‘Call to Action’ on agricultural diversity and feeding a ‘hotter’ world
December 4, 2015
On Monday, Paris will be the venue for a ‘call to action’ on agricultural diversification `to feed a hotter world’. It will be one of the many events taking place in Paris alongside the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. Scientists from Crops for the Future (CFF) and partners, including The University of Nottingham …
BBC’s new ‘Tomorrow’s Food’ series checks out Nottingham’s X-ray vision for the future of our crops
November 19, 2015
BBC One – 9pm Monday 23 November – Dara O Briain one of the presenters of ‘Tomorrow’s Food’ looks in on the Hounsfield Facility. The Hounsfield Facility at The University of Nottingham is home to three state of the art 3D microCT (X-ray) scanners and a multidisciplinary team of experts who use non-destructive technologies and …
Antimicrobial resistance – the search for new collaborative research projects
November 16, 2015
A total of £368,000 is on offer to University of Nottingham researchers who can help to devise interdisciplinary research projects into antimicrobial resistance (AMR). The World Health Organization (WHO) – staging its World Antibiotic Awareness Week this week – says this increasingly serious global threat to the effective treatment and prevention of a growing number of …
Celebrating the beauty of the earth through art
November 10, 2015
A community event at Sutton Bonington campus is to bring together art and science in a celebration of the natural world. The Vet School will be throwing open its doors to the public from 9am to 2pm today (Wednesday November 11) for the event taking place in The Atrium, which will be based on the theme …
Tram named after Nottingham’s Nobel Laureate and co-inventor of the MRI scanner
October 28, 2015
Nobel Laureate Sir Peter Mansfield, one of the world’s most celebrated scientists, has had a Nottingham tram named after him. Sir Peter was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2003 for his role in the development of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) – an honour he shared with Paul Lauterbur. Much of that …
Give it a tug and feel it grow
October 21, 2015
Children and teenagers discovered that you can’t always believe everything you see — or feel — when they were tricked by an illusion as part of a University research project. The study, led by academics in the School of Psychology, used a system called MIRAGE — real-time video capture of the participants’ hand and computer …
Celebrating the life of Ada Lovelace – the world’s first computer programmer
October 13, 2015
Sixty Symbols celebrates Ada Lovelace Day. Michael Merrifield, Professor and Astronomy and Dr Meghan Gray an observational extragalactic astronomer in the School of Physics and Astronomy at The University of Nottingham discuss the genius of Ada Lovelace – the world’s first computer programmer. This video by Brady Haran’s Sixty Symbols (‘cool videos about Physics and Astronomy’ …
Have your cake and rate it!
October 8, 2015
As 13 million of us sat down to watch the final of the Great British Bake Off 2015 last night two academics at The University of Nottingham were putting the final touches to a cake survey – all in the name of research of course! Khaled Bachour and Nils Jaeger in the School of Computer Science …
Blood Moon – Astronomy or Astrology?
September 26, 2015
This blog has been written by Michael Merrifield, Professor of Astronomy in the School of Physics and Astronomy at The University of Nottingham. One of the minor irritation in every astronomer’s life is in being introduced occasionally as an astrologer. In fact, there really shouldn’t be much confusion, as professional astrologers are far better paid …
Re-inventing our relationship with computers
September 24, 2015
University of Nottingham researchers are at the forefront of a new science that is finding ways in which computers can work intelligently in partnership with people. This could support the management of some of today’s most challenging situations, such as the aftermath of major disasters and smart energy systems. The five-year ORCHID project has looked …
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