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Exeter Uni ecologist launches crowdfunding to aid Dartmoor’s declining birds

by Evelyn Iwanek

A University of Exeter PhD researcher has begun a crowd-funding initiative to help expand bird conservation research. Sara Zonnevald, an ecologist at the University, has collaborated with the Dartmoor Upland Bird Nest Group to create a crowd-funding website that will help cover fieldwork expenses such as equipment and running costs. This fieldwork will be essential for […]

Lecture series line-up announced

by Owain Evans

E xeter research and innovation will be celebrated in a series of lectures starting next Tuesday. Beginning with a talk by Dr Darren Schreiber on his upcoming book Your Brain is Built for Politics, the series will cover topics as diverse as biophotonics, bad decision-making and child soldiers, before concluding on Tuesday 8 March with a […]

Exeter University leading project to combat aquaculture diseases

by Evelyn Iwanek

A new project led by the University of Exeter will combat aquaculture diseases across India, Bangladesh and Malawi. The BBSRC-Newton Fund Project, led by the University of Exeter and the Centre for the Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Sciences has been granted £1.97 million to reduce the impact of major diseases in aquaculture. Disease remains to […]

Uni research explains Christmas weight gain

by Emma Bessent

Research by the University of Exeter has concluded that it is an evolutionary impulse that causes us to eat more in winter-and starting your diet on New Years Day isn’t the best new years resolution. This joint study with Bristol University claims that in colder months, when natural supply of food is low and our […]

BINGO! Four new elements complete row on the Periodic Table

by Sophie Carr

The discovery of four new elements and the subsequent completion of the seventh row of the periodic table, has chemists all over the world excited. Back in 2011, we saw the discovery of elements 114 (flerovium) and 116 (livermorium), both in row seven. Now, on the 30th of December 2015 the elements 113, 115, 117 […]

Exeter academics make world’s best list

by Fiona Potigny

Six academics from the University of Exeter have earned a place on a prestigious list of the world’s most influential minds, which was published earlier this week. Inclusion on the Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Researchers list, which spans natural, biomedical and social sciences, represents a researcher’s ranking within the global top 1 per cent. Three […]

Be an MP and live longer, says Uni research

by Fiona Potigny

Long hours and high pressure decisions don’t seem to have done MPs too much bad – in fact, they’re living 28 per cent longer than their constituents, according to new research involving a University of Exeter PhD student. Conducted by John Dennis from the University Medical School and Dr Tim Crayford, chief medical advisor to […]

Climate change can erode mountains, study finds

by Hannah Butler

Mountains aren’t as static and unchangeable as previously thought – they actually evolve with the Earth’s climate, according to ground-breaking new research by a team including an Exeter academic. The University’s Dr Ian Bailey took part in an international study investigating how climate and tectonic forces affect mountains over time. The research showed that during […]

Exeter University scientists bTB study to help the British farming industry

by Rebecca Broad

A new study by scientists at the University of Exeter may help the British farming industry, which is struggling with the impacts of bovine Tuberculosis (bTB). The study recognises the “significant economic burden” of bTB and aims to “explore the potential for landscape management to contribute to bTB control.” Since 2002, half of British dairy […]

The new ‘Red Scare’: processed meat causes cancer

by A.HANSON-BRAY and Fiona Potigny

 J  ust in time for Halloween, there was a new scare about town: a ‘Red Scare’. Except this twenty-first century version is more sausages than socialists. According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), processed meats cause cancer, and red meat may do so too. Just 50g of the stuff each day – that’s two rashers […]

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