News from 2015
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‘Fingerprint’ technique spots frog populations at risk from pollution
Researchers at Lancaster University have found a way to detect subtle early warning signs that reveal a frog population is at risk from pollution.
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Businesses must do more to take action on soil, Lancaster sustainability expert argues in latest edition of Nature
Companies are unaware of the huge risks they face from soil degradation.
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Natural measures to prevent floods valuable but not ‘a silver bullet’, researchers say
Natural measures to manage flooding from rivers can play a valuable role in flood prevention, but a lack of monitoring means their true potential remains unclear, researchers say.
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Astronomers unveil the role of the cosmic web across cosmic time
Astronomers have sampled 40,000 distant galaxies to better understand how galaxies like our own Milky Way have formed and evolved over cosmic time.
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£2M physics award for quantum turbulence
Lancaster and Manchester Universities have won a joint £2M award for physics research which may lead to “significant technological impact in the longer term.”
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Hydrogeophysics students conduct topographic survey of University facility
A team of hydrogeophysics research students have used advanced GPS and ultrasound to conduct a survey of Forrest Hills lake.
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QS World Ranking Success for Science and Technology
This year’s QS World Rankings have positively highlighted a number of departments from within the Faculty of Science and Technology, including commendable results in Environmental Sciences, Geography, and Statistics and Operational Research, which have all been ranked in the top 100.
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NASA rover technology to map nuclear sites
Lancaster engineers are part of a team which will map some of the world’s most radioactive sites using sensing technology mounted on an advanced robotic vehicle.
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National Corpus of Contemporary Welsh
The development of the first ever large-scale collection of Welsh words that represents the full range of language used by people in everyday life is underway.
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University celebrates International Women’s Day
To mark International Women’s Day 2017, we are launching a Twitter campaign using the hashtag #weareLancasterwomen and we want you to get involved.