A kaleidoscopic sculpture providing optical illusions is now located outside The Bill Douglas Cinema Museum on University of Exeter’s Streatham Campus.
The shiny new interactive sculpture of mirrored stainless steel entitled ‘Reflected Vision’ allows visitors to see themselves and the landscape around them through the mirrored surfaces both inside and outside the 7ft structure. Created by Scottish artist Kenny Munro, the sculpture was inspired by items from The Bill Douglas Cinema Museum, especially the pre-cinema objects and optical entertainments that create different ways of...
The University of Exeter hosted a prestigious visit from the Spanish Ambassador, as part of the 60th anniversary events surrounding the formation of the Association of Hispanists of Great Britain and Ireland.
His Excellency Don Federico Trillo-Figueroa attended the Association’s annual conference (13–15 April) and opened the 'Spain and England, Juan Luis Vives and Thomas More' exhibition on the Streatham Campus. Academics from the department of Modern Languages organised this year’s conference on behalf of the Association, which aims to promote scholarly research into the study of...
New research has shown that the ability to make a Stone Age hand axe depends on complex cognitive control and memory.
The recently published results knock another chip off theories that pre-historic hand axes are simple tools that don’t involve complex functions of the brain made by ape-men just banging rocks together.
University of Exeter Archaeologist Professor Bruce Bradley co-authored the research with Emory University (USA) and Aix-Marseille University (France) colleagues, which highlights how making stone tools provide some of the most abundant evidence of human...
Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) could provide an alternative non-drug treatment for people who do not wish to continue long-term antidepressant treatment, suggests new research carried out at the University of Exeter and published today in The Lancet.
The results come from the first ever large study to compare MBCT – structured training for the mind and body which aims to change the way people think and feel about their experiences – with maintenance antidepressant medication for reducing the risk of relapse in depression.
Popular North Sea fish such as haddock, plaice and lemon sole could become less common on our menus because they will be constrained to preferred habitat as seas warm, according to a study published in Nature Climate Change.
Fish distributions are limited by water temperature and some species can only thrive in certain habitats and depths. In the last 40 years the North Sea has warmed four times faster than the global average and further warming is predicted over the coming century, leading fisheries scientists to study how this will impact on commercial species.
Scientists in Cornwall are making a final appeal for people to take part in research that will shed light on the health effects of marine pollution.
To help them assess the health risks that ocean-goers might face, the researchers want to compare the health of people who venture into the waves with those who stay firmly on shore.
The University of Exeter Medical School is working with Surfers Against Sewage to conduct the study, with the final phase starting on Monday 13th April. They are asking adults living in England and Wales to respond to a short online survey,...
Pioneering new research has unlocked a new technique to help combat the rise of antibiotic-resistant bacteria, that cause debilitating and often life-threatening human illness.
Researchers from the University of Exeter has shown that the use of ‘sequential treatments’ – using alternating doses of antibiotics – might offer effective treatment against bacterial infection.
Crucially, the research also demonstrates this technique for administering treatment also reduces the risk of the bacteria becoming resistant to antibiotics, and so maintaining the long-term effectiveness of...
The New York City trio, Fun Lovin' Criminals are bringing their 20th Anniversary tour to Exeter's Great Hall next February.
Best known for their hit 'Scooby Snacks' which contains samples from Quentin Tarantino films. They create songs which are mainly about NYC and city life.
They have no specific genre but cover other genres like hip-hop, funk, jazz, rock and blues.
Tickets are £24.20 including booking fee. Link to tickets are found below.
A researcher at the University of Exeter has launched a bid to analyse the DNA of a group of flamingos in order to answer some of the questions surrounding paternity and social behaviour in the distinctive pink birds.
Paul Rose, a PhD student in the Centre for Research in Animal Behaviour, has been working with flamingos for three years at Slimbridge Wetlands Centre in Gloucestershire and is now embarking on a crowdfunding bid to genetically analyse who is related to who within the flock.
He said: “Flamingos are amazing birds. They have been around for millions of years and...
New research has discredited the popular belief that street lighting is attractive to common bats.
The study, carried out by scientists from the University of Exeter and Bat Conservation Ireland, found that bat activity was generally lower in street-lit areas than in dark locations with similar habitat.
The findings have important implications for conservation, overturning the previous assumption that common bats benefited from street-lights because they could feed on the insects that congregated around them.
The research, published in the journal Philosophical...
