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Call for technology providers to take action on AI non-consensual ‘deepfake pornography’

30 September 2026

For the first time, researchers have identified and named the key players facilitating the growing problem of AI-generated explicit sexual imagery online.
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Patient Impact Award for Lancaster University researcher

25 September 2026

A Lancaster Medical School researcher has received an award from North West Cancer Research for work in Cancer ‘Prehab’. 
Pygmy Antwren (Myrmotherula brachyura) in the primary tropical rainforest; forest fire burning within primary forest in the Tapajós National Forest; forest used for selective logging in the Jari region

Amazonian study identifies most effective ways of conserving biodiversity and carbon

17 September 2026

As the 2026 El Niño intensifies across the Amazon, new research highlights the urgent need to better protect the region’s remaining forests from disturbances.
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New Register reveals extent of Britain’s slave-trading past

16 September 2026

Lancaster University researchers have produced a Register of British Slave Traders, documenting thousands of people who financed the trade.
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Mystery of one of the earliest recorded space weather impacts solved

16 September 2026

A 178-year-old mystery surrounding one of the earliest recorded examples of space weather affecting technology has been solved by an international team led by Lancaster University.
Tiaracá stream in Jaú National Park (Amazonas state, Brazil) in September 2024 during the extreme drought. Travel along the stream was only possible by paddling, with water levels too low for the outboard motor

As El Niño looms, study finds rapid growth in climate extremes are hitting an unexpected region of the Amazon hardest

9 September 2026

The central north Amazon, with extensive areas of high forest cover, natural savannas and vast and important indigenous territories, was not previously considered as being the most affected by climate change. 

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The Lancaster research behind a new BBC series on Britain's slave trade

Dr Nicholas Radburn's work on the Register of British Slave Traders features in a new BBC series with David Olusoga.

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Dr Nicholas Radburn. - BBC/Hillgate Films and Voltage TV/Stephen Robinson