News tagged with: news, research
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£1.7million project enhances University’s expertise in electron microscopy
The University of Plymouth is investing more than £1.7million to enhance its world-leading research – and engagement with businesses – through electron microscopy.
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Professor receives national award for excellence in transplantation
Professor Matthew Cramp has won the Excellence in Transplantation Award as part of the 2021 UK Awards for Excellence in Organ and Tissue Donation and Transplantation.
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Plastic recycling results in rare metals being found in children’s toys and food packaging
Some of the planet’s rarest metals – used in the manufacture of smartphones and other electrical equipment – are increasingly being found in everyday consumer plastics, according to new research by the University of Plymouth.
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![<p>A local fisherman involved in the project out hauling fishing gear within the Lyme Bay and Torbay SAC (Credit Adam Rees, University of Plymouth)<br></p>]()
Managing crab and lobster catches could offer long-term benefits to fishermen and the environment
A study by the University of Plymouth has found that managing the density of crab and lobster pots at an optimum level increases the quality of catch, benefits the marine environment and makes the industry more sustainable in the long term
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Drugs used to treat HIV and flu can have detrimental impact on crops
Scientists led by the University of Plymouth found that lettuce plants exposed to a higher concentration of four commonly-used drugs could be more than a third smaller in biomass than those grown in a drug-free environment.
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Harpy Eagle (<i>Harpia-harpyja</i>) - Camino del Oleoducto, Parque Nacional Soberania, Panama. (Credit Mdf, CC BY-SA 3.0 <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/>, via Wikimedia Commons)</p>]()
Harpy eagles could be under greater threat than previously thought
Harpy eagles are considered by many to be among the planet’s most spectacular birds but new research led by the University of Plymouth suggests estimates of the species’ current distribution are potentially overestimating range size
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Study demonstrates reductions in CO₂ could boost the recovery of marine life
World-leading experts in ocean acidification and warming from the University of Plymouth and the University of Tsukuba say making meaningful reductions in CO₂ emissions could help marine life damaged by increasingly acidified oceans to recover.
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![<p>Dr Imogen Napper with Dr Anju Baroth, of the Wildlife Institute of India, who joined the expedition’s water team for a day of sediment and water sampling in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh<br></p>]()
Combined flows send up to 3 billion microplastics a day into Bay of Bengal
Led by the University of Plymouth, the study represents the first investigation of microplastic abundance, characteristics and seasonal variation along the Ganges River.
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Forgotten voices at the heart of new UK food research project
Dr Clare Pettinger, Lecturer in Public Health Dietetics at the University of Plymouth, is part of a new national project targeting disadvantaged communities left behind by the traditional UK food system
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University granted consent for iconic new engineering and design facility
The Babbage building, on the University of Plymouth’s main campus, will be enlarged and enhanced for the School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics and the School of Art, Design and Architecture.
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Researchers to investigate Quantum Computing for the music industry
The University is to lead a collaboration looking into the potentially game-changing impact that Quantum Computing could have upon the UK’s music industry
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Oliver Hanemann and his brain tumour research team in the John Bull laboratories.
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New 3D, 360-degree lab tour explores vital brain tumour research
Created by Brain Tumour Research, the tour explores the University's unique research into slow-growing tumours
