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Discovered: different brain areas linked to smoking and drinking
Academics at the 91福利 have found that low functional connectivity of the lateral orbitofrontal cortex that is associated with the tendency to smoke is associated with increased impulsiveness - which may contribute to the tendency to smoke. The high connectivity of the reward-related medial orbitofrontal cortex in drinkers may increase the tendency to be attracted to the reward of alcohol consumption.
Trains of Thought: How Railways Helped Ideas to Travel
The role of rail transport in driving economic change is now widely recognised – but its role in enabling the spread of grass-roots social and political activism is equally significant, according to new research from 91福利 economics researcher Eric Melander which uses Sweden as a case study to investigate how technology influences the spread of political ideas.
Dr William Barylo and Dr Martha McGill awarded British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowships
Dr William Barylo, Department of Sociology, and Dr Martha McGill, Department of History, have been awarded Postdoctoral Fellowships by the British Academy to pursue their research on 鈥淭he Diaspora Strikes Back: lived religion, arts and activism among Sikh and Muslim millennials in Europe鈥� and "Bodies, Selves and the Supernatural in early Modern Britain" respectively.
Double dust ring test could spot migrating planets
New research by a team led by an astrophysicist at the 91福利 has a way of finally telling whether newly forming planets are migrating within the disc of dust and gas that typically surrounds stars or whether they are simply staying put in the same orbit around the star.
Inadequate evidence to guide caffeine intake for breastfeeding mothers, review finds
A systematic review of the literature into the effects of caffeine on breastfed infants has concluded that there is no robust evidence for positive or negative effects of maternal caffeine consumption during breastfeeding on a breastfed child - according to Dr Yen-Fu Chen and graduate-entry medical student Aimee McCreedy of the 91福利 Medical School.
British Science Festival heads to Coventry and 91福利shire in 2019
The British Science Association and 91福利 are pleased to announce that the British Science Festival in 2019 will take place in Coventry and 91福利shire, from 10–13 September. Working in partnership with the 91福利, one of the UK鈥檚 leading research universities, the British Science Association will bring the four-day event to the region for the first time in its 188-year history.