Ulster University students have been putting their design skills to the test thanks to the ‘Live Here Love Here’ Fashion Forever competition, in partnership with Keep Northern Ireland Beautiful. The competition, designed specifically for first year Ulster University Textile Art, Design and Fashion students, focuses on sustainable fashion and repurposing […]
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Antibody testing can be a powerful tool for tracking the spread of SARS-CoV2 infections, the virus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic. A group of scientists from EPFL, UNIGE and HUG have now developed a reliable and cheap antibody test that can analyze more than 1,000 samples at once and requires […]
Third year students from the Journalism BA Honours course concluded their final project, working on the website Voice of London, with an awards ceremony. For their final project, the students ran their own live news website throughout semester one, where they produced a variety of content in a range of […]
Climate change is gradually changing the conditions of fish farming in the Czech Republic. Rising summer water temperatures will be deadly for some species in the coming decades. Globally, fish production is growing at a rate of about 4% per year. Increasing demand, with stagnant catches from classic ponds, is to […]
On April 12th 1961, Yuri Gagarin became the first human to orbit the Earth, opening a new chapter of human endeavour in outer space. Modern science in Russia is developing rapidly. In the last few months Russian scientists have launched the world’s most powerful neutron reactor, organised dozens of marine […]
The RSE (Royal Society of Edinburgh), Scotland’s national academy, has revealed its newly selected 2021 Fellows and five of these have been awarded to Heriot-Watt Professors. Professor John Ludden CBE, RAS, AE, Bicentennial Research Professor at The Lyell Centre, Professor Heather McGregor, Executive Dean, Edinburgh Business School, Professor Stuart Macgregor at the Institute of Chemical Sciences, Professor […]
When it comes to debris avalanches and mudslides, there is usually very little warning. Using seismic monitoring and machine learning, researchers from ETH Zurich and WSL have developed an alarm system that can provide early warning of debris flows at Illgraben. Debris flows are a mixture of boulders, sediments and […]
The successful partnership the Living Lab in Ageing & Long-Term Care is being expanded. Having been joined by care organisations De Zorggroep, Proteion and Stichting Land van Horne in north and central Limburg, the partnership now covers the entire province. Initiated by Maastricht University to promote improved and innovative care […]
For several years in a row, heat and drought records have followed one another. Our summers are getting hotter and drier, and we are increasingly affected by these extreme weather events. You’ve probably noticed it in your garden: dry patches appear in the lawn, or trees lose their leaves prematurely […]
The Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) has signed agreements to deliver as many as one million COVID-19 test kits to DTU, the Technical University of Denmark, and APS LABS, an Indian biotech company. “It is very positive that this technology can now also be useful internationally,” says Bent […]
