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Description: Britain's energy policies are in increasing danger of being paralysed by a growing "sense of drift", the chairman of an influential commission has warned. Lord Hunt of Kings Heath said the UK might risk being unable to deal with "formidable challenges" if it fails to decide upon a clear direction in the near future.
Date:: 23/03/2012
Categories:: Research

Description: It is becoming ever more important to understand how the brain works, in health and in disease. Top scientists and students from across the University of Birmingham are organising a series of events to engage public understanding of neuroscience - Brain Awareness Week.
Date:: 13/03/2012
Categories:: Arts and Law, Medical and Dental Sciences, Research, Teaching

Description: University of Birmingham scientists are using parkour athletes - also known as free runners - to discover how orang-utans and other tree-dwelling primates maximise energy efficiency as they move through the forest canopy.
Date:: 27/02/2012
Categories:: Life and Environmental Sciences, Research

Description: University reproductive medicine expert Dr Jackson Kirkman-Brown invites a group of male students to take part in an experimental 'Sperm Race' to explore what it takes to be the best out of millions in the BBC3 documentary How Sex Works tonight.
Date:: 23/01/2012
Categories:: Medical and Dental Sciences, Research

Description: Almost 70 years after the end of the Second World War a groundbreaking forensic archaeological study by the University has unearthed evidence of hidden burial sites at a former death camp where more than 800,000 Jews perished during the Holocaust.
Date:: 18/01/2012
Categories:: Arts and Law, Research

Description: Professor Martin Russell explores developments in voice recognition technology
Date:: 17/01/2012
Categories:: Engineering and Physical Sciences, Research

Description: Research from the University of Birmingham has highlighted striking similarities between today's Saturday night television talent shows and another great Christmas tradition, the Victorian pantomime. The appeal of pantomime in providing spectacle, melodramatic villains and a guaranteed happy ending for a Victorian audience is paralleled today in Strictly Come Dancing and the X Factor.
Date:: 20/12/2011
Categories:: Arts and Law, Research

Description: Dora, a domestic robot devised and built by a group of European computer scientists led by the University of Birmingham, featured at the London Science Museum's Robotville exhibition from the 1st – 4th December 2011.
Date:: 19/12/2011
Categories:: Engineering and Physical Sciences, Research

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