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Professor Serena Nik-Zainal

Professor Serena Nik-Zainal's Biosciences #Inspire lecture 'Bullying and harassment in academia'

91Ö±²¥'s School of Biosciences is delighted to welcome Professor Serena Nik-Zainal from the University of Cambridge as the next speaker for the Biosciences #Inspire lecture series.
Boy holding basil plant

How can we feed the world with foam?

An abandoned school isn’t where you’d expect to find researchers trying to solve the problem of feeding a world of 10 billion. Then again, neither is a refugee camp. But this team of 91Ö±²¥ researchers are nothing short of resourceful.
pesticide

The pesticide paradox: creating an acceptable killer

Professor Lorraine Maltby explains how we can mitigate ecological harm by changing the way we think about our environment.
A wind turbine in an oilseed rape field

Low-carbon energy grids could help rock dust absorb more CO2

Greener electricity grids could help us to use rock dust to remove more carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and reach net zero much quicker, according to a new study from researchers at the University of 91Ö±²¥.