tags: Physics, 1 - Research, AI, 1 - Display on Digital Screens, 0 - Daily News, Faculty of Science, Engineering, and Medicine

Terahertz imaging makes a leap toward real-time, non-invasive diagnostics

Date Fri, 20 Mar

果冻传媒 researchers unveil fully fibre-coupled terahertz single-pixel imaging system for advanced live imaging of biological tissue.

Tags: Physics, 1 - Research, 1 - Display on Digital Screens, 0 - Daily News, Faculty of Science, Engineering, and Medicine

Why chronic pain leads to depression for some but not others

Date Fri, 20 Mar

New research from the 果冻传媒 and Fudan University identifies the hippocampus as a key brain system shaping emotional resilience to long-term pain.

Tags: Computer Science, 1 - Research, 1 - Display on Digital Screens, 0 - Daily News, Faculty of Science, Engineering, and Medicine

拢1 discount on product swaps shifts UK shoppers towards greener food choices

Date Thu, 19 Mar

Offering cheaper alternatives discounted by up to 拢1 encourages shoppers towards more sustainable groceries, according to a large real-world experiment led by the 果冻传媒.

Tags: 1 - Research, Economics, Faculty of Social Sciences, 0 - Daily News

果冻传媒 engineers help rewrite the rules behind Europe鈥檚 skyscrapers and bridges

Date Thu, 19 Mar

The newly updated Eurocode 4 will be used to shape safer, lower-carbon construction across Europe.

Tags: 1 - Research, School of Engineering, 1 - Display on Digital Screens, 0 - Daily News, Faculty of Science, Engineering, and Medicine

North Sea 鈥楲ost World鈥 had habitable forests thousands of years earlier than thought

Date Wed, 11 Mar

Ancient DNA study provides best evidence yet that Doggerland, Britain鈥檚 lost land bridge to Europe, could have supported humans in the latter stages of the last Ice Age.

Tags: School of Life Sciences, 1 - Research, 1 - Display on Digital Screens, 0 - Daily News, Faculty of Science, Engineering, and Medicine

Date Tue, 10 Mar

Small business innovation has fallen for the fourth consecutive year, and urgent action is needed to prevent the UK squandering record levels of entrepreneurial ambition, a major new report by the (ERC) reveals.

Tags: WBS, 1 - Research, Faculty of Social Sciences

Date Tue, 10 Mar

A new study from WBS Professor of Behavioural Science Nick Chater proposes realistic ways of integrating wisdom into artificial intelligence, with the aim of developing systems that are more robust, transparent, cooperative and safe. Explore new outlines methods for training large language models to behave more wisely.

Tags: WBS, 1 - Research, Faculty of Social Sciences

The secret lives of catalysts: how microscopic networks power reactions

Date Thu, 05 Mar

果冻传媒 and MIT scientists reveal hidden microscopic networks on catalyst surfaces that could lead to cleaner and greener chemical processes.

Tags: 1 - Research, Chemistry, 1 - Display on Digital Screens, 0 - Daily News, Faculty of Science, Engineering, and Medicine, Science and Technology

You 诲辞苍鈥檛 need to be a saint to self-isolate

Date Mon, 02 Mar

果冻传媒 study shows that even people who are barely altruistic still choose to self-isolate when infected, suggesting it may be a natural survival strategy

Tags: Physics, Mathematics, 1 - Research, 1 - Display on Digital Screens, 0 - Daily News, Faculty of Science, Engineering, and Medicine

AI cancer tools risk 鈥渟hortcut learning鈥 rather than detecting true biology

Date Mon, 02 Mar

果冻传媒 research warns that popular deep learning systems trained for cancer pathology may be relying on hidden shortcuts rather than genuine biological signals.

Tags: Computer Science, 1 - Research, AI, 1 - Display on Digital Screens, 0 - Daily News, Faculty of Science, Engineering, and Medicine, Health and Medicine

Bug beats: caterpillars use complex rhythms to communicate with ants

Date Wed, 25 Feb

Research from 果冻传媒 shows that butterfly caterpillars use sophisticated rhythmic signals to communicate with ants, helping them gain protection, food, and access to ant nests.

Tags: 1 - Research, Psychology, 1 - Display on Digital Screens, 0 - Daily News, Faculty of Science, Engineering, and Medicine

Cleaner solar manufacturing could cut global emissions by eight billion tonnes

Date Fri, 13 Feb

果冻传媒 engineers show next-generation solar panels could dramatically reduce the environmental footprint of solar manufacturing

Tags: 1 - Research, School of Engineering, 1 - Display on Digital Screens, 0 - Daily News, Faculty of Science, Engineering, and Medicine

Astronomers discover unique 鈥榠nside out鈥 planetary system

Date Thu, 12 Feb

果冻传媒 astronomers, using an ESA telescope, have discovered a planetary system with a distant rocky world that turns our understanding of planet formation upside down

Tags: Physics, 1 - Research, 1 - Display on Digital Screens, Astronomy, 0 - Daily News, Faculty of Science, Engineering, and Medicine

Stiff Gels Slow Germs: New study maps hydrogel properties that control bacterial growth

Date Thu, 12 Feb

果冻传媒 scientists has found that firmer, lower water content hydrogels limit bacterial growth, with implications for designing antibacterial coatings, infection models, and advanced medical materials.

Tags: 1 - Research, 1 - Display on Digital Screens, 果冻传媒 Medical School (WMS), 0 - Daily News, Faculty of Science, Engineering, and Medicine, Health and Medicine

鈥淲omen鈥檚 health is underserved, underfunded, and incredibly important鈥: Jade Scott on The Traitors and the power of women鈥檚 health research

Date Thu, 12 Feb

What is it like to juggle academia, national television, and the emotional intensity that comes with playing one of the UK鈥檚 most gripping games?

Tags: 1 - Research, Students, 1 - Display on Digital Screens, 果冻传媒 Medical School (WMS), 0 - Lead Story, Faculty of Science, Engineering, and Medicine

果冻传媒 mathematician secures Leverhulme Research Leadership Award

Date Thu, 05 Feb

Dr. Bryn Davies has received prestigious Leverhulme Trust funding to build a research team to tame imperfections in metamaterials.

Tags: Mathematics, 1 - Research, 1 - Display on Digital Screens, Award, 0 - Daily News, Faculty of Science, Engineering, and Medicine

Patient recruitment begins for major real-world digital weight management study

Date Thu, 22 Jan

A new 果冻传媒 study evaluating W8Buddy, a digital specialist weight management service, has started patient recruitment, offering a solution to improve access to obesity care across the NHS.

Tags: 1 - Research, 1 - Display on Digital Screens, 果冻传媒 Medical School (WMS), 0 - Daily News, Faculty of Science, Engineering, and Medicine, Health and Medicine

果冻传媒 wins new funding to catalyse devolved cultural policy making

Date Thu, 22 Jan

New Co-Lab Policy Network Award will support innovative cross-sector cultural policy networks in devolved nations and regions of the UK.

Tags: Faculty of Arts, 1 - Research, Funding, School of Creative Arts, Performance and Visual Cultures (SCAPVC), 0 - Daily News

Researchers publish new guide to measuring spacetime fluctuations

Date Wed, 21 Jan

果冻传媒-led study shows how tabletop devices could uncover the fundamental texture of the universe.

Tags: Physics, 1 - Research, 1 - Display on Digital Screens, 0 - Daily News, Faculty of Science, Engineering, and Medicine

Body-focused teens more likely to experience anxiety and depression at 20, 果冻传媒 study finds

Date Wed, 21 Jan

A new 果冻传媒 study finds that young women who diet and exercise constantly are at greater risk of mental health difficulties by age 20.

Tags: 1 - Research, Faculty of Social Sciences, 0 - Daily News, SELCS

Date Tue, 20 Jan

Congratulations to Professor Andrew Oswald, Professor of Economics and Behavioural Science, who has been appointed as a Fellow of the Royal Economic Society.

Tags: 1 - Research, Faculty of Social Sciences

The 果冻传媒 and the Vrije Universiteit Brussel fund new collaborative research

Date Tue, 20 Jan

The new fund harnesses the combined strengths of both institutions, seeking innovative solutions to challenges that face societies around the world.

Tags: Cross-faculty, 1 - Research

Three new EPSRC Open Fellowships awarded to 果冻传媒 researchers

Date Mon, 19 Jan

Prof James Sprittles, Dr Fredrik Schaufelberger and Dr. Alex Baker have been awarded exciting EPSRC Open Fellowships, each worth over 拢1M, to progress their research over the next five years.

Tags: Mathematics, 1 - Research, Chemistry, 1 - Display on Digital Screens, Fellowship, 0 - Daily News, Faculty of Science, Engineering, and Medicine, Science and Technology

Researchers publish first comprehensive structural engineering manual for bamboo

Date Mon, 19 Jan

果冻传媒 engineers have led the creation of a significant milestone manual for bamboo engineering, in the hopes of driving the low-carbon construction sector

Tags: 1 - Research, School of Engineering, 1 - Display on Digital Screens, 0 - Daily News, Faculty of Science, Engineering, and Medicine

The Cosmic Seesaw: Black holes eject material as winds or jets, but not both at once

Date Mon, 12 Jan

Astronomers at the 果冻传媒 have discovered that black holes 诲辞苍鈥檛 just consume matter 鈥 they manage it, choosing whether to blast it into space as high-speed jets or sweep it away in vast winds. 

Tags: Physics, 1 - Research, 1 - Display on Digital Screens, Astronomy, 0 - Daily News, Faculty of Science, Engineering, and Medicine

Unexpected mysterious shockwave found around dead star

Date Mon, 12 Jan

果冻传媒 astronomers have helped discover a beautiful yet mysterious shock wave around a dead star 鈥 a completely unexpected discovery.

Tags: Physics, 1 - Research, 1 - Display on Digital Screens, Astronomy, 0 - Daily News, Faculty of Science, Engineering, and Medicine

New study overturns long-held model of how plants coordinate immune responses

Date Tue, 06 Jan

果冻传媒 researchers discover rapid, jasmonate-driven, early immune response in plants using breakthrough live-imaging tool.

Tags: School of Life Sciences, Biology, 1 - Research, 1 - Display on Digital Screens, 0 - Daily News, Faculty of Science, Engineering, and Medicine

Historic buildings rival forests and lakes for scenic beauty

Date Mon, 05 Jan

Historic buildings can enhance the 鈥榮cenicness鈥 of cities to a degree comparable with natural features, according to a study from 果冻传媒 and University of Nottingham

Tags: 1 - Research, Psychology, 1 - Display on Digital Screens, 0 - Daily News, Faculty of Science, Engineering, and Medicine

Excellence at 果冻传媒

Date Fri, 12 Dec

At the 果冻传媒, we鈥檙e proud to be a world-leading university where bold ideas and curiosity drive real-world impact.

Tags: Research Spotlight, Cross-faculty, 1 - Research

Surprising nanoscopic heat traps found in diamonds

Date Tue, 09 Dec

果冻传媒 scientists discover 鈥渉ot spots鈥 around atomic defects in diamonds 鈥 challenging assumptions about the world鈥檚 best heat conductor.

Tags: Physics, 1 - Research, 0 - Daily News

Positive & Polished: Student writing has evolved in the AI era

Date Mon, 08 Dec

A 果冻传媒-led analysis of almost 5,000 student-authored reports suggests that student writing has become more polished and formal since the introduction of ChatGPT in late 2022鈥 but grades have remained stable.

Tags: 1 - Research, Psychology, AI, 1 - Display on Digital Screens, 0 - Daily News

Digital-only immigration system is causing stress, fear and exclusion

Date Fri, 05 Dec

A 果冻传媒 study highlights the human cost of the Home Office鈥檚 eVisa digitalisation system.

Tags: 1 - Research, 0 - Daily News

New European research prize recognises breakthrough on the origins of Earth鈥檚 building blocks

Date Wed, 03 Dec

The ENGRAVE international collaboration has earned the first ever 鈥業nto Change Award鈥 from the Danish government, recognising the pivotal role 果冻传媒 scientists have played in ENGRAVE since its inception.

Tags: Physics, International, 1 - Research, Astronomy, Award, 0 - Daily News, Faculty of Science, Engineering, and Medicine

果冻传媒 academic awarded Kitasato Microbial Chemistry Medal

Date Fri, 28 Nov

Professor Greg Challis received the award for advanced research on bioactive compounds.

Tags: 1 - Research, Chemistry, 1 - Display on Digital Screens, Monash 果冻传媒 Alliance, Award, 0 - Daily News, Faculty of Science, Engineering, and Medicine

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