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Description: Living close to an active landfill site reduces house prices by 2.6% and the cost to home owners can still be counted two decades after the facility has shut, new research shows.
Date:: 07/01/2013
Categories:: Life and Environmental Sciences, Research, Social Sciences

Description: Experts from the University set out their advice for how to stay healthy during the holiday period and how best to approach exercise and nutrition for a healthy 2013.
Date:: 19/12/2012
Categories:: Life and Environmental Sciences, Research

Description: Our Professor of Public Engagement in Science, Alice Roberts, fronts a new three-part series on BBC Two. Prehistoric Autopsy will use the latest scientific research to reconstruct our closest human ancestors, bringing us face to face with three of the most iconic members of our prehistoric family: A Neanderthal, a Homo Erectus and an Australopithecus Afarensis.
Date:: 19/10/2012
Categories:: Life and Environmental Sciences, Research

Description: The University of Birmingham's School of Biosciences announced today the launch of a £2 million (3 million US dollar) research initiative to build genomics and bioinformatics expertise for the emerging field of environmental genomics.
Date:: 31/07/2012
Categories:: Life and Environmental Sciences, Research

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: Sea Life Centre sharks are set to help scientists unravel the mysteries of ancient seas. That will be the goal of a major research project announced as the centres prepare to host special Shark Weeks in October, to promote shark conservation.
Date:: 20/10/2011
Categories:: Life and Environmental Sciences, Research

Description: Getting drunk at the office party and behaving in an inappropriate way may be down to the fact that drinking alcohol in an unfamiliar environment can lead to an inability to reign in unsuitable behaviour, according to research by psychologists at the University of Birmingham published online in the journal Alcohol and Alcoholism.
Date:: 21/09/2011
Categories:: Life and Environmental Sciences, Research

Description: Human movement scientists at the University are seeking to reduce the risk to older people of falling, by investigating the relationship between gaze direction and walking behaviour. Coinciding with Falls Awareness Week, this research is hoping to uncover how an individual's risk of falling is related to what they are looking at, and where, as they walk. The research is funded by Age UK, organisers of Falls Awareness Week, which this year is taking place between 20-24 June 2011, and is highlighting the link between poor vision and falling through the theme, 'Watch your step'.
Date:: 21/06/2011
Categories:: Life and Environmental Sciences, Research