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Description: Scientists at the Universities of Birmingham and Staffordshire have jointly led the development of an online training package to assist midwives and obstetricians to carry out medical procedures to help women who have sustained a perineal injury during childbirth.
Date:: Tuesday 19th February 2013
Categories:: Medical and Dental Sciences, Research

Description: A European project to develop robotic tutors that will support teachers and motivate students in secondary schools is being led by University of Birmingham engineers and computer scientists, in collaboration with Heriot-Watt University and other European partners.
Date:: Monday 18th February 2013
Categories:: Engineering and Physical Sciences, Research

Description: Even though cormorants seem ideally placed to benefit from global warming, by expanding their breeding range into the far north, the darkness of the polar night is likely to keep them firmly in their place, according to research published this week by scientists at the University of Birmingham in the Journal of Zoology.
Date:: Monday 4th February 2013
Categories:: Life and Environmental Sciences, Research

Description: The Universities of Birmingham and Nottingham have strengthened their collaborations with Brazilian institutions after securing funding for a number of country-specific research projects. Academics from both universities have won funding from the São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) to undertake research into priority areas spanning the sciences, social sciences and humanities.
Date:: Monday 4th February 2013
Categories:: Engineering and Physical Sciences, International, Life and Environmental Sciences, Research, Social Sciences

Description: The University of Birmingham's School of Computer Science, along with 3 other leading university computer science departments in the UK, is taking part in a unique code-breaking competition as part of this year's Cyber Security Challenge UK.
Date:: Friday 25th January 2013
Categories:: Engineering and Physical Sciences, Research, Students

Description: Birmingham scientists are taking part in the first scientific collaboration of its kind, where British and American scientists are trading skills and expertise and are using an unmanned robotic aircraft to gather high altitude atmospheric data.
Date:: Friday 25th January 2013
Categories:: International, Life and Environmental Sciences, Research

Description: A model of the spread of gossip on Twitter prior to the Higgs boson discovery announcement has been developed by University of Birmingham computer scientists, according to research published on the online repository, ArXiv.
Date:: Wednesday 23rd January 2013
Categories:: Engineering and Physical Sciences, Research

Description: It's a familiar sight at the fairground: rows of people gaping at curvy mirrors as they watch their faces and bodies distort. But while mirrored surfaces may be fun to look at, new findings by researchers from the Universities of Birmingham, Cambridge and Giessen, suggest they pose a particular challenge for the human brain in processing images for 3D vision.
Date:: Monday 21st January 2013
Categories:: Life and Environmental Sciences, Research

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