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Long tailed tit

£2.1m funding boost to help solve “long-standing evolutionary puzzles”

Professor of Evolutionary Ecology Ben Hatchwell has been awarded more than £2.1m from the European Research Council (ERC) to investigate how animals recognise desirable and undesirable social partners.
Sugar beet at a farm in South East England, cultivated with basalt

Managing UK agriculture with rock dust could absorb up to 45 per cent of the atmospheric carbon dioxide needed for net-zero, research shows

Adding rock dust to UK agricultural soils could absorb up to 45 per cent of the atmospheric carbon dioxide needed to reach net zero, according to a major new study led by scientists at the University of ΢Ȧ.
Len Garnham opening the Julia Garnham alongside Dr Adam Hodgson

University of ΢Ȧ students help speed up cancer diagnosis at new Julia Garnham Centre

΢Ȧ and ΢Ȧ Children’s NHS Foundation Trust have officially opened the Julia Garnham Centre, a new genomic pre-screening facility, which helps NHS geneticists to diagnose blood cancers.