University of Liverpool, UK - Liverpool leads £1.17M innovative future MSR reactor project

Title:

Liverpool leads £1.17M innovative future MSR reactor project  

 

Published:

University of Liverpool, 1 July 2021

https://news.liverpool.ac.uk/2021/07/01/liverpool-leads-1-17m-innovative-future-msr-reactor-project/

 

From the article:

* The University of Liverpool has been awarded £1.17 million from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) to lead a collaborative project to explore a new, more sustainable and more economic nuclear technology for the UK. 

 

* The project, which also involves the Universities of Lancaster and Manchester and several national and international industrial partners as advisors, will be led by Professor Bruno Merk who holds the Royal Academy of Engineering Chair in Emerging Technology at the University.

 

Lancaster University, 23 September 2020 - First evidence that air pollution particles and metals are reaching the placenta

Title:

First evidence that air pollution particles and metals are reaching the placenta

 

Published:

Lancaster University, 23 September 2020

https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/news/first-evidence-that-air-pollution-particles-and-metals-are-reaching-the-placenta

 

From the article:

Carbon- and metal-rich pollution particles have been found in the placentas of fifteen women in London, according to new research.

 

The study, funded by Barts Charity and published in the journal Science of The Total Environment, demonstrates that inhaled particulate matter from air pollution can move from the lungs to distant organs, and that it is taken up by certain cells in the human placenta, and potentially target the foetus.

 

Lancaster University, United Kingdom - Invasive rushes spreading in upland farm fields

Title:
Invasive rushes spreading in upland farm fields

Author:
Dr Mark Ashby

Published:
Lancaster University, 9 June 2020
https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/news/invasive-rushes-spreading-in-upland-farm-fields

From the article:
A new study shows invasive native species of rushes are spreading across UK upland farms and have the potential to threaten wildlife and the livelihoods of farmers.