Monthly Archives: February 2012
New research links crop disease and climate change
There is currently considerable debate about both adaptation and mitigation of climate change in relation to controlling crop disease while maintaining food production. What should governments and the agricultural industry do to prepare for the impacts of climate change particularly … Continue reading
Students To Drug Screen Athletes for London 2012 Olympics
Research students from the University’s Health and Human Sciences Research Institute have been selected by GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) and trained by King’s College London to assist with the preparation of samples in the anti-doping laboratory for the London 2012 Olympic and … Continue reading
Smart Lab
Johann Siau, developer of the University’s Intelligent Home, and a team have just started work on a new Smart Laboratory to be opened in Autumn this year. Housing the latest smart technology, the laboratory will use various mobile devices, gesture … Continue reading
New super-Earth detected within the habitable zone of a nearby cool star
Guest post by Hugh Jones, Professor of Astronomy
I have been working as part of an international team of scientists that have discovered a potentially habitable super-Earth orbiting a nearby star. The planet’s host star is well-established to have a different makeup from that of our Sun, lacking the … Continue reading