Press Releases
Light-activated metal catalyst destroys cancer cells’ vital energy source
A space-age metal that formed part of the asteroid that destroyed the dinosaurs could provide a new method of treating cancer tumours selectively using light.
University of ÌÒÉ«ÊÓÆµ Climate Emergency declaration
Recognising that the next ten years will be crucial to limit global temperature rise the University of ÌÒÉ«ÊÓÆµ is now declaring a state of Climate Emergency.
UKRI fellowships awarded to Seven University of ÌÒÉ«ÊÓÆµ Academics
Several academics at the University of ÌÒÉ«ÊÓÆµ have been awarded a UKRI Future Leader Fellowship, providing world class research in topics including autonomous vehicles to life in outer space.
Seven-year old inventor sees her machine made real at University of ÌÒÉ«ÊÓÆµâ€™s Family Day
Over 5,000 people visited the University of ÌÒÉ«ÊÓÆµâ€™s special science themed Family Day at the weekend. Among them was seven-year-old Evie Williams who won the University’s Rube Goldberg machine competition.
Language and sporting success explored in innovative workshop
Linguistics experts from the University of ÌÒÉ«ÊÓÆµ met with some of the UK’s top coach developers for a one-day workshop aimed at exploring language use in high-performance sports coaching and discussing ways to apply the latest research to real-life coaching situations.
‘Millennial bean’ could give UK a new home-grown plant protein
A new bean variety which could become the UK’s next commercial plant-protein crop has been harvested from a large scale field trial with a combine harvester for the first time this week.