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Event - Medicine/Pharmacology - 6.06
Researchers solve 20-year puzzle of how heart regulates its beat
A 20-year puzzle as to how the heart regulates contraction appears to have been solved by researchers from the University of Bristol. The findings, published in the journal Biophysics, paves the way to improving our understanding of what goes wrong when the heart fails. - When the heart beats (contracts), the contractile machinery is switched on by an increase in calcium within the cell.

Event - 23.04
Evidence shows fish collaboration on hunting prey
Our results emphasise the importance of a more general evolutionary view of cognition - - Fish have the ability to communicate with each other while hunting their prey in ways that were previously known only for humans, great apes, and ravens, according to new research.

Event - Business/Economics - 22.01
Rumours abound: Scientists analyse global Twitter gossip around Higgs boson discovery
A model of the spread of gossip on Twitter prior to the Higgs boson discovery announcement has been developed by University of Birmingham computer scientists, according to research published on the online repository, ArXiv.

Event - Administration/Government - 20.02.2012
Sussex showcases academic research online
Sussex showcases academic research online
Sussex showcases academic research online - Months of work culminated this week with the launch of Sussex Research Online (SRO), which showcases the University's research to the external world and contains a record of all research ‘outputs' by academics at Sussex.

Earth Sciences - Event - 12.05.2010
Easter Island discovery sends archaeologists back to drawing board
Easter Island discovery sends archaeologists back to drawing board
Archaeologists have disproved the fifty-year-old theory underpinning our understanding of how the famous stone statues were moved around Easter Island. - Fieldwork led by researchers at University College London and The University of Manchester, has shown the remote Pacific island's ancient road system was primarily ceremonial and not solely built for transportation of the figures.

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Medicine/Pharmacology - Event - 6.06
Strategy for Francis Crick Institute unveiled at topping out ceremony
Sir Paul Nurse, Director of the Francis Crick Institute, unveiled the organisation's strategy today at a ceremony attended by senior government ministers and heads of the institute's founding partners, including UCL's President & Provost Professor Malcolm Grant.

Medicine/Pharmacology - Event - 7.03
£1.2m to research new treatments for Osteoarthritis
A team of academics from the University of Glasgow has been awarded a £1.2 million programme grant from Arthritis Research UK to bring together for the first time experts in bone, matrix, molecular and systems biology in a concerted effort to better understand osteoarthritis.

Event - 26.08.2011
Drawing ’integral’ to science learning
More should be done to encourage students to use their drawing skills in science education, researchers at The University of Nottingham say. - In a paper being published in Science this week, academics say that although producing visualisations is key to scientific thinking, pupils are often not encouraged to create their own drawings to develop and demonstrate their understanding.

Medicine/Pharmacology - Event - 15.08.2011
Scientists’ £3.9m project to develop gene therapy to prevent heart bypass graft failure
A team of scientists, cardiologists and heart surgeons from the University of Glasgow and the Golden Jubilee National Hospital has been awarded £3.9m for a study into how to prevent the failure of heart bypass grafts.

Environmental Sciences - Event - 8.11.2010
Pioneering research to reduce coastal flooding
Coastal areas could be saved from the misery of flooding thanks to groundbreaking new research from the University of Plymouth. - Academics have made a significant breakthrough in understanding the behaviour of mixed sand and shingle beaches in response to waves.

History/Archeology - Event - 16.04.2010
Major Leverhulme Medieval History grant awarded
Major Leverhulme Medieval History grant awarded
The Leverhulme Trust has awarded a large research project grant to King's, to be led by Dr Stephen Baxter, Reader in Medieval History. The grant of over £250,000 will enable King's to employ Dr Chris Lewis, one of the world's leading authorities on eleventh-century England, and to appoint a new post-doctoral research fellow, for the two-year project.

Literature/Linguistics - Event - 6.01.2010
Dutch Crossing: recognition for a journal examining a global influence
Dutch Crossing: recognition for a journal examining a global influence
Dutch Crossing: Journal of Low Countries Studies , a journal edited by UCL Dutch, has received an honourable mention at the 2009 International Awards of the Council of Editors of Learned Journals (CELJ).

History/Archeology - Event - 27.04.2009
Birmingham Academic Investigates Godly Love in America
A University of Birmingham academic has been awarded $150,000 (₤103,000) to investigate the concept of Godly love among Pentecostals in the United States. - Mark Cartledge, from the University's Centre for Pentecostal and Charismatic Studies at the School of Philosophy, Theology and Religion, has been awarded the two-year research grant by the John Templeton Flame of Love Award.

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