Nottingham awarded funding for Super Resolution Microscope
December 20, 2013
The School of Life Science has received funding from The Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) for a Super Resolution Microscope (SRM), worth approximately £700,000. This funded equipment will be the first of its kind to be installed in the Midlands and is expected to be in use in April 2014. Much of the …
News from our scientists at Westminster
December 5, 2013
Professor Philip Moriarty and Dr Clare Burrage from Physics and Astronomy have been spending the week at Westminster. Check out the latest on Philip’s blog on physicsfocus.
Warming to the idea of shale gas
August 22, 2013
Is the British public is beginning to warm to the idea of shale gas? A report by experts at The University of Nottingham shows we are. This doesn’t mean shale gas is a wildly popular alternative to other forms of energy but opinion appears to be shifting. The research team, led by Professor Sarah O’Hara, …
Heston says yes, biscuits taste better when they are dunked
November 20, 2012
Food experts at The University of Nottingham have helped Heston Blumenthal scientifically answer a question that has bothered him since childhood — yes, chocolate biscuits do taste better after they’ve been dunked in tea. Now he wants to produce an academic paper on the subject. The team from the Division of Food Sciences in the …
Fellowship of Society of Biology for Visiting Professor Ben Mepham
August 21, 2012
Visiting Professor of Bioethics at Nottingham, Ben Mepham, has been elected a Fellow of the Society of Biology. The Society is the leading professional body representing the learned societies and other organisations comprising UK biosciences, providing the Government and other policy-makers with authoritative, independent and evidence-based opinion on the full range of life sciences. Election …
YouTube experiment to celebrate scientific hero
August 17, 2012
One of the fathers of modern chemistry and a band of award winning scientists from The University of Nottingham will come together on Monday 20 August for a YouTube experiment which will see 24 chemistry videos loaded onto the social media site over as many hours. The award winning Periodic Table of Videos website, presented …
A new element in the Periodic Table… called Nottingham!?
June 20, 2012
Two new elements have been added to the Periodic Table: Flerovium and Livermorium. And, of course, the University’s Periodic Table of Videos has made the addition of Livermorium the subject of their latest video. The discoveries were made at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California – and that’s where Livermorium gets its name from. But …
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