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Flooding in the Aire: why we can reduce floods in the UK

By |2016-01-19T10:08:25+00:0019/01/2016|Environment|

As a researcher looking at sediment transport and storage in the Leeds Flood Alleviation Scheme, I need rain. Rain causes surface runoff and runoff causes erosion, which eventually results in sediment transported towards and within the river. When I ...

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Reviving UK manufacturing – is cross-sector collaboration the answer?

By |2016-01-11T15:30:17+00:0011/01/2016|Manufacturing and Materials|

The British Chambers of Commerce’s Quarterly Economic Survey for Q4 2015, published last week, calls the UK manufacturing sector “close to stagnation”  after domestic and export sales and order balances fell below their (2007) pre-recession levels. ...

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#DammitJanet: who was behind the cyber attack on JANET (the Joint Academic Network) and how did they do it? And are we facing the age of the zombie fridges?

By |2015-12-15T16:40:38+00:0015/12/2015|Defence and Security|

Last week, the Janet IT network that supports the UK research and education community came under a targeted and sustained DDoS attack that took days to fend off. Universities are commonly targets for phishing attacks, ...

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After COP21, could a sunshield for the Earth prevent further global warming and climate change?

By |2015-12-15T09:22:39+00:0015/12/2015|Aerospace, Astronautics and Space Engineering MSc, Environment|

The COP21 climate talks in Paris set challenging targets to try and curb global warming by keeping the global temperature rise to 'well below' 2°C.  Why does this matter?  One of climate scientists’ fears is ...

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