New project to ensure genetic diversity of UK lobster stocks
A new project will monitor hatchery-reared lobsters to ensure wild populations in UK waters remain genetically diverse. Lobsters are routinely...
Alex Morrison
Illusions are in the eye, not the mind
Numerous visual illusions are caused by limits in the way our eyes and visual neurones work – rather than more...
Light pollution confuses coastal woodlouse
Artificial night-time light confuses a colour-changing coastal woodlouse, new research shows. The sea slater is an inch-long woodlouse that lives...
More than 120 children at Penryn Campus Festival of Science
More than 120 primary schoolchildren attended the Festival of Science at the University of Exeter in Cornwall on Monday. Children...
‘Marine identity’ endorsed as part of UN Ocean Decade
New research into the concept of “marine identity” has been officially endorsed as part of the UN Ocean Decade, after...
Exeter students to attend Bonn Climate Change Conference
Three University of Exeter masters students will attend the Bonn Climate Change Conference. Sejal Agarwal, Amy Shaw and Madeleine Henderson...
Scientists want your view on watching nature through the window
Watching nature through the window might have many benefits – and researchers want you to share your view. To take...
Companies win awards for work with Exeter clean mobility centre
Two companies have won awards for their collaborative work with the University of Exeter’s Centre for Future Clean Mobility (CFCM)....
A just world on a safe planet: First study quantifying Earth System Boundaries
Humans are taking colossal risks with the future of civilisation and everything that lives on Earth, a new study published...