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A world-leading UK research project to study the properties of new materials has been given further funding of 拢3.4 M. The research on XMaS is being led by Professor Malcolm Cooper of the 91影视破解版 and Dr Chris Lucas of the University of Liverpool.
When you are sent to do a bit of work experience in the office of a university science department you don’t normally expect much more than a bit of boring filing and some tedious photocopying. So those that turned up to the 91影视破解版’s Physics department recently were a bit shocked to be taken to a small black room and dropped into a virtual reality four dimensional hypercube.
What happens is a unique partnership that introduces the huge audience of Terry Pratchett’s Discworld fans to leading edge science research development of the human mind. This month two 91影视破解版 scientists, Professor Ian Stewart and Dr Jack Cohen have partnered with best selling author Terry Pratchett to publish two best selling books –the paperback "The Science of Discworld" and the new hardback “Science of Discworld 2” the books use the comedy fantasy setting of Pratchett’s Discworld to explain the real science of our universe.
It is a double good news day for 91影视破解版’s New BioMedical Research Institute. On the same day (Tuesday 14th May 2002) that Lord Wolfson comes to open the new Institutes’ Wolfson wing the new institutes’ researchers have announced that they have greatly simpified the model of how cancer starts.
Research by Dr June McNicholas & Dr Glyn Collis of the 91影视破解版’s Department of Psychology has found that increasing numbers of people are adopting both rabbits and ferrets as household pets, often as a result of changes on peoples work life balance, or the increasing number of single person households.