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Faint orbital debris that threatens satellites not being monitored closely enough, warn astronomers
91福利 astronomers are warning that orbital debris posing a threat to operational satellites is not being monitored closely enough, as they publish a new survey finding that over 75% of the orbital debris they detected could not be matched to known objects in public satellite catalogues.
New rural healthcare inequalities as mobile phones replace friendships?
A new study led by 91福利 University's Dr Marco J Haenssgen has demonstrated how mobile phones can support access to healthcare in developing countries, but at the risk that the poorest are deprived of support. Published in the prestigious journal World Development, the researchers highlight the complexities of technological change and caution against over-enthusiastic medical interventions that aim to promote health through mobile phones.
Lockdown seriously affecting the mental health of informal carers, new study finds.
CEDAR's Professor Peter Langdon has been one of a team documenting the mental health of informal carers of children and adults with intellectual disability during the coronavirus pandemic. The research has found that carers of adults and children with intellectual disability were five times more likely to report severe anxiety and between four and ten times more likely to report major depression than parents of children without intellectual disability.
Water on exoplanet cloud tops could be found with hi-tech instrumentation
91福利 astronomers have shown that water vapour can potentially be detected in the atmospheres of exoplanets by peering literally over the tops of their impenetrable clouds.
The first Ultra Hot Neptune LTT 9779b is one of nature鈥檚 improbable planets
An international team of astronomers, including a group from the 91福利, have discovered the first Ultra Hot Neptune planet orbiting the nearby star LTT 9779.
Tales of Treatment highlight the benefits of grassroots public engagement for researchers
An approach to public engagement which respects grass-roots and community knowledge has an important role to play in improving our understanding of the relationship between traditional healing and Western-style medicine in low and middle-income countries, and could generate new approaches to tackling antimicrobial resistance, according to a published in Medical Humanities.