Latest news News stories This area contains news from the University since October 2020. For stories from 2010 to October 2020, use the 'News archive' above or search at the top of the page. 29 April 2024 Digital playtime can be good for children’s well-being, major new report from University of Sheffield finds Video games used during play can benefit children’s well-being, if designed with their needs in mind, a new study from the University of Sheffield, LEGO Group and UNICEF has found. 1 May 2024 Longer-life smart MOPO batteries bringing renewable energy to Africa Longer-life MOPO Batteries that can help communities off-grid or with unstable power networks in Africa access clean and affordable energy, are being developed with the help of engineers from the University of Sheffield. 30 April 2024 Only four G20 countries set for positive ecological footprint by 2050, study finds The UK along with 15 of the G20 nations are forecast to have a negative ecological footprint by 2050, according to new research from the University of Sheffield. 25 April 2024 UK Clearing House for sustainable aviation fuels officially launches The UK sustainable aviation fuels Clearing House has officially launched, marking a major step in enabling the UK to bring new fuels to market and help reduce carbon emissions from the aviation industry. Search University of Sheffield history project to explore complex history of slavery in the region A new study of Sheffield’s industrial heritage ‘Sheffield, Slavery, and its Legacies’, records the city’s complex relationship with the Atlantic economy throughout the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries. 22 January 2022 University of Sheffield spin-out secures seed investment to revolutionise trust in global telecommunications and computing with quantum photonics University of Sheffield spin-out, Aegiq, has secured a seven-figure seed investment to develop next generation networking with quantum security. 20 January 2022 New AI model helps discover causes of motor neurone disease Scientists have developed a new machine learning model for the discovery of genetic risk factors for diseases such as Motor Neurone Disease (MND). 18 January 2022 Heart disease causes early brain dysfunction and can treble key Alzheimer’s protein (38017) Heart disease can directly cause brain dysfunction early on which could lead to dementia and can treble the amount of an Alzheimer’s protein in the brain, say scientists. 14 January 2022 Almost 800 subglacial lakes catalogued for first time in new global inventory The world’s first inventory of subglacial lakes has been compiled by an international team led by the University of Sheffield, providing a comprehensive directory of where the lakes are and how they are changing in a warming climate. 14 January 2022 Pagination First page « First Previous page ‹ Previous … Page 76 Page 77 Page 78 Page 79 Current page 80 Page 81 Page 82 Page 83 Page 84 … Next page Next › Last page Last »