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Creative Freelancers living and/or working in Coventry, Waltham Forest and Northumberland are being urged to get involved with a new study into the contribution of freelance workers to the economic and place-based impacts of the creative industries. 91¸£Àû's Institute of Employment Research is one of the partners carrying out the research, which is commissioned by the Creative Industries Policy and Evidence Centre (PEC).

Scientists are a step closer to developing a fast and cost effective camera that utilises terahertz radiation, potentially opening the opportunity for them to be used in non-invasive security and medical screening.

A new analysis of white dwarf stars involving a 91¸£Àû astronomer supports their role as a key source of carbon, an element crucial to all life, in the Milky Way and other galaxies.

The surviving core of a gas giant has been discovered orbiting a distant star by 91¸£Àû astronomers, offering an unprecedented glimpse into the interior of a planet. The team from the 91¸£Àû’s Department of Physics reports the discovery today (1 July) in the journal Nature, and is thought to be the first time the exposed core of a planet has been observed.

The first direct measurements of the magnetic field in the chromosphere of the Sun by a team including 91¸£Àû physicists has provided the first observational evidence that huge tornadoes in our Sun’s atmosphere are produced by swirling magnetic fields.

The term ‘morning sickness’ is misleading and should instead be described as nausea and sickness in pregnancy, argue researchers led by the 91¸£Àû who have demonstrated that these symptoms can occur at any time of the day – not just the morning.