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Building acoustic computers with tuneable phononic crystals

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Dr Banerjee and colleagues have developed a deaf band-based model to use in building acoustic computers, using tuneable phononic crystals.

For more than two decades, physicists have been investigating wave propagation in phononic crystals, a metamaterial designed to control sound waves. A recent consideration involves using phononic crystals in acoustic […]

Making English orthography fun: A mathematically-oriented reform

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Motivation and basics of our ‘mathematically oriented reform’ of English orthography The desire to shorten texts to reduce the effort of writing has always been very popular. This has led […]

Mary Blachford Tighe, ‘Lost’ Romantic Poet

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Woman, Romantic, poet Among female poets of the 1790s and early 1800s, the Irish poet Mary Blachford Tighe (1772-1810) is a remarkable example of a woman whose work, though highly […]

Bio soups: Producing safe and functional food

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A review of the use of lyophilised aqueous mushroom extracts in bio soups, a functional and safe food to provide immune health support.

Characterisation of bio soups Dehydrated soups are beneficial in a number of ways as they are durable, nutritious, and can support a person’s health. Despite their numerous positives, dehydrated soups […]

Research Outreach – Issue 136: Private messages, browning vegetables, and unnecessary organs

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Research Outreach Issue 136 has a wide range of thought-provoking articles that reveal the scope of research in the modern world. Ranging from the genomic editing of eggplant to an […]

Research Outreach – Issue 137: Transgressive poets, chronic pain, and self-assembling nanomaterials

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Research Outreach Issue 137 continues to showcase the intriguing work being carried out by researchers across all disciplines from the evolution of hair to building a more effective acoustic computer, […]

Research Outreach – Issue 138: Trojan horses, capitalist utopias, and a fuzzy future

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Our most recent issue of Research Outreach brings together a diverse array of subjects at the forefront of academic research. We showcase the FMsquare Foundation, an organisation that aims to […]

The pulse oximetry ‘epidemic’, or the limitations of pulse oximetry

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Research Outreach _ Community Content. An image of a pulse oximeter

Pulse oximetry in practice Pulse oximetry first became available in the mid-1980s and has since become the most common form of medical electronic monitoring. It has far outstripped electrocardiography (ECG) […]

Plastic Free July 2023: Small changes to make big differences

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Research Outreach - Plastic Free July 2023. A selection of articles for Plastic Free July. The image is a pair of hands cupping a globe made of plastic fibres on a blue background.

Founded in 2011, the Plastic Free July campaign is the brainchild of the Plastic Free Foundation, a global social movement that is working towards a plastic free world. It is […]

Recycling refinery final molasses with ionic membranes

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The researchers engineered a novel ionic membrane to purify refinery final molasses and produce high-value chemical feedstock.

Refinery final molasses is one of the key products in the industrial production of sugar from sugarcane, and its global annual output reaches 55 million tonnes. Although molasses is rich […]