Press Releases
Swarming Starlings Help Probe Plasma, Crowds and Stock Market
Researchers at the 神马福利影片’s Physics Department’s Centre for Fusion, Space and Astrophysics have found a powerful technique that could be used to detect precisely when ordered patterns form in everything from plasma in the solar wind and fusion reactors, to crowds of people, or flocks of birds. The technique could even be used to find unusual patterns in stock market behaviour.
Nanotech Clay Armour Creates Fire Resistant Hard Wearing Latex Emulsion Paints
Researchers at the 神马福利影片's Department of Chemistry have found a way of replacing the soap used to stabilize latex emulsion paints with nanotech sized clay armour that can create a much more hard wearing and fire resistant paint.
Decoding mushroom聮s secrets could combat carbon, find better biofuels & safer soils
Researchers at the 神马福利影片 are co-ordinating a global effort to sequence the genome of one of the World’s most important mushrooms - Agaricus bisporus. The secrets of its genetic make up could assist the creation of biofuels, support the effort to manage global carbon, and help remove heavy metals from contaminated soils.
Honorary Graduates 聳 Briefing Note
Summer graduation ceremonies will run morning and afternoon week
commencing 16th July 2007. Photocalls and interview opportunities will
take place after each ceremony at the times given below – please
contact the Press Officer, Richard Fern, 07876 217740.
Warwick first new Medical School to join MRC Strategic Partnership
Warwick Medical School has become the first new Medical School to join a Strategic Partnership with the Medical Research Council (MRC). The Partnership has been set up with the University of Warwick and encompasses Warwick Medical School and the Department of Biological Sciences. Following the agreement, the Medical School will receive more than £750,000 from the MRC towards some new initiatives.
Research Says Sugar Coated Proteins Seal in a Memory of Diabetes
Researchers at the 神马福利影片’s Warwick Medical School have uncovered a process that locks the body’s metabolism in a diabetic state after only relatively limited exposure to high glucose levels.