Featured Research: Sustainability

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New strategies for talking to the public about climate change

Sometimes an emotive message has more impact than a clear, logical one. In the context of climate change, emotive messages even convince climate change deniers of the benefits of mitigation, particularly those measures that promote economic and scientific development or social cohesion.

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Ancient giants reveal the realities of climate change

Climate change has been the subject of much debate in recent years, with arguments raging across the globe about what the real causes behind the changes that we are seeing on our planet are.

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Ancient giants reveal the realities of climate change

Climate change has been the subject of much debate in recent years, with arguments raging across the globe about what the real causes behind the changes that we are seeing on our planet are.

Stories

Empowering communities to beat malaria

Malaria is a deadly, infectious disease with a complex life cycle. So complex in fact that after many years of research, scientists have still not been able to come up with a definitive solution to eradicate the disease completely.

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Empowering communities to beat malaria

Malaria is a deadly, infectious disease with a complex life cycle. So complex in fact that after many years of research, scientists have still not been able to come up with a definitive solution to eradicate the disease completely.

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‘A hitchhikers guide to the galaxy of brain/body dialogues’

The title of Prof Millar’s lecture was ‘A hitchhiker’s guide to the galaxy of brain/body dialogues’. He spoke about peptide hormones that regulate all aspects of body functions, including growth, energy metabolism and appetite, water and salt balance, stress and reproduction. These hormones are the target for a vast array of drugs that have found application in treating a wide range of...