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- Laboratory Notebook Skills [pdf] https://www.dur.ac.uk/resources/physics/students/labs/skills/notebookskills.pdf 20 comments
- Laboratory Notebook Skills [pdf] https://www.dur.ac.uk/resources/physics/students/labs/skills/notebookskills.pdf 23 comments
- First manufactured non-cuttable material, made from alumina ceramic spheres encased in a cellular aluminium, metallic foam structure. https://www.dur.ac.uk/research/news/item/?itemno=42260 17 comments science
- A study involving nearly 3,000 primary-school students showed that learning philosophy at an early age can improve children’s social and communication skills, teamwork, resilience, and ability to empathize with others. https://www.dur.ac.uk/research/news/item/?itemno=31088 652 comments science
- A study involving nearly 3,000 primary-school students showed that learning philosophy at an early age can improve children’s social and communication skills, teamwork, resilience, and ability to empathize with others. https://www.dur.ac.uk/research/news/item/?itemno=31088 12 comments philosophy
- Uranus is a lopsided oddity, the only planet to spin on its side. Scientists now think they know how it got that way: It was pushed over by a rock at least twice as big as Earth https://www.dur.ac.uk/research/news/item/?itemno=35167 30 comments space
- A study involving nearly 3,000 primary-school students showed that learning philosophy at an early age can improve children’s social and communication skills, team work, resilience, and ability to empathise with others. https://www.dur.ac.uk/research/news/item/?itemno=31088 86 comments science
- A study involving nearly 3,000 primary-school students showed that learning philosophy at an early age can improve children’s social and communication skills, team work, resilience, and ability to empathise with others. https://www.dur.ac.uk/research/news/item/?itemno=31088 685 comments philosophy
- Men’s testosterone levels are largely determined by their environment during childhood - New study suggests that men who grow up in more challenging conditions are likely to have lower testosterone levels in later life than those who spend their childhood in healthier environments. https://www.dur.ac.uk/news/newsitem/?itemno=35110 528 comments science
- The risk of human-made earthquakes due to fracking is greatly reduced if high-pressure fluid injection used to crack underground rocks is 895m away from faults in the Earth's crust https://www.dur.ac.uk/news/newsitem/?itemno=33836 6 comments science
- English Civil War Graves Identified https://www.dur.ac.uk/archaeology/research/projects/europe/pg-skeletons/find/ 14 comments history
- Does Time Pass? Public Lecture by Simon Prosser https://www.dur.ac.uk/resources/ias/audio/simon%20prosser%20lecture.mp3 253 comments philosophy
- Microbes provide insights into evolution of human language: Big brains do not explain why only humans use sophisticated language, according to researchers who have discovered that even a species of pond life communicates by similar methods https://www.dur.ac.uk/news/newsitem/?itemno=20886 8 comments science
- Archaeologists have found the oldest complete example in the world of a human with metastatic cancer in a 3,000 year-old skeleton. https://www.dur.ac.uk/news/newsitem/?itemno=20563 64 comments science
- Star Trek Classroom: the next generation of school desks. Researchers designing and testing the ‘classroom of the future’ have found that multi-touch, multi-user desks can boost skills in mathematics. http://www.dur.ac.uk/news/newsitem/?itemno=15991 7 comments technology
- Cellular repair could reduce premature aging http://www.dur.ac.uk/news/newsitem/?itemno=13157 6 comments science
- Engineering students re-design the tin can to include everything you need to cook and eat the food it contains http://www.dur.ac.uk/news/newsitem/?itemno=4717 4 comments reddit.com