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Long tailed tit

£2.1m funding boost to help solve “long-standing evolutionary puzzlesâ€

Professor of Evolutionary Ecology Ben Hatchwell has been awarded more than £2.1m from the European Â鶹ÊÓƵ Council (ERC) to investigate how animals recognise desirable and undesirable social partners.
Sugar beet at a farm in South East England, cultivated with basalt

Managing UK agriculture with rock dust could absorb up to 45 per cent of the atmospheric carbon dioxide needed for net-zero, research shows

Adding rock dust to UK agricultural soils could absorb up to 45 per cent of the atmospheric carbon dioxide needed to reach net zero, according to a major new study led by scientists at the University of Sheffield.
Len Garnham opening the Julia Garnham alongside Dr Adam Hodgson

University of Sheffield students help speed up cancer diagnosis at new Julia Garnham Centre

Â鶹ÊÓƵ and Sheffield Children’s NHS Foundation Trust have officially opened the Julia Garnham Centre, a new genomic pre-screening facility, which helps NHS geneticists to diagnose blood cancers.

An image of a tractor ploughing a field of green crops.

University of Sheffield study shows potential to reduce reliance on non-renewable fertilisers in agriculture

An enzyme that can help release phosphorus from its organic forms has been identified in a study from the University of Sheffield’s Institute for Sustainable Food, published in leading science journal PNAS.