This summer’s heatwave has us all wondering how to stay cool, but animals are facing the same issues as humans with fewer means of coping. Professor Tom Oliver is Professor…Read More >
Tag: environment
No major flood since 1947 doesn’t mean Caversham is safe from flooding
The Environment Agency is consulting on a new flood alleviation scheme for Reading, to be sited on the banks of the River Thames in Caversham, and they’re inviting local residents to look at…Read More >
India-UK Workshop on Thermoelectric Materials for Waste-Heat Harvesting
Bangalore, India, 8-10 January 2018 About the Workshop The Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR, India) and the University of Reading (UK) are jointly organising an India –…Read More >
Safeguarding the world’s pollinators: International experts converge on Reading to inform UN policy
Thirty international experts met at the University of Reading recently, to help the United Nations develop better policies and practices to safeguard the world’s pollinators. The meeting of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy…Read More >
Self-assembly Inside Atmospheric Droplets?
By Christian Pfrang, Department of Chemistry, University of Reading Our new study found surprisingly complex arrangements of molecules inside droplets mimicking atmospheric aerosols. These types of aerosols are typical…Read More >