“Little robots”: behind the scenes at an academy school
11 April 2018New research from the Faculty of Education lifts the lid on an influential academy school, and finds an authoritarian system that reproduces race and class inequalities. ...
Human anti-cancer drugs could help treat transmissible cancers in Tasmanian devils
09 April 2018Transmissible cancers are incredibly rare in nature, yet have arisen in Tasmanian devils on at least two separate occasions. New research from the University of...
What makes a faster typist?
05 April 2018The largest-ever dataset on typing speeds and styles, based on 136 million keystrokes from 168,000 volunteers, finds that the fastest typists not only make fewer...
Online tool can measure individuals’ likelihood to fall for internet scams
04 April 2018Researchers have developed an online questionnaire which measures a range of personality traits to identify individuals who are more likely to fall victim to internet...
Research shows first land plants were parasitised by microbes
04 April 2018Relationship between plants and filamentous microbes not only dates back millions of years, but modern plants have maintained this ancient mechanism to accommodate and respond...
Researchers develop infrared-based system to read body language
03 April 2018Infrared sensors and a marshmallow offer researchers a new way to monitor and assess social interaction.
Citizen science experiment predicts massive toll of flu pandemic on the UK
22 March 2018How fast could a new flu epidemic spread? The results of the UK’s largest citizen science project of its kind ever attempted, carried out by...
Potassium gives perovskite-based solar cells an efficiency boost
21 March 2018A simple potassium solution could boost the efficiency of next-generation solar cells, by enabling them to convert more sunlight into electricity.
The body in miniature
20 March 2018The past few years has seen an explosion in the number of studies using organoids – so-called ‘mini organs’. While they can help scientists understand human biology...
Volcanic eruption influenced Iceland’s conversion to Christianity
19 March 2018Memories of the largest lava flood in the history of Iceland, recorded in an apocalyptic medieval poem, were used to drive the island’s conversion to...