The mathematics of avalanches
01 September 2007Each year more than a million avalanches fall worldwide, killing around a hundred people in the Alps alone. Can mathematical models be used to predict...
Research
Each year more than a million avalanches fall worldwide, killing around a hundred people in the Alps alone. Can mathematical models be used to predict...
Following recent funding from the Leverhulme Trust, a new programme of academic exchange kicks off in October in the Centre of African Studies, as the...
Pioneering research shines new light on our understanding of the way we see the world. Optical fibres have now been found to exist in vertebrate...
What does it mean to be a member of a family that is affected by a genetic disease? What is it like for a woman...
One of the biggest projects ever undertaken to identify genetic variants that predispose some people to certain diseases was begun in 2005, thanks to £9...
A passion for communicating the thrill of the dig and for uncovering evidence of lives long gone is what inspires archaeologist Dr Carenza Lewis. Her...
Conflict is inherent to the urban condition, yet only in some cities do contention and dissent erupt to unacceptable and destructive levels. How do contested...
A patent for an invention is granted by the state to an inventor, giving the inventor the right for a limited period to stop others...
The common view has been that parasitic infections cause disease and must be eliminated. But can we live without them?
Progressive loss in accommodative power by the lens of the human eye – a condition known as presbyopia – affects almost everybody who enters middle...