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Professor Sir Mark Caulfield awarded medal from the Embassy of Kuwait to recognise contributions to UK-Kuwait relations

Professor Sir Mark Caulfield was today awarded one of 125 medals from the Kuwaiti Cultural Office, recognising his excellence ...
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New report outlines global framework to support responsible innovation and leadership in AI

Queen Mary University of London and the Qatar Computing Research Institute at Hamad Bin Khalifa University have published Building Bridges in the Age of AI [PDF 3,747KB] which outlines a framework ...
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Queen Mary recognises outstanding individuals at winter graduations

As part of Queen Mary University of London’s 2025 winter graduation ceremonies, Paul Stephen and Dr Peter Waggett were ...
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Queen Mary partners with health giant Haleon to deliver doctoral training

A major new UK-wide doctoral training programme to research oral health and dental disease prevention is set to begin in ...
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Study shows dual use of cigarettes and vapes can reduce risks of smoking and help smokers quit

A new major study from Queen Mary University of London has found that smokers who use both cigarettes and e-cigarettes at the same time – known as dual use – are reducing their intake of harmful ...
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Bees learn to read simple ‘Morse code’

In Morse code, a short duration flash or ‘dot’ denotes a letter ‘E’ and a long duration flash, or ‘dash’, means letter ‘T’. Until now, the ability to discriminate between ‘dot’ and ‘dash’ has been ...
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Research first to show humans have remote touch “seventh sense” like sandpipers

This is the first time this sense has been observed in humans. Human touch is typically understood as a proximal sense, limited to what we physically touch. However, recent findings in animal sensory ...
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Plastic pollution could linger at ocean surfaces for over a century, new research finds

Scientists from the Department of Geography and Environmental Science at Queen Mary University of London have developed a simple model to show how buoyant plastic can settle through the water column ...
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Dr Rageshri Dhairyawan wins Campaigner for Health Equity Award at Women of the Year Awards

Dr Rageshri Dhairyawan has been awarded the Gilead & Kite Campaigner for Health Equity Award at the 2025 Women of the Year Lunch & Awards, recognising her pioneering leadership improving health equity ...
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New digital resource launched to showcase the contributions of South Asians to British life

South Asian Britain: Connecting Histories is a freely accessible website that brings together over 750 entries and 30 newly recorded oral histories. The site features digitised archival materials, ...
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Pioneering space probe reveals secrets of mysterious solar barrier

The solar atmosphere, or corona, is far hotter than the Sun's surface, a paradox that has puzzled scientists for decades. Furthermore, the constant outflow of plasma and magnetic fields from the Sun, ...
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British ash woodland is evolving resistance to ash dieback

Scientists at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and Queen Mary University of London have discovered that a new generation of ash trees, growing naturally in woodland, is showing greater resistance to the ...