Press Releases
Researchers say hydrogen powered cars would need 100,000 wind turbines or 100 nuclear plants
Researchers from the University of Warwick have produced a startling calculation that any move to replace the UK's oil burning vehicles with greener hydrogen powered cars and trucks would require the erection of 100,000 new wind turbines or 100 new nuclear power plants.
Researchers & bakers combine to plug mineral gap in UK soil linked to fertility & cancer
A consortium of researchers, farmers and a major baker are working together to fill future supermarket shelves with loaves of bread that will arrest the plummeting levels in the UK diet of a mineral that plays a significant role in male fertility and the prevention of some cancers.
Wartime Spitfire strain test monitors stress on key heart artery - aortic aneurysm
Researchers at the University of Warwick have found a way of using a test devised in the 1930s, and used to gauge the stress on the superchargers in wartime spitfire fighter planes, to model the stress that surgical procedures would put on an aortic aneurysm. An aortic aneurysm is a dangerous bulge in the body’s largest artery the aorta. The aorta is a crucial artery as it carries all the blood pumped from the heart.
Research examines bio-pesticides battle with both pests and regulators
Warwick HRI has been quick to reap the benefits of its merger with the University of Warwick. A joint research proposal between scientists at Warwick HRI and researchers in the University of Warwick’s Department of Politics and International Studies has won a £316,000 grant from the Research Councils’ Rural Economy and Land Use programme for a project on the science and regulation of bio-pesticides.
Research Reveals Customers Clueless Love of Loyalty Cards
A student research project has revealed that many people have absolutely no idea how much their supermarket loyalty cards save them but that despite the cards do indeed produce customer loyalty and increase customer spend within supermarkets.
Research Says Many Teenage Mothers Shut Out of Professional Qualifications
A research project by a student in the University of Warwick's Department of Economics has found that one of biggest educational problems for many teenage mothers is that many of them are shut out of the professional qualifications market.