UK must ‘act now’ or fall behind on land-based seafood farming
A new policy brief calls for national investment in world-leading aquaculture technology that could boost food security, create skilled jobs...
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Exeter partners with National Grid to accelerate clean energy innovation
National Grid Electricity Transmission (NGET) has announced innovation partnerships with ten UK universities – including the University of Exeter –...
Giant trees have no trouble pumping water to top branches
The world’s tallest tropical trees have no trouble pumping water to their topmost branches, new research reveals. Conventional scientific theory...
Calls for regulation of toxic period product chemicals at largest ever menstrual health conference
Academics are calling on the government to introduce regulation to ban toxic chemicals from period projects as they launch the...
A “Copper Economy” helps fungi and bacteria build better biofilms
Scientists have discovered that two common human pathogens can work together by managing copper in their shared environment - a...
Scientists discover guidance system for migratory songbirds
The scientific mystery of how songbirds from one population are able to join other members of their own population at...
Exeter biomedical researcher awarded Lister Prize funding of £300k
A University of Exeter expert has been recognised as an ‘outstanding early career biomedical researcher’ after he was selected as...
The Advanced Research and Invention Agency to fund pioneering cohort of research students at the University of Exeter, Cornwall
A cohort of 20 postgraduate researchers will embark on a pioneering new Masters by Research (MbyRes) on ‘Engineering Ecosystem Resilience’...
Study investigates mystery of Arabian Sea humpback whales
A new study explores the mysterious behaviour of the Arabian Sea’s humpback whales – the only humpbacks not thought to...