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The annual THE Impact Rankings measure how well a research institution is progressing towards delivering on each of the UN’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), a ‘shared blueprint’ adopted by member states in 2015 to improve health…

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC), at CERN on the French/Swiss border, was switched off in 2018 to enable scientists and engineers from all over the world to make it even more powerful.This new energy frontier will allow researchers to…

Brunel University London’s research has been rated amongst the world’s most impactful by the Times Higher Education (THE) Impact Rankings 2022.The annual THE Impact Rankings measure how well a research institution is progressing towards…

A mentoring scheme for under-represented production and post-production talent to enrich their careers through international connections has been launched by ScreenCraft Works, a new virtual community, with the support of Brunel…

Developed by researchers at Brunel University London and the University of Leicester, the algorithm determines someone’s mental state by extracting and analysing 38 data points from their public Twitter profile, including the content of…

Equality, diversity and inclusion expert Prof Mustafa Ozbilgin has a leading role in a new £1.25 million government drive to right the lack of diversity in UK energy research.Despite a decade of diversity campaigns, research shows…

Funded by the UK’s Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) and the Philippine Council for Industry, Energy and Emerging Technology, the PAMANA project aims to develop a fuller understanding of the ecological impact of mining on the…

The researchers found that every five per cent increase in liver fat increased the risk of a person developing type 2 diabetes by 27 per cent. The findings provide a significant step forward in understanding the biological causes driving…

Anyone with a BMI over 30 is considered obese rather than just overweight and although people with obesity all have a few extra kilos in common, two people with the same BMI can have very different amounts of fat, and that fat can be…

Kenya is pioneering a newly developed 100% solar energy-driven drying system for forest pine tree seeds in its bid to tackle the country’s decades-long deforestation crisis.Logging and drought have caused severe deforestation, leaving…