News from 2017

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  How the UK smoking ban increased wellbeing

  Married women with children have benefited the most from the UK public smoking ban according to Lancaster University researchers.

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  Residents of major Pakistan city are exposed to harmful pesticides

  Residents and workers in a major Pakistan city are exposed to harmful levels of pesticides, new research reveals.

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  'Chatty Factories’ could save production line time and money

  Researchers at Lancaster University are to work on a new £1.5m project to create a system in which products can ‘talk’ to the factory floor to transform the modern manufacturing process.

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  Child-proofing the 'Internet of Things'

  Computer scientists are to explore how children can stay safe and retain their privacy as they engage with the ‘Internet of Things’ (IoT).

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  Professor at opening of Lancashire’s Clinical Research Facility

  Professor Hedley Emsley was one of the speakers at the official opening of the National Institute for Health Research’s Lancashire Clinical Research Facility.

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  Scientists discover systems of change behind everything from climate to health

  A new field of science is being developed by Lancaster researchers who are discovering the underlying mechanisms of interaction behind everything from the human body to climate change.

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  Lancaster researchers ranked among world's most influential

  Lancaster University researchers have been listed in the Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researchers list for 2017.

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  Amazonian streams found teeming with fish species are lacking protection

  Hundreds of thousands of Amazonian streams are teeming with highly diverse populations of fish species, a new study reveals.

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  Hidden nitrate pollution beneath our feet threatens water supplies worldwide

  Researchers have quantified for the first time the long term threat to global drinking water posed by agricultural pollution trapped in the rocks beneath our feet.

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  American and British English - it’s all rather fascinating

  It’s pretty clear gradable adverbs – words like rather, quite and really – are on the decline on both sides of the Atlantic together with fixed phrases – such as ‘more or less’, ‘two or three’ and  ‘for the most part’.