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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
