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Exploring life at the limits
Explore how our physiology allows us to visit other worlds, climb the highest mountains and swim in Arctic waters at the University of Portsmouth next month. The ‘Extreme Environmental Physiology: Life at the…
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Will sport help young offenders turn their lives around?
Young offenders locked in a secure unit are to be offered sports including orienteering and bushcraft as part of a research project to see if challenging, fun activity can help turn lives around….
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Professor wins academic excellence prize
Lorraine Hope, Professor of Applied Cognitive Psychology and member of the International Centre for Research in Forensic Psychology and the Centre for Research and Evidence on Security Threats (CREST), has won an international…
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Environment, more than evolution, might underlie human-ape differences in social cognition
Environment, more than evolution, might underlie human-ape differences in social cognition Apes’ abilities have been unfairly measured, throwing into doubt the assumed belief that human infants are superior to adult chimpanzees, according to…
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Staff and local businesses attend opening of Future Technology Centre
Celebrations were held all round last week at the opening of the University of Portsmouth’s Future Technology Centre (FTC). The facility was officially opened last week on July 2. The building began construction…
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£9m awarded to health research in the south
Health researchers, medics and patients across the region have been awarded £9m to help find solutions to common health problems. The University of Portsmouth is among the 15 institutions tasked by the National…
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Holes in the Universe sharpen cosmic measurements
Regions of the Universe containing very few or no galaxies – known as voids – can help measure cosmic expansion with much greater precision than before, according to new research. The study looked…
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The Victorians believed that women aged faster than men – a myth that persists today
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Music festivals: how to get more women on stage (and it’s not just 50/50 quotas)
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Japan resumes commercial whaling – researchers on how the world should respond
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Diving into cold water can be deadly – here’s how to survive it
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Ten times the Chernobyl television series let artistic licence get in the way of facts
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Dark holiday: D-Day and the growth of ‘grief tourism’
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Chinese students and workers are uniting again, 30 years after Tiananmen Square crackdown
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How Muslim leaders can respond in an age of extremism
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Bad economic news increases suicide rates
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Cyber attacks are rewriting the ‘rules’ of modern warfare – and we aren’t prepared for the consequences
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Brexit: common ground between Leave and Remain activists that could help bridge divided Britain
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Leonardo da Vinci designed an ideal city that was centuries ahead of its time
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Breast ironing: a harmful practice that doesn’t get sufficient attention
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How LGBTQ people are resisting Bolsonaro’s Brazil through art
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World’s most degraded marine ecosystem could be about to make a comeback
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Slow cinema: what it is and why it’s on a fast track to the mainstream in a frenetic world
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There’s a massive cybersecurity job gap – we should fill it by employing hackers
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#MeToo in Mexico: women finding their voice as campaign gathers force
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Houses through time: some homes can reflect a century of social change
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Evolution: how the theory is inspiring a new way of understanding language
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Renters in England can now sue landlords over mouldy, cold or noisy properties
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Fish fights: Britain has a long history of trading away access to coastal waters
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National service for the environment – what an army of young conservationists could achieve
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Kehidupan laut tropis paling kaya–tapi mengapa paus lebih memilih daerah kutub?
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Web 3.0: the decentralised web promises to make the internet free again
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Syria and Iraq: RAF killed only one civilian in airstrikes – why the discrepancy with what others report?
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Using art to tackle air pollution: a story from a Nairobi slum
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Momo challenge shows how even experts are falling for digital hoaxes
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Big data is being reshaped thanks to 100-year-old ideas about geometry
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Maria Ressa: journalists need protection in Duterte’s Philippines, but we must also heed the stories they tell
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Our Big Microplastic Survey is helping people do something about plastic pollution
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Marine life typically thrives in the tropics – so why do whales prefer the poles?
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How to target resources in efforts to end female genital mutilation
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The hidden costs of online shopping – for customers and retailers
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Free public transport is great news for the environment but it’s no silver bullet
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Retiring from elite sport? Consider seeing a psychologist – Andy Murray did
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Stadiums aren’t fated to disrepair and disuse – history shows they can change with the city
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Philippines’ brutal president must be condemned, but West guilty of double standards
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Brexit: what the UK fishing industry wants
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Lumière artificielle et plantations hors-sol, les nouvelles méthodes des agriculteurs urbains
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First aircraft powered by silent space engine revealed
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Terrorism in Tunisia – evidence of an increasingly unstable North Africa
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I deliberately sent myself to prison in Iceland – they didn’t even lock the cell doors ther
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Jair Bolsonaro will now run into Brazil’s massive grassroots movements of resistance
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Scooby-dooby-doo: making sense of scat singing
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Iran: national teachers’ strike could herald new era of dissent
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Phantosmia: when you smell smells that aren’t there
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Give-up-itis: when people just give up and die
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Forget university rankings, open days are the biggest factor in student choice
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Curious Kids: why do things look smaller when further away and bigger when closer to me?
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What body language can – and can’t – tell us about Russians accused of Sergei Skripal poisoning
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Why aid workers, particularly local ones, need better protection
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Alfonso Cuarón’s Venice Golden Lion triumph for Roma highlights innovative new Netflix approach
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Tous les hommes ont un droit fondamental à la protection de leurs données: Conversation avec le juge Srikrishna
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Wearing an ill-fitting bra isn’t just uncomfortable, it’s bad for your health
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Antidepressants are changing animal behaviour – we’re using technology to find out how
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High staff turnover spells trouble – ask Donald Trump and Theresa May
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Many NGO workers on the ground don’t speak local language
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Many NGO workers on the ground don’t speak the local language – new research
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The problem at the WTO
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We still don’t know enough about species living around the UK’s coastline
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How might sale of Wembley affect grassroots investment?
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Historical movies: why a story is more important than facts
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Curious kids: what’s it like to be a fighter pilot?
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FIFA has successfully developed its own private legal system – now governments must step in
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Don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater
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Golden prize: which Booker-winning novel is the best of them all?
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This man was fired by a computer – real AI could have saved him
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La Marseillaise: has the song that unified the French republic become too divisive?
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Hundreds of Mexican politicians have died in the run up to the election – but cultural leaders are fighting back
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No, mobile phones should not be banned in schools
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How we proved Einstein right on galactic scales – and what it means for dark energy and dark matter
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How chemical weapons became taboo – and why they still are
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Galileo row: Brexit will bar UK from EU sat-nav programme, but Britain could build its own
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How Donald Trump’s nuclear deal withdrawal will hurt Iran’s dissenters and activists
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Why are Britain’s jobcentres disappearing?
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Justine Greening’s proposals are not radical enough – past generations of graduates should contribute too
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How planning law discriminates against Travellers and Gypsies
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Drones will soon decide who to kill
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Five ivory objects that will be exempt from a proposed trade ban
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How to help the public trust NGOs again
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Paradigm shift as African countries throw their weight behind ivory ban
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Sustainable shopping: how to stop your bathers flooding the oceans with plastic
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Oscars 2018: another Mexican triumph as awards move towards diversity
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Donors shouldn’t punish NGOs that disclose misconduct – here’s how to help stamp out abuse
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More academics and students have mental health problems than ever before
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Anthill podcast: Sex
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Delivery drones will cut carbon emissions on short trips, say scientists
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How urban farmers are learning to grow food without soil or natural light
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Having a tattoo of your lover’s name has been a bad idea for hundreds of years
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Do we want to live in a world where our ‘best friends’ are AI chatbots?
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‘T Levels’ Risk Creating A New Binary Divide At 16
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Pankhurst sisters: the bitter divisions behind their fight for women’s votes
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Introducing ‘lucid-dream cinema’: movies to watch while you sleep
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Philippines’ dictator Duterte turns on the media that helped elect him
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Scientists have accidentally found the oldest ever butterfly or moth fossils
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Why do we need to know about prime numbers with millions of digits?
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Iran’s reformists have sided with the hardliners – and doomed their cause
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How new recruits are changing police culture for the better
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Why it’s so important that Hollywood’s powerful women are standing up for all female workers
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Is a cold water swim good for you, or more likely to send you to the bottom?
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Charles Dickens did not invent Christmas – but his seasonal ghosts are still relevant
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Anthill 20: Myths
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Record numbers of children are now home schooled, but who’s keeping an eye on the parents?
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Is prescribing drugs ‘off label’ bad medicine?
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Alt-right claims to march in step with the Knights Templar – this is fake history
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A Levels May Not Be Barbaric But They Are Extremely Wasteful
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Do tourists visit Britain because of the royal family?
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‘I bequeath U…’: when a text message can count as your will
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Should we fear the rise of drone assassins? Two experts debate
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Stop portraying Islamic State as a band of exotic globetrotters
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Daryll Rowe guilty – but is criminal law the right way to stop the spread of HIV?
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Reviewing Higher Education Funding Must Not Entrench The So-Called ‘Elite’
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Pizza delivery for Walter White: the pros and cons of fan tourism
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Forget gory Gunpowder – Jacobean England had a bloodcurdling appetite for violence
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How Frida Kahlo became a trinket for a Conservative leader
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Confronting breast cancer is crucial to India’s economic development
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Behind the Japanese court ruling that tattoo artists need to be qualified doctors
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Prison officer pay rise won’t solve wider crisis in justice system
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Nothing matters: how the invention of zero helped create modern mathematics
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Britain’s unclaimed benefits: four million families miss out on £12.4bn
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Sex, secrets and murder most foul: following the threads of the Limehouse Golem
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American Horror Story: how the cult TV show hints at real-world nightmares
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Contaminated eggs show continuing problems with supply chain
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Gulf of Mexico ‘dead zone’ is already a disaster – but it could get worse
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‘The day the world changed’ – a former trader on how the credit crunch kicked off
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What the physics of bubbles can tell us about language
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Return of ‘The L Word’: representing lesbian desire on screen in a new era
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MasterCard survives £14 billion class action but more could follow
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Why the advertising industry should cheer new rules on gender stereotypes
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Rodrigo Duterte’s first year: a human rights disaster the world prefers to ignore
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Pokémon Go no longer has the hype of 2016, but a loyal fanbase remains
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‘Mental health first aid training’ in schools is a sticking-plaster solution
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Five ways virtual reality is improving healthcare
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Off on holiday? Here’s the best time to book flights and hotels
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How Orange is the New Black raised the bar behind bars
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Are only one in eight counter-terrorism referrals to Prevent made by Muslims?
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How Tory U-turn on the antique ivory trade will threaten elephants in the wild
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Sense8 and sensibility: how a TV series is transcending geographical and gender borders
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Why the British and Irish Lions tour of New Zealand could be a roaring success
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Iran is using indirect censorship methods to avoid international criticism
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A lesson on the dangers of patriotism from a pacifist of World War I
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The scandal might be over but LIBOR ethics remain fundamentally flawed
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Good riddance to the Garden Bridge: an eye-watering waste of public funds
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Under the hoods: the brotherhoods (and sisterhoods) of Spain’s Holy Week
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Why Trump’s Syrian strike was a good thing
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Five maps that will change how you see the world
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Landmark case upholds people’s right to leave money to whomever they choose
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Firms struggling to keep ahead of sophisticated phishing scams
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The saga of Anders Breivik’s prison conditions puts European democracy in the spotlight
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How a ‘rogue’ White House Twitter account is trying to make itself credible
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Ink stigma: the Japanese tattoo artists fighting back
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Universal Credit: from benefits panacea to government blunder
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Aung San Suu Kyi has no excuse for staying silent on the Rohingya crisis
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Would you resort to bribery? Studies show many would
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Lettuce in February: the hidden cost of buying fresh vegetables all year round
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How a rare murder in Iceland has chilled a nation
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Body cameras: coming to a school near you soon
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Films you should watch to counter American anti-migrant rhetoric
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Can British universities make the most of May’s new industrial strategy?
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Five of the most violent moments of the Reformation
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Why China’s ivory ban is a mammoth step towards saving the elephant
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Sherlock Holmes and the strange case of anti-intellectualism
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Why your ability to speak English could be judged on how you look
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How to talk to your dog – according to science
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Connecting world’s robots will drive 2017’s technology
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PG Wodehouse shrugs off wartime controversy
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What it really feels like when a loved one goes missing
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Virtual reality may soon change gigs forever
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Magma power might hold key to renewable energy
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Old drug could provide cancer breakthrough
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Map of voids and clusters solves cosmological puzzle
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Research shows nations really do go to war over oil
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Panama Papers: drip-drip effect will be worrying Putin
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Vacuum bombs latest in long history of atrocity
UK-first report features Portsmouth’s Sport and Exercise Science contribution to society
The University of Portsmouth features in the first report measuring the contribution Sport and Exercise Science (SES) makes to the UK. The ‘Sport and Exercise Education: Impact on the UK Economy’ report, produced…
Become a seaside scientist by joining the Big Microplastic Survey
School groups, community organisations and beach lovers everywhere can combine seaside visits with a spot of scientific research by taking part in a new microplastic citizen science project. A University of Portsmouth researcher…
New ‘promiscuous’ enzyme helps turn plant waste into sustainable products
A new family of enzymes has been discovered which paves the way to convert plant waste into sustainable and high-value products such as nylon, plastics, chemicals, and fuels. The discovery was led by…
Einstein proved right in another galaxy
An international team of astronomers have made the most precise test of gravity outside our own solar system. By combining data taken with NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and the European Southern Observatory’s Very…
Helping visually impaired children to ‘feel’ the Universe
A University of Portsmouth project is helping blind and visually impaired children to ‘feel’ the Universe. The Tactile Universe has been developed by the University’s Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation to engage the blind and…
This woman was rated high for attractiveness by men and women from University of Portsmouth on Vimeo.
Something in the way she moves
How a woman moves is at least as important as her body shape in terms of whether others find her attractive, according to new research. The study by University of Portsmouth evolutionary psychologist…
Film accepted for the Short Film Corner in Cannes
A short film developed as part of a novel experiment in film education will be shown at the prestigious Cannes Film Festival in the summer. The film has been accepted for the 2018…
Man’s earliest ancestors discovered in southern England
Fossils of the oldest mammals related to mankind have been discovered on the Jurassic Coast of Dorset. The two teeth are from small, rat-like creatures that lived 145 million years ago in the shadow of the dinosaurs. They are the earliest undisputed fossils of mammals belonging to the line that led to human beings.
Wolves understand cause and effect better than dogs
Domestic dogs may have lost some of their innate animal skill when they came in from the wild, according to new research conducted at the Wolf Science Center in Austria. In a study…
80 year olds as street-savvy as 18 year olds
Our gut instinct about whether a stranger poses a threat is as good when we’re 80 as when we’re 18, according to new research. Older people are as good as young adults at…
Gold rating for teaching excellence at the University of Portsmouth
We are one of only four universities in the South East region to be rated gold, along with the Universities of Kent, Oxford and Surrey.
FACT CHECK: Nothing factual about claim that only 1 in 8 referrals to the government's counter-terrorism programme made by Muslims#GE2017 pic.twitter.com/p368UDHbk5
— The Conversation (@ConversationUK) June 7, 2017
Are only one in eight counter-terrorism referrals to Prevent made by Muslims?
Sameera M. Khalfey, University of Portsmouth We need to get the Muslim community itself to sign up to the Prevent programme. Only…
Help identify lost men at sea
Can you help identify the men who died in the Battle of Jutland, the largest naval engagement of World War One? Researchers at the University of…
The dark side of sport: Elite athletes as likely to suffer from depression as inactive people
At an elite level, athletes are just as likely to suffer from depression as people who don’t do any sport
Sandi Toksvig hosts her last Chancellor’s Dinner
Over 350 students, alumni and city guests attended the last University of Portsmouth dinner to be hosted by Chancellor Sandi Toksvig on Friday night at the city’s Guildhall.
Portsmouth scholars selected for Team GB
Two University of Portsmouth sportsmen have been selected for Great Britain to take part in the 2017 World University Winter Games in Kazakhstan. Laurence Willows, a member of the England ski cross team,…
Young filmmaker strikes right chord
Oliver Moore, a film production student who made a fan video in tribute to a band he’s followed since he was a teenager, was amazed when they adopted it as their official video.
One in ten burglary victims moves house
Tune in above to watch Dr Nee’s interview on the Discovery Channel. Being a victim of burglary has such a profound effect on some, that more than a million in the UK moved…
Humble bait worm worth billions
The humble bait worm wriggling on the hook at the end of an angler’s line may be considered a low-value resource.
New study finds link between walk and aggression
The way people walk can give clues to how aggressive they are, a new exploratory study from the University of Portsmouth has found.
Local schoolchildren make live TV
Local 10-year-olds have been busy working in front of the camera and behind the scenes to make live TV shows at the University of Portsmouth, which will be broadcast at a special screening…
Portsmouth joins survey to create ‘movie of the sky’
The University of Portsmouth has become one of the latest supporters of a new telescope which is being built to produce movies of the sky. The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) will produce…
New advice for children to avoid abduction
Children who say no, run away or call for help are more likely to avoid being abducted by strangers than those who lash out, a new study from the University of Portsmouth has…
Hope, humility and humour triumph for Beirut hostage
The University’s third annual Chancellor’s dinner took place last Friday and was a resounding success. John McCarthy, the former journalist and Beirut hostage, held the audience enthralled as he spoke of his time in captivity.
‘Dragon thief’ dinosaur named
The skeleton of the earliest Jurassic dinosaur ever found has been named Dracoraptor, meaning dragon thief, in a paper published today. The dinosaur has been described by University of Portsmouth palaeontologists Dr Dave…
Breasts might be putting girls off sport
About half of all girls at UK secondary schools might be avoiding sport because of embarrassment or pain caused by their breasts, according to new research. The study also found that very few…
Student volunteers help feed the 5,000
Student volunteers helped turn unwanted supermarket food into free hot meals for thousands of Portsmouth residents. The Feeding the 5,000 event, organised by Portsmouth Food Partnership, saw about 15 students join a huge…
Good luck, bonne chance, boa sorte Tim Peake!
Counting down to Tim’s big trip. Tim Peake, astronaut and University of Portsmouth Alumnus, blasts off into space on 15 December. Watch the video of staff wishing him good luck in 15 languages.
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November 18, 2019Race Equality Survey – less than 2 weeks to respond
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November 15, 2019
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November 15, 2019
University to host live election debates with MP candidates for Portsmouth
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November 14, 2019
Take part in the Reverse Advent Calendar and Christmas Jumper Day
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November 13, 2019
Transgender Awareness Week – updated Gender Expression and Identity Policy
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November 15, 2019Nominate fellow students or staff for the Vice-Chancellor’s Awards
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November 14, 2019
Take part in the Reverse Advent Calendar and Christmas Jumper Day
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November 14, 2019
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November 13, 2019
Speak Up and Sort It Out – calling prospective student leaders
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November 11, 2019
November 15, 2019
Internal Comms — Hi Bolaji, Anglesea should provide water on each floor but Buckingham has been identified as a building which needs a...
November 15, 2019
Bolaji — Can we place more water fountains in the Anglesea and Buckingham buildings
