The ability of baby fish to find a home, or other safe haven, to grow into adulthood will be severely impacted under predicted ocean acidification, academics have found.
Research published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B, the international team, which included a researcher from the University of Exeter, reports the interpretation of normal ocean sound cues which help baby fish find an appropriate home is completely confused under the levels of CO2 predicted to be found in oceans by the end of the century.
Team member Dr Stephen Simpson, from the University...
The University of Exeter will pioneer new methods for managing and treating chronic health conditions at a ground-breaking new maths-based research centre, it has been announced.
The new centre, led by Professor John Terry from the College of Engineering, Mathematics and Physical Sciences, aims to revolutionise the diagnosis and prognosis of a range of common chronic health conditions.
The Centre is one of five across the UK launched by Life Sciences Minister George Freeman today (16 December) and which will receive part of a £10 million total investment by the Engineering...
Families from across the South West are invited to take part in an enlightening festive treat, at a special event hosted by the University of Exeter.
As Christmas lights begin to adorn trees, mantle pieces and windows of houses across the region, the University will give a special free talk about the science of light and colour on Thursday, December 10th at the Streatham Campus.
Presented by Professor Pete Vukusic, from the University’s Physics department, the talk will show how both the biological world and technology are making the most of light’s very special properties...
United Airlines is to be the presenting sponsor for the ‘UK Challenge’, the leading corporate team building event in the UK organised by IMG, a global leader in sports, events, fashion and media.
‘UK Challenge Presented by United Airlines’ will take place at Dartmoor from 30th June to 3rd July 2016. The event, which has been creating powerful business benefits for a variety of companies for more than 25 years, challenges teams intellectually, strategically and physically with a number of missions to complete across three days and nights.
A simple test using a raisin can predict how well a toddler will perform academically at age eight, according to research conducted at the University of Warwick.
Using just the piece of dried fruit and a plastic cup they have devised a test based on how long a 20-month old child can wait to pick up a raisin in front of them. The toddlers were given a raisin that was placed under an opaque cup within easy reach. After three training runs toddlers were asked to wait until they were told (60 seconds) they could touch and eat the raisin. During the study it was found that those who...
The University of Exeter will launch a national humanities festival with a touch of magic this year as experts and academics come together to discuss our modern view of the mystical.
‘Magic: from the Inquisition to Harry Potter’ takes place on 12 November at Exeter Community Centre and brings together a group of experts on magic in history and literature to debate the mystery surrounding magic; why people are fascinated by it and how far our modern image of magic in novels such as Harry Potter reflect the lives of real people in the past.
Exeter School was delighted to welcome Dr Natalie Garrett to Exeter School on 28 September to give two talks on her work as a Biophotonics researcher at the University of Exeter.
The lecture was sponsored by the Institute of Physics and Dr Garrett presented her work to a group of around 90 Sixth Form scientists in the morning and all Middle Fifth pupils, as well as around 100 pupils from other local schools, in the afternoon.
Pupils provided lots of really positive feedback about the talk that built up slowly to show how Dr Garrett, after studying Physics at degree level,...
Young people are taking part in a unique outreach project in which they are leading and participating in a scientific research project on chemicals in plastic food packaging.
Teenagers in Devon are being mentored by experts at the University of Exeter, and gaining first-hand experience of all aspects of scientific research, from project planning to public engagement.
Funded by the Wellcome Trust and supported by the NIHR Exeter Clinical Research Facility, the citizen science project will see the Year 12s design a study to assess the effects of reducing consumed levels of a...
Chat rooms play a positive role in motivating students and encouraging an independent approach to learning English as a foreign language. Innovative research highlighted in a new book Using Technology in Foreign Language Teaching shows the advantages and disadvantages of utilising IT in teaching English in countries like the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Saudi Arabia, Oman, Iran and Malaysia. The current interest in combining different teaching methods with technologies that promise to motivate learners to respond effectively has meant that many language-teaching institutions strive to...
The prospect of finding ocean-bearing exoplanets has been boosted, thanks to a pioneering new study.
An international team of scientists, including from the University of Exeter, has discovered an immense cloud of hydrogen escaping from a Neptune-sized exoplanet.
Such a phenomena not only helps explain the formation of hot and rocky ‘super-earths’, but also may potentially act as a signal for detecting extrasolar oceans. Scientists also believe they can use the discovery to envisage the future of Earth’s atmosphere, four billion years from today.
