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22 Oct 2014: When Eyjafjallajӧkull erupted in 2010 in Iceland, the ash cloud it emitted stranded around half of the world’s air traffic, with an estimated global economic cost of US $5 billion.

16 Sep 2014: Professor Middleton continued: “The Forth Road Bridge offers a fantastic opportunity to test this innovative technology which will provide key information to the bridge owners and managers, leading to knowledge and

9 Jul 2014: The Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Science recipient, Amartya Sen, received an honorary doctorate in 2009.

9 Mar 2014: Today Anqing is a conurbation of 5.3 million people – a place where there is comparatively little evidence of either its turbulent history or modern China’s economic boom.

12 Mar 2014: The film – Finding My Way – was made by a group of young people in Cambridgeshire who were themselves facing the challenge of leaving care. As well as helping

5 Feb 2014: Their mental health is also at risk. Forced migrations are often the result of violent events or economic hardship, which can have profound psychological consequences. ... In terms of economic forced migration, we find that both labour-receiving

30 Jan 2014: Synthetic biology has the potential to drive economic growth but still remains relatively untapped and these new centres will ensure that the UK is at the forefront when it comes to ... Social scientists on the OpenPlant project will help map feasible

13 Mar 2014: Professor Venkitaraman’s Unit will be opening its doors on Sunday 23 March for the event Behind the scenes of cancer research. Visitors will be able to join

19 Nov 2014: She leads the European-Union-funded Adaptive Brain Computations project, which brings together behavioural scientists, computer scientists, pharmacologists and neuroscientists across eight European universities, plus industrial partners, to

26 Feb 2014: Data extrapolated from BHPS (1991–2008) and its successor survey, Understanding Society, which is run from the University of Essex’s Institute for Social and Economic Research and funded primarily by ... the Economic and Social Research Council, can

10 Feb 2014: For others, a moral and political principle of freedom of movement accompanied this more expedient economic rationale.

3 Oct 2014: The team included controls for the average disaster fatality risk and non-disaster geographic characteristics, such as economic conditions, crime rates and the quality of education.

28 Mar 2014: Added Snaith: “This luminescent behaviour is an excellent test for solar cell performance – poorer luminescence (as in amorphous silicon solar cells) reduces both the quantum efficiency (current collected) and also the

20 Aug 2014: The research, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, used data drawn from the Avon Longitudinal Survey of Parents and Children (ALSPAC), a study of 13,998 births in the

21 Feb 2014: The authors of the paper acknowledge that Greece’s healthcare system was in need of reorganisation well before its economic plight came to the world’s attention.

8 Mar 2014: This data is seen as crucial for understanding the economic role of the household, and individual household members, within the wider formal economy.

11 Nov 2014: Longer-term tests on larger objects will investigate how well it supports the wood from the inside. ... I look forward to the next stage in this research where tests will be carried out on larger wooden artefacts.”.

4 Feb 2014: Eun Hee Lee - a researcher working with Dr Simone Schnall at Cambridge’s Department of Psychology - carried out a series of tests in which volunteers were surreptitiously surveyed about their own ... They were then tasked with lifting a number of boxes

28 Aug 2014: With 35,000 new cases every year in the UK, and around 10,000 deaths, prostate cancer is the second most common cancer in men worldwide. Rates are higher in

4 Dec 2014: Founded by Ludlow-Palafox, with Chase as R&D Director, Enval is using the plant to demonstrate the capabilities and economics of the process to investors and waste handlers. ... By demonstrating the societal and economic benefits of green technologies,

7 Apr 2014: She continued: “The conference will look at the major surge in record-keeping in the early modern world against the backdrop of wider technological, intellectual, political, religious and economic developments.

3 Oct 2014: that specialises in developing secondary uses for existing drugs, to test drugs that she hopes will be able to amplify this signal and increase the repair process. ... A clinical trial to test these effects is currently undergoing preparation,”

20 Jun 2014: It will also support fundamental science: “Construction of these parts will allow us to test our understanding of natural plant systems in which assemblages of parts create a greater whole,” Baulcombe ... The Marchantia polymorpha liverwort is small,

28 Mar 2014: If Russia invades beyond Crimea, Ukrainians will defend themselves. And Europe will be witness to a war between its largest countries, with dire economic and human costs for us all. ... Even despite economic disparity with its powerful neighbour, most

10 Jun 2014: For centuries, indigenous peoples in the Arctic navigated the land, sea, and ice, using knowledge of trails that was passed down through the generations. Now,

17 Feb 2014: They demonstrated this using a memory test completed on the first cohort consisting of systematically recording episodes recollected from an individual's life - known as ‘autobiographical memory’ - under standardised test conditions.

26 Aug 2014: Most then return to China and cannot reapply. However, if they pass a test they can extend their visa for up to three years, depending on the area they are working

26 Feb 2014: Using this method, cells from one mouse could be used to test 1000 drug compounds to treat liver disease, and reduce animal use by up to 50,000. ... By using the liver culture system I developed, we can test 1000 compounds using cells that come from only

21 Jul 2014: Routine lab tests suggested that the type of MRSA in each case was the same, indicating a possible outbreak.

12 Apr 2014: Many contemporary commentators identified the debasement of the coinage as a root cause of England’s economic problems, and they also went much further linking it to widespread social disorder, disruption

24 Oct 2014: At the same time, radiologists and engineers were able to use the data from the non-human bodies to test not yet clinically approved software on the images, furthering research for

22 Dec 2014: The researchers say that economic policy reforms advocated by the IMF have undermined the capacity of health systems in these three nations – systems already fragile from legacies of conflict and state ... Firstly, the IMF required economic reforms

23 Jan 2014: This cancer, which causes grotesque genital tumours in dogs around the world, first arose in a single dog that lived about 11,000 years ago. The cancer

1 Dec 2014: Research undertaken by Hargreaves also examined the relationship between socio-economic disadvantage and household crime such as burglary and car theft. ... The research incorporated data from a ‘Multiple Deprivation Index’, a ten-tier classification

19 Nov 2014: A Victorian website is an impossibility. But reality hasn’t deterred Rhys Morgan and Robert West – a ‘dashing duo’ of Victorian magic-makers – from conjuring

29 Nov 2014: In order to test whether two- and three-year-olds are able not only to retain the what-when-where of an episodic memory but also to recall these three in ... a holistic, non-elemental way, the team gave more than 370 pre-schoolers two kinds of memory test

22 Apr 2014: the age of five faces up to 19,000 injections and 50,000 finger prick blood tests by the time they are 18.

1 Dec 2014: These XNAzymes are capable of catalysing simple reactions, like cutting and joining strands of RNA in a test tube.

11 Nov 2014: The environmental science community’s response to the awards has been outstanding, with 82 applications of an exceptional standard submitted across four categories of impact: economic, social, early-career and international,

7 Jan 2014: The approach we have used to test willow genes in Arabidopsis could be widely useful for assessing functional genetic diversity in slow-growing species.”.

10 Dec 2014: of communication between general practitioners and specialists, and easier access to specialist tests such as scans and endoscopies. ... But they stress that novel diagnostic tests will need to be developed for cancers that are more difficult to detect.

1 Oct 2014: In addition, human stem cells grown in the laboratory can be used to produce experimental models of diseased tissues and to test therapeutic drugs.

7 May 2014: It was not until the advent of the Second World War, ten years after the initial stock market crash, that economic output in the US recovered its pre-1929 levels. ... This devastating period of economic meltdown caused untold hardship to millions in the

10 Apr 2014: Lane, who is a Fellow of St John’s College, Cambridge, and Emeritus Professor of Economic Sociology, said: “Part of the motivation for the study was the need for a better ... In part, the study suggests the evolution has been hindered by a shortage

19 Sep 2014: Two eminent scientists have made an impassioned appeal to the world’s religious leaders for help in curbing the potentially catastrophic effects of the ongoing

13 Jun 2014: The Honorary Professor of Social and Economic Geography received the Victoria Medal “for conspicuous merit in human geography”.

16 Oct 2014: The researchers believe that a combination of such tests could help improve accuracy in the prognosis for a patient. ... used in isolation, combined with other tests it could help in the clinical assessment of patients.

10 Jun 2014: The researchers looked for an immune cell called a killer T cell which specialises in destroying rogue cells in the body, such as cancer cells. The Cancer

6 Nov 2014: Elsewhere, he perhaps surprisingly argues that the widespread view that England is in a state of post-Imperial political and economic decline is a myth. ... Another eye-catching argument within Tombs’ extensive survey is that “declinism” – the

18 Dec 2014: The research that led to the development of the drug began in the mid-1990s in the lab of Professor Steve Jackson at the Wellcome Trust/Cancer Research UK