It’s the UN’s International Day for Women and Girls in Science on February 11. We hear from four of Warwick’s young women research scientists, who share their hopes for their research and the future.
Plants soak up carbon dioxide and breathe out oxygen. They are food, clothing, medicine, power and building materials. We have harnessed so many benefits from the botanical world and yet we are only really scratching the surface of a realm which still holds many secrets and discoveries.
It’s been a bit chilly recently. In the UK, temperatures dropped dramatically. We’ve not only experienced arctic nights, but days where the temperatures didn’t trouble zero. It was worrying for those who did not have the benefit of a centrally-heated home and annoying and dangerous for commuters. But could science help us tackle these kinds of conditions in the future? Could we prevent road and rail from freezing? Could humans survive for prolonged periods in sub-zero temperatures?
Achieving gender equality by 2030 is a global sustainable development goal. This was established by the UN in 2015. The goal is number five on a list of 17 and sits above clean water and climate action. But why is gender equality so integral to development? Can’t we just solve world problems as we are?
It seems we are facing a Courgette Crisis. Although it’s really just a bit of a run on green vegetables, it does remind us that actually, courgettes – and now iceberg lettuce – shouldn’t be ‘February vegetables’. This raises some important issues about what we as consumers have learned to expect when it comes to food.
We're aspiring to do better for our local surroundings, for our people and for our planet. We spoke to Professor Laura Green, Head of the School of Life Sciences, who is engaged in researching complex bacterial diseases of livestock at Warwick.
It's British Science Week and academics from the Faculty of Science will be showing thousands of young people the exciting things they get up to in the lab, at the Big Bang Science and Engineering Fair. Meet physarum polycephalum, the many-headed-slime!
We're aspiring to do better for our local surroundings, for our people and for our planet through teaching and research. We spoke to Dr Martine Barons from the Department of Statistics, who researches decision support in food security at Warwick.
New research lead by Professor Dr Robin Allaby from the University of Warwick's Department of Life Sciences has questioned the traditional evaluation of the development of early British man.
