News tagged with: research
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New fund to remember local businessman who died from brain tumour
The Roger Harris Fund will support the leading work at the Â鶹´«Ã½â€™s Brain Tumour Research Centre of Excellence
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Scientists use a blender to reveal what’s in our smartphones
Scientists at the Â鶹´«Ã½ blended an entire smartphone to dust before conducting a chemical analysis of the dissolved results to demonstrate why we should all take a keener interest in what is contained within everyday electrical items.
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University scientists contribute to international report on microplastic risk
Scientists from the Â鶹´«Ã½ have contributed to a major European report summarising the current science on risks to humans and environment posed by microplastics
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‘A gift from the city to itself’ – study creates a blueprint for city marine parks
Researchers from the Â鶹´«Ã½, writing in Marine Policy, have detailed how other cities – in both developed and developing countries across the world – can follow in Â鶹´«Ã½'s footsteps by creating a Marine Park.
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Scientists help secure Government inquiry into impact of funding policy on diversity
Scientists from the Â鶹´«Ã½ have played a key role in securing a new Government inquiry into the impact of science funding policy on equality, diversity, inclusion and accessibility
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University leads first UK-wide assessment of changes in plankton community
Scientists led by the Â鶹´«Ã½ have completed the first ever assessment of how plankton communities are changing in coastal waters and shelf seas around the UK
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University spinout to play key role in research to protect US military from deadly viruses
The Vaccine Group, a Â鶹´«Ã½ spinout company, is to play a central role in a multi-million-dollar project to protect US military forces from Ebola, Lassa fever and other deadly zoonotic viruses
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Seeing through another’s eyes – research shows for the first time how we use others’ viewpoints to make decisions
New research by the Â鶹´«Ã½ has provided the first direct evidence that we often use other people’s eyes to see situations and make judgements.
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New study looking to prevent hospital admissions of older people in Cornwall
Helen Lyndon's study will develop, implement and test a nurse-led intervention to improve healthy living in older people with frailty.
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Report warns of isolation for coastal and rural schools
Policy makers, funding agencies, organisations and stakeholders should review their practices and funding mechanisms to support schools that are educationally isolated, according to a new report by the Â鶹´«Ã½ and Â鶹´«Ã½ Marjon University
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Exhibition sheds light on university research into native bees
Research by the Â鶹´«Ã½ and the B4 Project, which aims to develop increased understanding of the UK’s native dark honey bee, features in a major exhibition being staged at the world famous Eden Project
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Interdisciplinary approach the only way to address devastating effects of soil erosion
A study led by the Â鶹´«Ã½ has shown traditional pastoralist communities – such as the Maasai in East Africa – are abundantly aware climate change and intensive grazing are having a marked effect on the resources they rely on for survival
