Historian secures prestigious prize to launch long-term research project on British anti-slavery
The global history of the British anti-slavery movement is to be the focus of a new and long-term research project...
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From square to cube: AI hardware processes data in higher dimensions
In a paper published today in Nature Photonics, researchers from the University of Oxford, along with collaborators from the Universities...
Cut emissions and improve farming to protect wilderness
Humanity must cut carbon emissions and use farmland more efficiently to protect our planet’s remaining wilderness, new research shows. Climate...
Refugee legal reforms will have a disproportionate impact on sexually diverse asylum claimants, study warns
Refugee legal reforms will have a disproportionate impact on sexually diverse claimants, academics have warned. Researchers have said the Nationality...
World may have crossed solar power ‘tipping point’
The world may have crossed a “tipping point” that will inevitably make solar power our main source of energy, new...
Ocean circulation, ice melt and increasing tourism could all be contributing to Arctic microplastics
Scientists measured microplastic concentrations in the highly productive Barents Sea and suggest that ocean circulation, ice melt, tourism, inadequate waste...
Drifting crustaceans could hold key to climate change
The vast quantity of tiny animals in the global ocean could play a vital role in slowing climate change, scientists...
Brexit having a negative impact on business – new survey suggests
Only a small number of businesspeople who voted Brexit now consider Brexit an “economic price worth paying”, a new survey...
Food Trainer app helping people cut down on potentially addictive ultra processed foods
An app created by the University of Exeter could help people reduce the amount of potentially harmful ultra processed foods...