Study News

Image shows a norovirus created from 13,000 separate electron microscope images. It shows bump-like protrusions on the surface of the protein shell around the virus.

Nature's lethal shape-shifter

Published
Wednesday 1st April, 2020
Categories
Health
Science
Health
Science

Every picture tells a story… none more so than this detailed visualisation of a strain of the norovirus.

Time-lapse photograph showing the blur of car lights as they travel at night through a high rise city.

Longer lives not dependent on increased energy use

Published
Friday 27th March, 2020
Categories
Science
Environment

Growing consumption of energy and fossil fuels over four decades did not play a significant role in increasing life expectancy across 70 countries.

This is an aerial image of an African village showing small buildings on the side of a sandy track. There is no sign of major infrastructure development.

Assessing the problem of poor sanitation

Published
Wednesday 25th March, 2020
Categories
Technology
Health

Experts are investigating a better way of measuring the number of people exposed to the health risks of poorly-managed sanitation systems.

The picture shows a sample of the advanced material being investigate d during muon spectroscopy

Driving forward energy-efficient electronics

Published
Monday 23rd March, 2020
Categories
Science
Technology

Scientists have made a breakthrough in the development of a new generation of electronics that will require less power and generate less heat.

The late summer sun sets over mountains and icebergs around Adelaide Island, Antarctic Peninsula, as twenty-four hour daylight gives way to the long polar night of winter

Six-fold increase in polar ice losses since the 1990s

Published
Wednesday 11th March, 2020
Categories
Global
Environment

Greenland and Antarctica are losing ice faster than in the 1990s and are both tracking the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s worst-case climate warming scenario.