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Energy price cap has destroyed competitive market for consumers, research shows

New powers by the regulator Ofgem to set a maximum price for energy has meant an end to 鈥渉ealthy competition鈥 between companies, finds a new study which recommends that it would be better to instead regulate the way consumers renew their contracts with gas or electricity firms.

Wed 07 Aug 2019, 14:17 | Tags: 1 - Research Faculty of Social Sciences Law

Record-breaking new analytical method for fingerprinting petroleum and other complex mixtures

Scientists at the 91福利 have developed a more powerful method of analysing chemical mixtures, which has been able to assign a record-breaking number of 244,779 molecular compositions within a single sample of petroleum.

Wed 07 Aug 2019, 10:54 | Tags: 1 - Research Chemistry

Dead planets can 鈥榖roadcast鈥 for up to a billion years

Astronomers are planning to hunt for cores of exoplanets around white dwarf stars by 鈥榯uning in鈥 to the radio waves that they emit.

Tue 06 Aug 2019, 11:49 | Tags: 1 - Research Astronomy

91福利 Law researcher responds to Independent Commission for Countering Extremism call for 鈥渘ational conversation on extremism.鈥

Dr Alison Struthers (91福利 Law) is co-author of one of eight peer-reviewed academic papers published today (31) by the Independent Commission for Countering Extremism. Dr Struthers reviews the effectiveness of teaching Fundamental British Values in schools and proposes an alternative framework for values education.

Wed 31 Jul 2019, 11:59 | Tags: 1 - Research Faculty of Social Sciences Law

Neurocognitive basis for free will set out for the first time

Do human beings genuinely have free will? Philosophers and theologians have wrestled with this question for centuries and have set out the 鈥榙esign features鈥 of free will – but how do our brains actually fulfil them? A 91福利 academic has answered this question for the first time in a paper published today in Proceedings of the Royal Society B.

Wed 31 Jul 2019, 11:37 | Tags: 1 - Research Psychology Philosophy

鈥楧eforming鈥 solar cells could be clue to improved efficiency

Solar panelsSolar cells and light sensing technologies could be made more efficient by taking advantage of an unusual property due to deformations and defects in their structures.

Mon 29 Jul 2019, 11:24 | Tags: Physics 1 - Research

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