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We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. You can change your cookie settings at any time. Otherwise, we'll assume you're OK to continue. Children with autism could miss out on non-verbal cues to social interaction Children with autism might be missing "crucial" non-verbal gestures because they typically look away more than others when listening to parents, teachers and other professionals.

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We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. You can change your cookie settings at any time. Otherwise, we'll assume you're OK to continue. Research into the new Life in the UK citizenship test has exposed major flaws in the exam. The test, which is taken by some 150,000 would-be British citizens each year, has been scrutinised by Durham University academic Dr Thom Brooks, a US immigrant who has combined first-hand knowledge about the test with his expertise in citizenship and politics.

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Steve Lindsay, Professor in the School of Biological and Biomedical Sciences , is a world-leading authority on the control of malaria.

New telescope brings distant galaxies into sharp focus Durham University astronomers have played a key role in research using a powerful new telescope to bring images of the distant Universe into much sharper focus. Durham University astronomers have played a key role in research using a powerful new telescope to bring images of the distant Universe into much sharper focus.

Newly-discovered food recipes from a 12 th century Durham Priory manuscript have been found to predate the earliest known ones by 150 years.

Lottery funding for new sports pitch Durham University has successfully bid for £500,000 of National Lottery funding to install a new artificial grass pitch.

Access to Russell Group universities is 'far from fair', according to a new study. The research by Dr Vikki Boliver, a lecturer in the School of Applied Social Sciences , shows that applicants from state schools and from black and Asian ethnic backgrounds are less likely to be admitted to Russell Group universities than their peers with the same A-level results from private schools and white ethnic backgrounds.

Thom Brooks, of Durham University, an expert on citizenship and immigration, said the new Life in the UK citizenship test needed urgent wholesale revision. The Government's latest test takes effect from March 25, 2013. It is based on the third edition of its handbook Life in the United Kingdom: A Guide for New Residents , which was published on January 28, 2013.

Durham is leading two pivotal projects to provide instruments for the European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT), one of the biggest science collaborations in history.

A widespread badger cull will not solve the problem of tuberculosis in cattle, according to new research by Durham University. But the study says that it may play a part in controlling infection levels in problem hotspots in the UK. It has been claimed that controlling badger numbers would reduce the spread of TB in cattle and a cull is due to begin this summer.

A Durham University social media expert is preparing to travel to Uganda as part of a charity's unusual bloggers' mission.