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The Muon g-2 experiment

Highly-anticipated Fermilab result strengthens evidence of new physics

A much-anticipated result from an international science experiment provides strong evidence for the existence of an undiscovered subatomic particle or new force.
Roisin O’Riordan

The overlooked importance of urban soils

When we think about soils we often imagine wide expanses of rural farmland – but the growing importance of soils in our towns and cities needs to be better understood, a new paper highlights.
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Lancaster success for knowledge exchange

The first ever new Knowledge Exchange Framework, which measures how well universities perform in areas from business support to local regeneration, has placed Lancaster in the top twenty or thirty percent in five out of seven assessment areas, when compared to 135 English Higher Institutions.
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Chance to ‘tune in’ to learn all about innovative Morecambe Bay Curriculum

An opportunity to hear all about the unique community-created curriculum, designed to equip children and young people with the skills to look after themselves and the planet, is available now.
Floating solar farm

Floating solar farms could help reduce impacts of climate change on lakes and reservoirs

Floating solar farms could help to protect lakes and reservoirs from some of the harms of climate change, a new study suggests.
Members of the Beyond Imagination engagement team in front of the Mainway estate in Lancaster are (from left to right) consultation project Co-Directors Dr Mirian Calvo, Lecturer in Participatory Architecture and Professor Leon Cruickshank, Professor of Design and Creative Exchange with Violet Owen, PhD candidate and Dr David Perez, Lecturer in Radical Co-Design. Picture by Wash Studio.

University team work with residents and council to improve City’s social housing

Lancaster University’s Beyond Imagination team are at the forefront of a consultation for once-in-a-generation proposals to improve social housing on the Mainway Estate, Lancaster, which, this week, were given the green light to move to the next stage.

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