University College London - The main attraction
A new method to increase the capacity of cells to repair injured tissue has been hailed a success by scientists at University College London. The technique uses microscopic magnetic particles tagged...
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Aberystwyth, Bangor, Cardiff and Swansea - Welsh partnerships
A new research institute for visual computing has been set up to strengthen research partnerships between computer science departments at Welsh universities. Visual computing includes the production...
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University of Liverpool - Life on Mars
A rare first edition of an influential science fiction novel set on Mars has been acquired by the Science Fiction Foundation Collection at the University of Liverpool. The book, Lieut. Gullivar Jones...
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Heriot-Watt University - Growing pains
Heriot-Watt University has appointed software management consultancy Rocela to help redesign its information technology system to cope with a planned expansion of research projects. The university's...
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Teesside University - On-side
Short business courses have been designed by Teesside University to help the staff of Middlesbrough Football Club's Enterprise Academy, which teaches gifted but socially excluded teenagers from Tees...
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Roehampton University - Listen up
Staff and students at Roehampton University have launched the first interactive audiovisual service to connect the poverty-stricken Saharawi refugees in south-western Algeria to the rest of the world...
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Birmingham City University - From strength to strength
An extra £3 million is to be invested in enhancing research at Birmingam City University. The funding, spread across three years, comes on top of an existing £10 million pledge being used to expand...
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Nottingham Trent University - Onward and upward
The landmark work of the 16th-century British travel editor, Richard Hakluyt, is to be republished as part of an ambitious project co-led by Nottingham Trent University. The medieval geographer, who...
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University of Sheffield - Brain cell breakthrough
A new lead for treatments of Parkinson's disease has been discovered by scientists at the University of Sheffield. A study identified a pathway inside nerve cells that could be stimulated to protect...
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University of Cardiff - Wrong diagnosis
The School of Medicine at the University of Cardiff has apologised after it wrongly told four students they had passed their final exams and qualified as doctors. The four, who had taken up hospital...
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University of Nottingham - Studio slump
The once-pioneering UK recording studio sector is dying, largely thanks to the destabilising economic effect of software. Research at the University of Nottingham suggests that the progressive...
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University of Edinburgh - Structure overhaul
The academic governance structure at the University of Edinburgh has been overhauled. It has set up new committees to replace the old academic policy, senatus undergraduate, postgraduate studies and...
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Tip of the iceberg
A gigantic glacier, twice the size of Scotland, is thinning at record pace, scientists have warned. The Pine Island Glacier in West Antarctica is shrinking four times as fast as it was ten years ago...
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Original features
Standing at the entrance to the Queensgate Campus, the University of Huddersfield's new creative arts building opened last year and has already established itself as a landmark on the ring road...
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From the sublime to the sustainable, and back again
Some have odd titles, but many debates at the RGS conference are deadly serious, writes Matthew Reisz