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Transforming marine biodiversity discovery and monitoring

Published
10 September 2021
Categories
Global | Environment

A new system for sampling fragments of DNA from marine organisms drifting in the ocean is set to create new opportunities for research into biodiversity and ways of supporting conservation activities.

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Harvest festival at inner city youth farm

Published
9 September 2021
Categories
Health | Society & Politics | Environment

Young volunteers are giving away an abundance of fresh vegetables they have grown themselves at an urban farm in Harehills. 

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Taste cells can control a whole animal’s foraging

Published
9 September 2021
Categories
Technology | Science

Neuroscientists have developed a computer model to explain how a nematode worm searches for food, revealing that single brain cells can both sense the environment and control foraging strategy.

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Forest fires linked to tens of thousands of avoidable deaths

Published
2 September 2021
Categories
Science | Health | Global | Environment

Setting fire to forest and agricultural land in Southeast Asia to prepare it for cultivation or grazing contributes to an estimated 59,000 premature deaths a year, say scientists.

Professor Anne Neville

Honour for ‘outstanding engineering research’

Published
24 August 2021
Categories
Science | Working with business | Technology

The Royal Society - the UK’s leading scientific academy - has awarded its prestigious Clifford Patterson Medal and Lecture to an academic who had to cut short her career after becoming terminally ill.

CPAP breathing dvice

Covid breathing aid - 'safe and well tolerated'

Published
24 August 2021
Categories
Global | Health | Technology | Coronavirus

A simple electrical fan is the key component of a low-cost, easy-to-use breathing-support device designed to cope with the surge in COVID-19 cases in low to middle income countries.

Continental arc volcano in the Kamchatka Peninsula, Russian Far East.

Volcanic safety valve for Earth’s long-term climate

Published
24 August 2021
Categories
Global | Environment

Extensive chains of volcanoes have been responsible for both emitting and then removing atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2), stabilising temperatures at Earth’s surface.

A scientist looking at slides through a microscope

Predicting prognosis in rare bone cancer

Published
19 August 2021
Categories
Science | Health

New research has revealed a way to help identify which patients with an aggressive type of bone cancer are least likely to be cured by current standard treatment.

Rows of empty seats in a sports stadium

How empty stadiums affected football during pandemic

Published
13 August 2021
Categories
Coronavirus | Science

Playing professional football games in empty stadiums had a hugely negative effect on the success of home teams, with home advantage almost halved, new research shows.