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George Osborne supports Lancaster’s business-boosting research and development initiative
Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne has supported an innovative international business-engagement initiative created by Lancaster University.
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National award win for business-boosting environmental research and development programme
A unique environmental research and development programme involving leading universities and almost 300 businesses has won a prestigious national award.
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Banning trans fats could save over 7,000 lives by 2020
A total ban of trans fats in processed foods might prevent or postpone around 7,200 deaths from coronary heart disease over the next five years.
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Lancaster rises in World University Rankings
Lancaster University has risen 39 places to be ranked 121 in the QS World University Rankings.
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NATO tests technology developed at Lancaster University
Wireless communications technology developed by Lancaster researchers is being tested for its suitability for use by NATO.
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Studying how people in Sweden speak about cancer
Lancaster researchers are helping a team in Sweden investigate how people talk about cancer in terms of verbal imagery.
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Linguistics study reveals our growing obsession with education
As children around the country go back to school, a new comparative study of spoken English reveals that we talk about education nearly twice as much as we did twenty years ago.
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Paving the way to ever-safer anaesthesia
Researchers have made a breakthrough which could help prevent patients suffering stress to the body and from feeling pain or becoming aware during anaesthesia.
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Lancaster University’s Work Foundation to study whether schools need a ‘Head of Wellbeing’
Lancaster University’s Work Foundation has been commissioned to assess new health and wellbeing measures in a school, as part of a new pilot study by Nuffield Health.
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Shedding light on the era of Dark silicon
Researchers at Lancaster University are racing against time to find smart solutions to the rapidly advancing era of ‘dark silicon’.