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article News story: People trust scientific experts more than the government even when the evidence is outlandish
12, July , 2018

Members of the public in the UK and US have far greater trust in scientific experts than the government, according to a new study by Queen Mary University of London.

A bumblebee choosing between two patterns containing different numbers of yellow circles. Credit Lars Chittka article News story: Bees can count with just four nerve cells in their brains
21, December , 2018

Bees can solve seemingly clever counting tasks with very small numbers of nerve cells in their brains, according to researchers at Queen Mary University of London.

Representatives from Queen Mary and A*STAR including Professor Ng Huck Hui (centre) and Professor Colin Grant (third from right) article News story: Queen Mary and A*STAR launch collaborative PhD projects
20, December , 2018

A set of new collaborative PhD projects has been launched by Queen Mary University of London and A*STAR (Agency for Science, Technology and Research) Singapore.

EEG AND tACS in use article News story: Brainwaves suppress obvious ideas to help us think more creatively
10, December , 2018

The human brain needs to suppress obvious ideas in order to reach the most creative ones, according to scientists at Queen Mary University of London and Goldsmiths, University of London.

Professor Mark Sandler speaking at the event article News story: Music’s changing fast: FAST is changing music
27, November , 2018

Showcasing the culmination of five years of digital music research, the FAST IMPACt project (Fusing Audio and Semantic Technologies for Intelligent Music Production and Consumption), led by Queen Mary University of London, hosted an invite-only industry day at Abbey Road Studios.

Artist’s impression of Barnard's star b orbiting Barnard’s Star. Credit ESO-M. Kornmesser article News story: Astronomers discover super-Earth around Barnard’s star
14, November , 2018

Astronomers have discovered a planet in orbit around one of the closest stars to the Sun, Barnard’s star.

article News story: Understanding of forensic science is poor in UK criminal justice system
29, October , 2018

The level of understanding of forensic science among lawyers, judges, and juries is poor, according to evidence submitted to parliament by a group of researchers from Queen Mary University of London.

London Sinfionetta perform the original piece article News story: Clapping Music app reveals that changing rhythm isn’t so easy
21, October , 2018

Scientists at Queen Mary University of London have developed an app to understand why some rhythms are more difficult to perform than others.

The Alan Turing Institute article News story: Turing Institute announces 46 new Fellows from Queen Mary
19, October , 2018

The Alan Turing Institute has welcomed 46 new Turing Fellows from Queen Mary University of London.

Dr Martin Archer (second from right) with students from Eltham Hill School and Queen Mary's Professor David Berman article News story: School students identify sounds caused by solar storm
17, October , 2018

School students have successfully identified sounds caused by a solar storm in the Earth’s magnetic shield, as part of a Queen Mary University of London research project.

SSFX Anthology article News story: Anthology film made from the sounds of space now free to watch online
17, October , 2018

Alien may have told you “In space no one can hear you scream”, but it was wrong!

TERRA will exploit the large bandwidths offered by terahertz (THz) operating frequencies to help meet the demand for bandwidth use article News story: Next generation of antenna research secured with £1.2m grant
5, October , 2018

Queen Mary University of London has secured funding of £1.2m to research the next generation of antennas required for mobile communications.

L-R: Professor Diana Lopez, Dr Ana Jorge Sobrido and Professor Magda Titirici article News story: Queen Mary researchers nominated for £200K science prize
4, October , 2018

Two researchers from Queen Mary University of London are part of a team that is shortlisted to win a £200,000 science prize for their work in creating sustainable energy storage technologies from palm tree residue in Colombia. 

article News story: Mini-festival of new music and alternative approaches to musical creativity launches
13, September , 2018

Pioneering names in electronic music will come together for a festival that celebrates new approaches to musical creation and creativity, hosted by Queen Mary University of London.

article News story: Opt-out organ donation register unlikely to increase number of donations
16, August , 2018

An opt-out organ donation register is unlikely to increase the number of donations, according to a new study from Queen Mary University of London.

Honeybees and larvae. Credit Ryszard Maleszka article News story: Epigenetic patterns determine if honeybee larvae become queens or workers
22, August , 2018

Scientists at Queen Mary University of London and The Australian National University have unravelled how changes in nutrition in the early development of honeybees can result in vastly different adult characteristics.

Dr Alan McElligott with goat article News story: Goats prefer happy people
29, August , 2018

Goats can differentiate between human facial expressions and prefer to interact with happy people, according to a new study led by scientists at Queen Mary University of London.

article News story: Versions of Han Solo’s blaster exist – and they’re way more powerful than real lightsabers would be
24, May , 2018

Dr Martin Archer from Queen Mary’s School of Physics and Astronomy had an article published in The Conversation about how feasible the blaster weapons used by, among others, the Star Wars character Han Solo are – and how they compare with lightsabers.

article News story: Study identifies how social norms change
3, August , 2018

Social conventions, such as shaking hands or dressing formally, allow us to coordinate smoothly and, once established, appear to be natural. Yet they evolve in time, for example today we do not accept a duel as a way to settle a dispute. But what happens when a new convention replaces an old one? This question has remained largely unanswered so far, due to the lack of suitable data.

Senescent obesity in C. elegans. When C. elegans become old, they develop a severe type of obesity, with large pools of fat filling up the body. In this image, fats have been stained with a dye to visualise the fat pools. article News story: Genes drive ageing, making normal processes damaging
9, August , 2018

Ageing in worms mainly results from the direct action of genes and not from random wear and tear or loss of function, and the same is likely to be true in humans, according to research by UCL, Lancaster University and Queen Mary University of London scientists.

article News story: Scientists design material that can store energy like an eagle’s grip
9, August , 2018

What do a flea and an eagle have in common? They can store energy in their feet without having to continuously contract their muscles to then jump high or hold on to prey. Now scientists at Queen Mary University of London and University of Cambridge have created materials that can store energy this way, be squeezed repeatedly without damage, and even change shape if necessary.  

article News story: Queen Mary project to reduce aircraft noise awarded funding
5, July , 2018

A new project led by engineers at Queen Mary University of London that aims to reduce aircraft noise has won significant funding from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC).

article News story: Queen Mary students gear up for racing car event
10, July , 2018

Students from Queen Mary University of London will be competing at Silverstone this week in the 2018 Formula Student, Europe's most established educational engineering competition.

article News story: ‘Lower status’ people more likely to share wealth than ‘higher status’ people
28, June , 2018

When playing an economic game those that were assigned as ‘lower status’ were more likely to share their wealth than their ‘higher status’ counterparts, according to a new study at Queen Mary University of London.

Credit:Tero Vesalainen article News story: Movie Pirates of the Caribbean: Illegal streaming platforms vulnerable to copyright enforcers
29, June , 2018

Fifty-eight per cent of a new kind of online video piracy is based in just two locations making them more vulnerable to copyright enforcers than previously thought, according to research by Queen Mary University of London.

The inside of the Super-Kamiokande detector without water. Credit: Kamioka Observatory, ICRR (Institute for Cosmic Ray Research), The University of Tokyo article News story: Queen Mary neutrino research on show at Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition
30, June , 2018

One of the big unsolved mysteries in physics is what happened to all the antimatter after the Big Bang - the answer may lie in neutrinos.

 Archaeological dog remains. Photograph by Del Baston, courtesy of the Center for American Archeology article News story: Ancient American dogs almost completely wiped out by arrival of European breeds
6, July , 2018

The arrival of Europeans to the Americas, beginning in the 15th century, all but wiped out the dogs that had lived alongside native people on the continent for thousands of years, according to new research led by Queen Mary University of London.

article News story: One in five British mammals face extinction
13, June , 2018

Almost one in five of British mammal species face a high risk of extinction, according to the first comprehensive review of their populations for more than 20 years launched by The Mammal Society and Natural England, and involving Queen Mary University of London.

Swamp sparrow article News story: American swamp sparrows have sung the same songs for more than 1,000 years
20, June , 2018

American swamp sparrows may have sung the same songs for more than 1,000 years and passed them on through generations by learning, according to researchers at Queen Mary University of London, Imperial College London and Duke University.

Queen Mary student Anjali Bhatt interviewed by BBC Wales article News story: Queen Mary students compete in prestigious drone competition
25, June , 2018

Students from Queen Mary University of London’s Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) society have competed in the UAS Challenge 2018 - a leading annual student competition in the aerospace sector.

The instrument will combine two electrochemical imaging techniques which measure cell responses on the top and bottom layer article News story: Queen Mary awarded funding to build instrument which will revolutionise monitoring of cellular processes
29, May , 2018

Queen Mary University of London has been awarded funding to lead a joint project to build an instrument which will revolutionise the monitoring of cellular processes in tissues that line organs.

A close-up of the enamel-like material article News story: Scientists develop material that could regenerate dental enamel
1, June , 2018

Researchers at Queen Mary University of London have developed a new way to grow mineralised materials which could regenerate hard tissues such as dental enamel and bone.

A captive bumblebee walks across the surface of an artificial flower, working out the pattern of scent that has been made by placing peppermint oil in some of the holes. Credit: Dave Lawson article News story: Clever bees can identify different flowers by patterns of scent
13, June , 2018

Bumblebees can tell flowers apart by patterns of scent, according to new research involving Queen Mary University of London and led by the University of Bristol.

Queen Mary InQUBEate team working with a mentor article News story: Queen Mary entrepreneurs supported by £50,000 Santander Universities fund
14, June , 2018

Queen Mary University of London has been awarded a grant of £50,000 as part of Santander Universities Enterprise and Entrepreneurship Fund.

Professor Magda Titirici article News story: Queen Mary chemist wins prestigious Royal Society of Chemistry Prize
10, May , 2018

Professor Magdalena Titirici, who works in the School of Engineering and Materials Science, is the Royal Society of Chemistry Corday-Morgan Prize winner for 2018.

The transformation of the MOF into a nano-diatom is much like the metamorphosis of a dragon egg into a fire-born dragon when given fire treatment in Game of Thrones. Credit: Dr Jingwei Hou article News story: Scientists discover how a pinch of salt can improve battery performance
14, May , 2018

Researchers at Queen Mary University of London, University of Cambridge and Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research have discovered how a pinch of salt can be used to drastically improve the performance of batteries.

article News story: Glass sculpture inspired by research at Queen Mary’s School of Physics and Astronomy
22, May , 2018

A glass sculpture has been unveiled at Queen Mary’s School of Physics and Astronomy – inspired by the research that takes place there.

Plodia interpunctella article News story: Competition between males improves resilience against climate change
18, April , 2018

Animal species with males who compete intensively for mates might be more resilient to the effects of climate change, according to research by Queen Mary University of London.

article News story: Technology network awarded funding to capture musculoskeletal degeneration
20, April , 2018

Queen Mary University of London - as part of a group of universities, hospitals and research centres - has been awarded funding to create a network seeking to develop new, high energy imaging methods to capture the dynamic biochemical and biophysical processes in biological samples.

Cybathlon team members article News story: Queen Mary student team to build robotic wheelchair for Cybathlon 2020
3, May , 2018

A team of science and engineering students from Queen Mary University of London will design a robotic wheelchair with a plan to compete in Cybathlon 2020 - a global competition for people with disabilities.

Professor Yang Hao article News story: Queen Mary awarded £3m to develop software defined materials
14, May , 2018

Queen Mary University of London has been awarded approximately £3m to develop software defined materials, which will enable rapid development of future generation communication systems, intelligent technologies and infrastructures including the internet-of-things, security imaging systems and robotics.

Dr Tina Chowdhury article News story: Storytelling project for engineers and young east Londoners wins funding
5, April , 2018

A Queen Mary University of London project which aims to give engineers the skills to create digital stories about how their work can improve the world has received funding from the Ingenious Awards.

Organ-on-a-Chip Device; Credit Emulate, Inc. article News story: Queen Mary awarded funding to establish organ-on-a-chip UK network
16, April , 2018

Queen Mary University of London has been awarded funding to lead a UK network in the development of ‘Organ-on-a-chip’ devices.

article News story: Queen Mary ‘Pint of Science’ brings scientists out of the lab and in to your local pub
12, April , 2018

Scientists from Queen Mary University of London will be taking part in the 2018 Pint of Science festival from 14 to 16 May.

Dr Christopher Walker of the ITS Research Infrastructure team with the new computers article News story: Queen Mary invests in cutting-edge artificial intelligence computers
9, March , 2018

Two supercomputers have been installed at Queen Mary University of London to support research into deep learning and artificial intelligence (AI).

Madeleine Hart article News story: Queen Mary student takes her research to Parliament
12, March , 2018

A PhD student from Queen Mary University of London presented her research to the Houses of Parliament as part of a Parliamentary poster competition.

 Restoration of the head of Nasutoceratops. Credit: Andrey Atuchin article News story: Dinosaur frills and horns did not evolve for species recognition
21, March , 2018

The elaborate frills and horns of a group of dinosaurs including Triceratops and Styracosaurus did not evolve to help species recognise each other, according to researchers at Queen Mary University of London. 

A promotional shot of the rollercoaster. David Parry/PA Wire article News story: Queen Mary researcher helps develop rollercoaster which charges your phone
28, March , 2018

A researcher from Queen Mary University of London has used his expertise in energy harvesting applications to help develop a rollercoaster which charges your phone.

Cells can ‘walk’ on liquids a bit like the way geckos stick to other surfaces using shear forces article News story: Cells ‘walk’ on liquids a bit like geckos
19, February , 2018

Researchers at Queen Mary University of London have discovered that cells can ‘walk’ on liquids a bit like the way geckos stick to other surfaces.

Professor Sir Colin Humphreys article News story: Materials expert joins Queen Mary University of London
23, February , 2018

Professor Sir Colin Humphreys, CBE, FREng, FRS, the renowned British physicist and materials expert, is set to join Queen Mary University of London as Professor of Materials Science.

The response of a network to node failure depending on the configuration of the nodes initially damaged article News story: New mathematical framework establishes the risk of dramatic collapses of real networks
28, February , 2018

A theoretical framework explaining the risk of rare events causing major disruptions in complex networks, such as a blackout in a power grid, has been proposed by a mathematician at Queen Mary University of London.

Two of the awardees: Calvin Cheng and Dilani Selvanathan article News story: Queen Mary students awarded national bursary for engineering
2, March , 2018

Three students from Queen Mary University of London have been awarded an Engineering Horizons Bursary from The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET).

article News story: Queen Mary and UAL receive grant to co-develop new curriculum model for games design
7, February , 2018

Queen Mary University of London, in partnership with London College of Communication, part of the University of the Arts London (UAL), has been granted £158,354 from the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) to develop a games design curriculum. 

School kids at the Lego League article News story: School teams solve world water problems with Lego robots at Queen Mary competition
13, February , 2018

Teams from schools across London competed to solve the world’s water problems with Lego robots at an event hosted by Queen Mary University of London’s School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science (EECS).

Cells spreading on the outside of a scaffold article News story: New printing technique uses cells and molecules to recreate biological structures
16, February , 2018

Researchers from Queen Mary University of London have developed a printing technique using cells and molecules normally found in natural tissues to create constructs that resemble biological structures.

Institute of Coding logo article News story: Nationwide institute to plug digital skills gap
25, January , 2018

Queen Mary University of London is part of a £40 million initiative to create the next generation of digital specialists, announced today in a speech by the UK’s Prime Minister in Davos. Known as the Institute of Coding (IoC), Queen Mary will spearhead the theme of boosting equality and diversity in technology-related education and careers.

article News story: Cells in the heart sense stiffness by measuring contraction forces and resting tension simultaneously
26, January , 2018

Researchers from Queen Mary University of London have identified a new mechanism in which adhesive structures within the cells of the heart sense stiffness through muscle contractions and resting tension at the same time.

article News story: Researchers unravel the time of origin of flowering plants
6, February , 2018

Flowering plants likely originated between 149 and 256 million years ago according to new research involving Queen Mary University of London, and led by University College London (UCL).

article News story: Impact of renewables and trading on power grid frequency fluctuations
10, January , 2018

The effect of energy trading is strong and comparable in size to the effect of renewables on the frequency fluctuations of a power grid, according to a new study published in Nature Energy.

Youth participating in the study for the collection of hair samples. Credit: Taghyeer Organization article News story: Intervention reduces ‘stress hormone’ in war-affected youth
12, January , 2018

A new study shows that a humanitarian program to improve the mental health of adolescents affected by the Syrian war has decreased levels of cortisol (a hormone associated with stress) in participants by a third.

article News story: Mathematicians develop model for how new ideas emerge
24, January , 2018

Researchers from Queen Mary University of London have developed a mathematical model for the emergence of innovations.   

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