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In partnership with the University of Cape Town’s (UCT) Institute for the Creative Arts (ICA), Infecting the City – South Africa’s longest-running public arts festival – is back for its 12th edition, taking place from 8 May to 30 June…

A novel technique for studying vortices in quantum fluids has been developed by Lancaster physicists.Andrew Guthrie, Sergey Kafanov, Theo Noble, Yuri Pashkin, George Pickett and Viktor Tsepelin, in collaboration with scientists from…

Lancaster University Management School (LUMS) has opened the doors of its brand-new £24m building which will provide a creative and collaborative space for students, staff and partners.The extension to the Management School, named the…

Conservation efforts in Kenya, and around the world, have been hindered by structural economic processes such as debt and austerity, further contributing to the decline of species such as rhinosNew research examining the major causes of…

Micropollutants such as steroid hormones pollute drinking water around the world and, even in the smallest quantities, pose a considerable risk to human health and the environment. Well-scalable technologies for water treatment that…

All over the world, humans leave their “footprints” on the surface of the land. These land use changes play an important role in nutrition, climate and biodiversity. Scientists from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) have…

Touchscreens are notoriously difficult to type on. Since we can’t feel the keys, we rely on the sense of sight to move our fingers to the right places and check for errors, a combination of efforts we can’t pull off at the same time. To…

When the first descriptions of knitting and crochet were published in Swedish, in the mid-19th century, such handiwork was described as the finest of all feminine handicrafts, for the benefit and pleasure alike of the trend-conscious,…

Chronic kidney disease affects the lives of millions of people. It’s a condition marked by the loss of several key kidney functions such as removing toxins from the blood. To compensate for this loss, a patient can undergo regular…

The leveling courses in mathematics for beginners were held during the month of March, while the accompanying tutorials for different courses are held throughout the semester.In total, 3,682 students took the Diagnostic Test on March 3…