News tagged with: research
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![Fisherman Aubrey Banfield potting in Lyme Bay (Credit Saeed Rashid)]()
Limits on pot fishing can result in win-win for fishermen and marine wildlife
A report by the Â鶹´«Ã½, funded by Defra and the Blue Marine Foundation, has found that in areas of low potting intensity the industry was operating in a way that had little impact on seabed species or economically-important shellfish
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Hospital gowns retain superbugs even after disinfectant use, research shows
The study showed that C difficile - a bacteria that can cause severe diarrhoea, bowel complications and even death - is surviving on surgical gowns despite disinfectant use
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Seeing greenery linked to less intense and frequent cravings
A study led by the Â鶹´«Ã½ is the first to demonstrate that passive exposure to nearby greenspace is linked to both lower frequencies and strengths of craving.
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Responding to the climate emergency
Professor Judith Petts CBE, Vice-Chancellor of the Â鶹´«Ã½, believes universities should play a leading role in addressing the challenges of climate change.
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University listed among the world’s best for engineering research and impact
The Â鶹´«Ã½ is eighth in the world, and the top UK university, for Marine and Ocean Engineering in the ShanghaiRanking Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2019.
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Evolution of life in the ocean changed 170 million years ago
Research led by academics from the Â鶹´«Ã½ suggests the ocean as we understand it today was shaped by a global evolutionary regime shift around 170 million years ago.
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Mantle cell lymphoma patients living longer thanks to specialist clinic
Â鶹´«Ã½ patients are shown to be living, on average, twice as long as the general population in new work by University researchers Professor Simon Rule and Dr Rory McCulloch - clinicians in the Haematology team at University Hospitals Â鶹´«Ã½ NHS Trust
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Toxic substances found in the glass and decoration of alcoholic beverage bottles
Researchers at the Â鶹´«Ã½ analysed both the glass and enamelled decorations on a variety of clear and coloured bottles readily available in shops and supermarkets
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Psychiatry profession ‘must make itself more appealing to state educated non-whites’, new study suggests
Figures show doctors are more likely to apply for psychiatry training if they are older, white and privately educated with below average performance at medical school.
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Research aims to enhance understanding of changes in polar sea ice
Professor Simon Belt from the Â鶹´«Ã½ is jointly coordinating a study to develop the first ever proxy for reconstructing past changes to transmitted light through sea ice
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Stresses from past earthquakes explain location of seismic events
A study published in Nature Communications and led by Dr Zoë Mildon, Lecturer in Earth Sciences at the Â鶹´«Ã½, could go some way to explaining both historical and modern series of earthquakes
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Research highlighted in report celebrating outstanding business collaborations
The work of Â鶹´«Ã½ robotics lecturer Dr Martin Stoelen, and his spinout company Fieldwork Robotics, is highlighted in the 2019 State of the Relationship Report written by the National Centre for Universities and Business
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