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A report by experts at The University of Nottingham has shown that the British public is beginning to warm to the idea of shale gas.

This map shows an infrared view of the Milky Way, as seen from Earth, plus the infrared spectra of two stars. Green circles show locations where infrared spectroscopy data were obtained during the first year of Sloan Digital Sky Survey-III observations with the Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE).

The Health Data Exploration project has announced a call for participants in an online survey that seeks to uncover insights into how individuals, companies and researchers are using the data that are captured through digital devices such as fitness apps.

Photographs taken by Jack Ephgrave, a member of the large British expatriate community in Shanghai in the early years of the twentieth century, are featured in the second exhibition on the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)'s new Image Gallery, launched today. The images were collected as part of the 'Historical Photographs of China' project, led by Professor Robert Bickers of the University of Bristol, which has digitised thousands of historical photographs of China taken between the 1860s and 1940s.

New draft guidance on identifying and preventing domestic violence i and abuse between family members or between people who are (or who have been) intimate partners is published today [02 Aug] by t he UK's National institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) .

This map shows an infrared view of the Milky Way, as seen from Earth, plus the infrared spectra of two stars. Green circles show locations where infrared spectroscopy data were obtained during the first year of Sloan Digital Sky Survey-III observations with the Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE).

Despite more money, better trained talent and sophisticated equipment, China's domestic innovation system is still underperforming and political will is needed if the country is to produce breakthroughs worthy of a Nobel Prize.

1 August 2013 Together with our partner DLR German Aerospace Center, our Spacetweetups are becoming even more social.

Recently enacted anti-gay legislation in Russia and a resulting surge of anti-gay violence has the international press reeling.

Young people just released from prison are up to 20 times more likely to face death than those in the community, a new study has found. Associate Professor Stuart Kinner from the University of Melbourne and Dr Kate van Dooren from the University of Queensland looked at approximately 42,000 records of people released from prison in Queensland between 1994 and 2007.

ANN ARBOR-Young adults with cancer should try to stay occupied with school, work and other activities during the year after their diagnosis to become less vulnerable to post-traumatic stress symptoms, say University of Michigan researchers. A U-M study of 215 adolescents and young adults addresses the struggles of coping with life-threatening illness and treatment.

Hens usually prefer to lay their eggs in nests but it is not unusual for some eggs to be laid on the floor of the hen house or on the ground and in some cases the incidence of floor eggs can be quite high. A new study aims to identify the most important risk factors for floor laying in hens and explore whether any of the methods that are currently employed by farmers to deal with the problem actually work.

Six UChicago faculty members— Elisabeth Clemens , Douglas R. Dirschl , Maryellen L. Giger , Susan C. Levine , Wenbin Lin and John Levi Martin —have received named pro

Gang members trust one another more than their own family members if they have shared incriminating information about a violent act they are planning, according to a new Oxford University study. Researchers analysed phone conversations between gangs wiretapped by the police in the 1990s. They found that the more two members had over the phone, the higher the level of co-operation they had on future tasks.

A team of scholars who are engaged in researching ways to improve human capital and economic opportunity convened the " Conference on the Study of Inequality " on Monday, June 17, at the University of Chicago Center in Beijing.

The first ever China-UK clinical exchange programme has been agreed by the Universities of Glasgow and Sun Yat Sen.

A new opinion poll about voting intentions in Wales has revealed that the Labour party is on course to make major gains in Wales at the next general election in 2015.

Users of Twitter and other social media receive criticism for broadcasting mundane things about their lives, but a Cornell researcher says the idea of chronicling everyday life for a broader audience is not novel - though some risks inherent in the technology may be.

There has been a "worrying" increase in alcohol related deaths among young women in England and Scotland, since the middle of the last decade, finds research published online in the Journal of Epidemi

Improving vaccination rates against the human papillomavirus (HPV) in young boys is key to protecting both men and women, says new research from University of Toronto Professor Peter A. Newman from the Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work.

From touching a nerve to finding their funny bone — people affected by addiction problems are being asked to draw on their own life experiences to devise material for a stand-up comedy routine, as part of a new social enterprise devised by two Nottingham entrepreneurs.

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UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. People are more likely to try to break up a bar fight when they believe the conflict is too violent, or has the potential to become more violent, according to an international team of researchers. Bystanders break up about a third of the fights that occur in bars and are most likely to intervene in conflicts between males, said Michael Parks , who recently earned his doctorate in sociology at Penn State.

On July 13, in a case watched around the world, an American jury found George Zimmerman not guilty of second-degree murder or manslaughter charges in the death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin on February 26, 2012.

Professor Sarah Birch, recently appointed Chair of Comparative Politics at the University of Glasgow is one of 42 new Fellows to be elected to the British Academy.

In an unprecedented honour for the University of Sheffield, two of its academic staff have been elected Fellows of the British Academy - the UK's national body which champions and supports the humanities and social sciences.

Eight Oxford University professors were among 59 academics elected into the British Academy at its annual general meeting yesterday (Thursday 18 July).

PA 238/13 The values and factors that influence people when deciding whether to accept or reject changes to the energy system are revealed for the first time by research involving Nottingham academics. The findings of the study, which was led by Cardiff University and draws on expertise from The University of Nottingham, reveal that people in Britain are fully supportive of the idea of energy change.

17 Jul 2013 New research by experts at The University of Manchester has highlighted 'massive new opportunities' for harvesting information from digital and administrative data. Drs Mark Elliot and Kingsley Purdam say huge quantities of useful data is now being created as a by-product of processes such as traces from internet users, Twitter and Facebook.

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Employers who demand Canadian work experience are discriminating against potential employees, the Ontario Human Rights Commission says.

In West Africa's Ivory Coast (Côte d'Ivoire), as many as 60 percent of women experience physical or sexual violence at the hands of their male partners at some point in their lifetime.

PhD candidate Annelise Heinz tracks the intersection of race and gender in 20th-century American culture through a study of the game of mahjong.

Researchers from the School of Social Policy & Practice at the University of Pennsylvania want to help end homelessness through sharing critical data.

Buzz about the bees: Leading bee lab holds open day What flowers do bees like best? What makes the honey bee the only creature aside from other humans that can tell us where it's been? The answers to

By Jocelyn Prasad 15 July 2013 Have you heard of sexting? What do you think about it? Have you sent or received sexually suggestive material? In a bid to influence policy and inform recent public deba

Tiny ocean plants use turbulence for travel to social gatherings. Tiny ocean plants, or phytoplankton, were long thought to be passive drifters in the sea - unable to defy even the weakest currents, or travel by their own volition. In recent decades, research has shown that many species of these unicellular microorganisms can swim, and do so to optimize light exposure, avoid predators or move closer to others of their kind.

Chinese and Australian researchers are set to confront the challenges of climate change policy together under a new research program announced today.

For the past five years, Pennsylvania residents have been regaled with predictions of new-found wealth that the Marcellus Shale gas boom would produce, and for some individuals these predictions have become reality.

SPRU professor to lead social science campaign Professor James Wilsdon, a University of Sussex expert in science policy, will lead a national campaign to promote the importance of social science to the government and the public.

Posted under: Environment , Honors and Awards , Research , Science , UW and the Community Julia Parrish was one of 12 "champions of change” invited to share their ideas on public engagement in science and science literacy June 25 at the White House.

Millions of people in low-income countries still depend on public computer and Internet access venues despite the global proliferation of mobile phones and home computers.

The Taliban will try to 'retake' the Afghan province of Helmand once foreign forces withdraw at the end of 2014, according to a study by academics from the Department of War Studies at King's College London, published today in the Chatham House journal International Affairs .

Following a very successful UK Fulbright Summer Institute at King's College London last summer the College has secured the prestigious programme for the years 2013 to 2015.

Social work professor Venera Bekteshi has found that a bout with cancer can be the catalyst for growth and healing in mother-daughter relationships. Photo by L. Brian Stauffer CHAMPAIGN, Ill. A bout with cancer can be the catalyst for growth and healing in mother-daughter relationships, suggests a new study by a University of Illinois social work professor.

Dealing with daughter's illness inspired Sussex graduate to go to university When her daughter fell dangerously ill, Kim Novis took it upon herself to learn as much as she could about her daughter's condition - and began a journey that will ultimately be of enormous benefit to other sick children.