Major research news from Royal Holloway, University of London. Contensis: http://www.contentmanagement.co.uk http://www.rhul.ac.uk/research/news/home.aspx?SyndicationType=2 2013-05-19T18:22:25Z Lydia Daniels

Scientists from Royal Holloway have found that when white Caucasians are under the illusion that they have a dark skin, their racial bias changes in a positive way.

2013-05-17T09:38:00Z 2013-05-17T09:09:00Z http://www.rhul.ac.uk/research/news/newsarticles/studyfindsowningadarkerskincanpositivelyimpactracialbias.aspx Lydia Daniels

Royal Holloway today received a grant of £3.8 million from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) and the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills to host a new Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in cyber security.

2013-05-10T15:12:00Z 2013-05-10T15:03:00Z http://www.rhul.ac.uk/research/news/newsarticles/royalhollowayawardedmulti-millionpoundgrantforcybersecurityresearchtraining.aspx Lydia Daniels

From now until Saturday 13 July, scientists from the Department of Psychology at Royal Holloway will be offering the public a chance to take part in a live science experiment at the Science Museum in London.

2013-05-07T15:33:00Z 2013-05-07T13:09:00Z http://www.rhul.ac.uk/research/news/newsarticles/researchersgototheheartofthesciencemuseum.aspx Lydia Daniels

Royal Holloway has announced Professor Julian Johnson as Regius Professor in the Department of Music.

2013-04-25T09:57:00Z 2013-04-25T09:21:00Z http://www.rhul.ac.uk/research/news/newsarticles/julianjohnsonappointedasregiusprofessor.aspx Lydia Daniels

A project led by scientists from Royal Holloway in collaboration with Princeton University, has found evidence of how people form into tribe-like communities on social network sites such as Twitter.

2013-04-08T09:12:00Z 2013-03-15T10:36:00Z http://www.rhul.ac.uk/research/news/newsarticles/newresearchdiscoverstheemergenceoftwittertribes.aspx Lydia Daniels

Five early career researchers who have recently completed their doctorates at Royal Holloway are collaborating with cultural and charitable organisations in projects supported by the AHRC's Cultural Engagement Fund.

2013-03-08T14:22:00Z 2013-03-08T14:03:00Z http://www.rhul.ac.uk/research/news/newsarticles/fiveearlycareerresearcherswinahrcfunding.aspx Lydia Daniels

George Etheridge wrote his praise of Henry VIII for Queen Elizabeth I. A new electronic edition has been produced by a team of postgraduate students, scholars and technical advisors of Royal Holloway, University of London and the British Library.

2013-02-28T08:23:00Z 2013-02-28T08:44:00Z http://www.rhul.ac.uk/research/news/newsarticles/inpraiseofhenryviii.aspx Lydia Daniels

The protocol that provides security for online banking, credit card data and Facebook has major weaknesses, according to researchers at Royal Holloway

2013-02-14T16:43:00Z 2013-02-14T13:52:00Z http://www.rhul.ac.uk/research/news/newsarticles/securityprotocolforonlinebankingandfacebookhasseriousweaknesses.aspx Lydia Daniels

Comet explosions did not end the prehistoric human culture, known as Clovis, in North America 13,000 years ago, according to research published in the journal Geophysical Monograph Series.

2013-02-04T09:09:00Z 2013-02-04T08:52:00Z http://www.rhul.ac.uk/research/news/newsarticles/prehistorichumansnotwipedoutbycomet,sayresearchers.aspx Abbi Parris

In a report launched at the World Bank and United Nations, Royal Holloway's ICT4D Centre has been named as the only UK-based centre in a top ten led by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

2013-01-24T14:04:00Z 2013-01-25T09:50:00Z http://www.rhul.ac.uk/research/news/newsarticles/ict4dnamedtheonlyuktechnologycentreamongtheworldstopthinktanks.aspx Abbi Parris

Researchers at Royal Holloway have found that Brazilians and Chileans want the state to buy on social and environmental criteria, not just on price.

2013-01-24T14:04:00Z 2013-01-25T09:34:00Z http://www.rhul.ac.uk/research/news/newsarticles/southamericanswantpolicymakerstoputethicsaboveprice.aspx Abbi Parris

Royal Holloway is among a select group of universities to receive £21.5 million in government funding to explore commercial uses for graphene.

2013-01-17T10:44:00Z 2013-01-25T09:32:00Z http://www.rhul.ac.uk/research/news/newsarticles/governmentfundingforsuper-material.aspx Lydia Daniels

A study by researchers at Royal Holloway, University of London, University College London and Oxford University, has found that a genetic variant which reduces the chance of contracting diseases such as tuberculosis and leprosy is more prevalent in populations with long histories of urban living.

2013-01-05T22:00:00Z 2011-02-02T10:46:00Z http://www.rhul.ac.uk/research/news/newsarticles/city-livinghelpedusevolveimmunitytodisease.aspx Lydia Daniels

Researchers at Royal Holloway have been awarded a grant from the European Union, after identifying a tobacco tree that could produce biofuels

2012-12-04T09:49:00Z 2012-12-03T10:59:00Z http://www.rhul.ac.uk/research/news/newsarticles/scientistsdiscovertobaccotreethatcouldbeusedasbiofuel.aspx Lydia Daniels

Small mammal populations across Europe were wiped out multiple times during the last Ice Age, due to an inability to deal with rapid climate change, according the research published in the journal Proceedings of the Natural Academy of Sciences.

2012-11-28T11:23:00Z 2012-11-28T10:35:00Z http://www.rhul.ac.uk/research/news/newsarticles/researchshowslemmingswerewipedoutbyiceagesclimatechange.aspx Lydia Daniels

A team of scientists from several European countries and the USA, led by UCL scientist Prof Francesco Muntoni, Dubowitz Neuromuscular Centre, Institute of Child Health and including Professor George Dickson from Royal Holloway's School of Biological Sciences, have won an EU Health Innovation-1 2012 Collaborative research grant of €5.5 million to perform a clinical trial to test a novel drug treatment in Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) boys.

2012-11-28T09:42:00Z 2012-11-28T09:31:00Z http://www.rhul.ac.uk/research/news/newsarticles/aglobalscientificcollaboration,winseugrantawardtoperformclinicaltrialsinduchennemusculardystrophy.aspx Lydia Daniels

New drugs derived from components of a specific diet used by children with severe, drug-resistant epilepsy could offer a new treatment, according to research published today in the journal Neuropharmacology.

2012-11-26T14:45:00Z 2012-11-26T14:15:00Z http://www.rhul.ac.uk/research/news/newsarticles/discoveryoffersnewtreatmentforepilepsy.aspx Lydia Daniels

It has been announced that Royal Holloway will be among a select group of small and medium-sized businesses (SMEs) and other universities to receive the first substantial awards from the £180 million Biomedical Catalyst. Grants totaling £39 million have been awarded to accelerate the development of innovative solutions to healthcare challenges.

2012-11-05T16:39:00Z 2012-11-05T15:14:00Z http://www.rhul.ac.uk/research/news/newsarticles/governments39milliongranttoincludevaccineresearchatroyalholloway.aspx Lydia Daniels

Scientists at Royal Holloway, University of London have developed a pioneering new method of oral vaccination which could help boost immunity to TB and influenza, as well as prevent C. difficile for which there is currently no vaccine.

2012-10-30T09:19:00Z 2012-10-30T09:00:00Z http://www.rhul.ac.uk/research/news/newsarticles/nextgenerationvaccines–eliminatingtheuseofneedles.aspx Lydia Daniels

The behaviour of bees and the success of their colonies are significantly affected when exposed to a combination of pesticides, according to new research from the School of Biological Sciences at Royal Holloway, University of London published today in Nature.

2012-10-26T11:06:00Z 2012-10-24T14:21:00Z http://www.rhul.ac.uk/research/news/newsarticles/researchsuggestsexposuretomultiplepesticidesincreasesrisksforbumblebees.aspx Lydia Daniels

Dr Narender Ramnani, from the Department of Psychology at Royal Holloway, University of London has been awarded £350,000 to work with elite athletes, children and the elderly to understand skill learning and how skill memories are laid down in the brain.

2012-09-19T08:22:00Z 2012-09-18T10:49:00Z http://www.rhul.ac.uk/research/news/newsarticles/drnarenderramnanitostudyskilllearninganditsbrainmechanisms.aspx Lydia Daniels

Researchers from the Information Security Group (ISG) at Royal Holloway, University of London have been selected by intelligence agency GCHQ and EPSRC to use their expertise to form part of the UK's first academic Research Institute to investigate the "Science of Cyber Security."

2012-09-18T08:56:00Z 2012-09-13T15:13:00Z http://www.rhul.ac.uk/research/news/newsarticles/governmentselectsroyalhollowaytohelptackleukscyberthreat.aspx Lydia Daniels

Researchers from the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, including physicists from Royal Holloway, University of London, have confirmed that they have found a new particle consistent with the long-sought Higgs boson.

2012-08-03T14:19:00Z 2012-07-09T11:52:00Z http://www.rhul.ac.uk/research/news/newsarticles/royalhollowayphysicistsinthesuccessfulsearchfortheelusivehiggsparticle.aspx Lydia Daniels

In the first field study of its kind, researchers at Royal Holloway, University of London and the University of Oxford have investigated the competitive dynamics of pathogenic and non-pathogenic strains of bacteria.

2012-08-03T14:19:00Z 2012-07-09T12:20:00Z http://www.rhul.ac.uk/research/news/newsarticles/scientistsrevealhownaturalsystemslimitthespreadofcheatingbacteria.aspx Lydia Daniels

New research suggests the demise of the Bronze age Harappan Indus River civilisation is directly linked to changes in the monsoon

2012-07-03T14:45:00Z 2012-07-04T08:11:00Z http://www.rhul.ac.uk/research/news/newsarticles/climatechangeblamedfordemiseofoneofworldsfirstgreaturbancultures.aspx Lydia Daniels

The impact of the private collector and the relationship between artistic excellence and community engagement will be investigated through two AHRC funded PhDs.

2012-06-11T14:28:00Z 2012-06-11T11:31:00Z http://www.rhul.ac.uk/research/news/newsarticles/researchgranttofundcutting-edgebarbicancentreandvastudies.aspx Lydia Daniels

The simple art of folding a bed sheet could encourage the creativity of people living with advanced dementia, researchers have found.

2012-05-28T08:19:00Z 2012-05-25T11:26:00Z http://www.rhul.ac.uk/research/news/newsarticles/everydaytaskscanencouragecreativityinadvanceddementiapatients.aspx Lydia Daniels

A Media Arts researcher from Royal Holloway, University of London is drawing on his family history to produce a play about the 'secret listeners' who spied on the Nazis during the Second World War.

2012-05-21T13:37:00Z 2012-05-21T10:24:00Z http://www.rhul.ac.uk/research/news/newsarticles/playrevealssecretsofwhenthebritishbuggednazisinamiddlesexmansion.aspx Lydia Daniels

Researchers from the School of Biological Sciences at Royal Holloway, University of London, are working to further understand and treat Bipolar disorder while developing methods to reduce the number of animals used in research.

2012-04-23T12:13:00Z 2012-04-23T12:07:00Z http://www.rhul.ac.uk/research/news/newsarticles/royalhollowayleadsthewayinreplacinganimalstoresearchbipolardisorder.aspx Lydia Daniels

Before becoming extinct, a small number of woolly mammoths managed to survive for several thousands of years without suffering from inbreeding, according to new research by an international research team, including academics from Royal Holloway, University of London.

2012-03-28T17:29:00Z 2012-03-26T10:04:00Z http://www.rhul.ac.uk/research/news/newsarticles/inbreedingdidnotcausemammothextinction.aspx Lydia Daniels

Three pioneering projects at Royal Holloway, University of London have been given a cash boost thanks to the Gateway Fund which was set up by the College and Honorary Fellow Yazan Mufti.

2012-03-28T17:29:00Z 2012-03-26T10:40:00Z http://www.rhul.ac.uk/research/news/newsarticles/gatewayfundsupportsentrepreneurialprojects.aspx Lydia Daniels

In collaboration with the Universities of Utrecht and Maastricht, Royal Holloway, University of London is pleased to announce the launch of the Journal of European Television History and Culture in association with the EUscreen project and the European Television History Network (ETHN). The journal will be published by Utrecht University Library (Igitur Publishing) and will be continued with funding from the Dutch National Research Board.

2012-03-22T16:58:00Z 2012-03-22T10:26:00Z http://www.rhul.ac.uk/research/news/newsarticles/journalofeuropeantelevisionhistoryandculturelaunched.aspx Lydia Daniels

A researcher from Royal Holloway, University of London is launching a major study that could help to protect thousands of children who fall victim to forced marriage each year.

2012-03-22T16:58:00Z 2012-03-22T10:32:00Z http://www.rhul.ac.uk/research/news/newsarticles/researchertoinvestigatehowchildrencanbeprotectedagainstforcedmarriage.aspx Lydia Daniels

Dr Geoff Baker from the Department of Music at Royal Holloway, University of London will travel to Cuba in March 2012 for the second phase of a research project he's Co-investigator on. Led by Dr Lucy Durán (SOAS, University of London) 'Mali-Cuba: Music Across Generations' is a unique project that celebrates two great musical cultures and their deep historical and cultural connections, through the musicianship of young children.

2012-03-22T16:58:00Z 2012-03-22T10:53:00Z http://www.rhul.ac.uk/research/news/newsarticles/bringingtalentedyoungmusiciansfrommaliandcubatogether.aspx Lydia Daniels

Cultural differences between the East and West are well documented, but a study by researchers at Royal Holloway, University of London shows that differences also exist in how British and Chinese people recognise people and the world around them.

2012-02-29T15:26:00Z 2012-02-13T10:07:00Z http://www.rhul.ac.uk/research/news/newsarticles/eastviewstheworlddifferentlyfromthewest.aspx Lydia Daniels

Professor Vladimir Vapnik has been awarded the 2012 Benjamin Franklin medal in Computer and Cognitive Science from the Franklin Institute.

2012-02-06T14:09:00Z 2012-02-06T13:46:00Z http://www.rhul.ac.uk/research/news/newsarticles/professorreceivesbenjaminfranklinmedal.aspx Lydia Daniels

The Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) has awarded approximately £4.5million to Royal Holloway, University of London; Imperial College, London and Research Complex at Harwell to establish a joint Doctoral Training Partnership.

2012-01-27T16:06:00Z 2012-01-26T13:15:00Z http://www.rhul.ac.uk/research/news/newsarticles/royalhollowayandimperialreceive45milliontofund45phds.aspx Lydia Daniels

A treasure trove of fossils including some collected by Charles Darwin, has been rediscovered by a researcher from Royal Holloway, University of London.

2012-01-20T10:56:00Z 2012-01-20T10:27:00Z http://www.rhul.ac.uk/research/news/newsarticles/darwinslostfossilsfound.aspx Lydia Daniels

An exhibition looking at life in some of Surrey's Victorian and Edwardian residential institutions including a mental hospital, common houses for the poor and a public school will reveal some surprising similarities with life today.

2012-01-05T16:26:00Z 2012-01-05T14:33:00Z http://www.rhul.ac.uk/research/news/newsarticles/athomeintheinstitution.aspx Lydia Daniels

The acclaimed author and poet Jo Shapcott, Professor of Creating Writing at Royal Holloway, University of London, has been named the latest recipient of the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry.

2012-01-04T10:26:00Z 2012-01-04T10:13:00Z http://www.rhul.ac.uk/research/news/newsarticles/professorjoshapcottwinsqueensgoldmedalforpoetry.aspx Lydia Daniels

With people using computers as part of their everyday lives to communicate, buy goods or for banking, ensuring our details are protected from online thieves remains one of our biggest concerns.

2011-12-07T15:02:00Z 2011-12-05T13:31:00Z http://www.rhul.ac.uk/research/news/newsarticles/cryptographersbelievesizedoesmattertostaysafeonline.aspx Lydia Daniels

Bedford Square 5, an anthology of new writing from graduates of the MA Creative Writing at Royal Holloway, University of London has been published by Ward Wood Publishing.

2011-12-02T15:09:00Z 2011-12-02T13:19:00Z http://www.rhul.ac.uk/research/news/newsarticles/creativewritinggraduatespublishedinanthology.aspx Lydia Daniels

Researchers from Royal Holloway, University of London have been recruited into a network run by British intelligence agency, GCHQ, to combat new waves of security breaches and cyber crime.

2011-11-28T17:22:00Z 2011-11-28T13:24:00Z http://www.rhul.ac.uk/research/news/newsarticles/royalhollowaytohelpdefendcountryfromcyberattacks.aspx Lydia Daniels

Scientists at Royal Holloway, University of London have been awarded a one million pound European Research Council grant to support a new search for the mysterious and as yet unseen part of the universe, dark matter.

2011-11-24T15:12:00Z 2011-11-23T15:36:00Z http://www.rhul.ac.uk/research/news/newsarticles/questfordarkmattercomestoroyalholloway.aspx Lydia Daniels

Highly trained specialist paramedics who respond to serious 999 calls and treat patients with the help of virtual doctors could save lives without crippling NHS budgets, according to a study by Royal Holloway, University of London.

2011-11-14T13:54:00Z 2011-11-14T13:38:00Z http://www.rhul.ac.uk/research/news/newsarticles/specialistcriticalcareparamedicscouldsavelives.aspx Lydia Daniels

While medical researchers continue the search for advanced diagnosis, prevention and treatment of dementia, a researcher at Royal Holloway, University of London is focusing on improving the experiences of those already suffering with the devastating disease for whom any cure would be too late.

2011-11-11T10:03:00Z 2011-11-11T09:02:00Z http://www.rhul.ac.uk/research/news/newsarticles/forgottendementiasufferershelpedthroughart.aspx Lydia Daniels

Royal Holloway, University of London has signed an agreement with Benitec, an international biotechnology company focused on developing methods to treat serious diseases, to begin a new program to develop a novel therapy and potential cure for an untreatable, debilitating and potentially life threatening genetic muscle disease, oculopharyngeal muscular dystrophy (OPMD).

2011-11-02T12:30:00Z 2011-11-02T11:33:00Z http://www.rhul.ac.uk/research/news/newsarticles/royalhollowaytodeveloptreatmentforlife-threateninggeneticmuscledisease.aspx Lydia Daniels

Indigenous community representatives from the rainforests, savannas and wetlands of Brazil and Guyana travelled to Royal Holloway, University to attend the launch of the European Union funded COBRA project to address the key issues facing local communities and biodiversity conservation across the Guiana Shield Region of South America.

2011-11-02T10:37:00Z 2011-11-01T14:25:00Z http://www.rhul.ac.uk/research/news/newsarticles/projectlaunchtodeveloplocalsolutionsforfuturechallengesinsouthamerica.aspx Lydia Daniels

Television buffs, historians and even foreign language students could benefit from EUscreen, a new online portal that launches on Thursday 27th October, providing access to thousands of TV clips from across Europe.

2011-11-01T12:17:00Z 2011-10-27T12:18:00Z http://www.rhul.ac.uk/research/news/newsarticles/losttvarchivesfromacrosseuropearerevealedonline.aspx Lydia Daniels

How close could a stranger come to you before you start feeling uncomfortable? Usually, people start feeling uneasy when unfamiliar people come within an arm's reach. But take a tube journey during rush hour and you have no choice but to get up close and personal with complete strangers. Researchers at Royal Holloway, University of London wanted to find out whether there is a way to make this intrusion more tolerable. Their results, published in the journal PLoS One,| reveal that listening to music through headphones can change people's margins of personal space and make packed journeys more bearable.

2011-10-14T12:22:00Z 2011-10-13T15:03:00Z http://www.rhul.ac.uk/research/news/newsarticles/mp3playersshrinkourpersonalspace.aspx Lydia Daniels

Researchers have tapped into smartphone technology to carry out psychological experiments, allowing them access to millions of participants at the touch of a button.

2011-09-30T13:32:00Z 2011-09-30T11:31:00Z http://www.rhul.ac.uk/research/news/newsarticles/iphonesrevolutionisescientificresearch.aspx Lydia Daniels

Fragile treasures of 16th Century music are now freely available online, thanks to a partnership between Royal Holloway, University of London, the British Library and JISC.

2011-09-30T13:32:00Z 2011-09-30T11:35:00Z http://www.rhul.ac.uk/research/news/newsarticles/ancientmusicbooksaccessibletoall.aspx Lydia Daniels

A researcher at Royal Holloway, University of London has been awarded £225,000 for a three year project that could help prevent future conflicts in India and Pakistan.

2011-09-30T11:47:00Z 2011-09-20T09:02:00Z http://www.rhul.ac.uk/research/news/newsarticles/couldhistoryholdthekeytoavoidingconflictinindiaandpakistan.aspx Lydia Daniels

Wildfires are often viewed as major disasters, and there is concern that climate change will increase their incidence. However, it is difficult to consider the true impact of past or future wildfires without understanding their place in natural and human history.

2011-09-14T16:12:00Z 2011-09-14T15:22:00Z http://www.rhul.ac.uk/research/news/newsarticles/ourfuturewillbeshapedbyfire.aspx Lydia Daniels

Scientists from a consortium of UK research institutes, including Royal Holloway, University of London and the Natural History Museum (NHM), are asking the public to help record sightings of the Chinese mitten crab to better understand the full extent of their invasion and the threat these crustaceans pose to our rivers and waterways.

2011-09-14T09:18:00Z 2011-09-14T08:36:00Z http://www.rhul.ac.uk/research/news/newsarticles/scientistschartchinesemittencrabinvasion.aspx Lydia Daniels

Researchers at Royal Holloway, University of London have developed a new biochemical approach to identifying epilepsy treatments which not only offer stronger seizure protection but could also provide safer treatment for pregnant women.

2011-09-14T08:31:00Z 2011-08-31T11:48:00Z http://www.rhul.ac.uk/research/news/newsarticles/novelepilepsytreatmentcouldreduceriskofbirthdefects.aspx Lydia Daniels

a researcher at Royal Holloway, University London is looking into how Japanese art is influencing mainstream British theatre.

2011-08-17T11:48:00Z 2011-08-17T11:27:00Z http://www.rhul.ac.uk/research/news/newsarticles/howisjapanhelpingtoshapebritishtheatre.aspx Lydia Daniels

Researchers at the Centre for Particle Physics at Royal Holloway, University of London have just deployed the 'Rutherford' cluster, a vast new data store and lightening-fast computers, to analyse information from the world's biggest scientific experiment.

2011-08-11T15:59:00Z 2011-08-11T12:53:00Z http://www.rhul.ac.uk/research/news/newsarticles/newsupercomputerhelpsroyalhollowayphysicistsanalysekeylhcdata.aspx Lydia Daniels

Professor George Dickson, from the Department of Biological Sciences at Royal Holloway, University of London and a team lead by scientists at the UCL Institute of Child Health (ICH), have made an important breakthrough in the development of a treatment for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD).

2011-07-28T15:42:00Z 2011-07-29T10:55:00Z http://www.rhul.ac.uk/research/news/newsarticles/firsttargetedtreatmentsuccessforduchennemusculardystrophy.aspx Lydia Daniels

A team of researchers at Royal Holloway, University of London are working with charity SpecialEffect to use innovative technology to design a computer programme to allow those with disabilities to be able to explore their creativity

2011-07-19T12:47:00Z 2011-07-19T10:57:00Z http://www.rhul.ac.uk/research/news/newsarticles/newtechnologyallowsdisabledchildrentoexploretheircreativeside.aspx Lydia Daniels

Academics at Royal Holloway, University of London are working with the police to improve the video identification procedures for obtaining eyewitness evidence from witnesses in the hope of bringing more criminals to justice.

2011-06-29T13:20:00Z 2011-06-29T12:45:00Z http://www.rhul.ac.uk/research/news/newsarticles/researchershelpshapethefutureofpolicing.aspx Lydia Daniels

Renaissance specialists at Royal Holloway, University of London launched a £780,000 research project in collaboration with Reading University and The British Library at an official signing ceremony.

2011-06-27T10:35:00Z 2011-06-27T10:17:00Z http://www.rhul.ac.uk/research/news/newsarticles/signingmarkssecondphaseofitalianacademiesproject.aspx Lydia Daniels

Royal Holloway, University of London has announced new funding to help academics investigate the commercial opportunities of their research

2011-06-24T13:10:00Z 2011-06-24T11:10:00Z http://www.rhul.ac.uk/research/news/newsarticles/honoraryfellowinvests125,000innewfund.aspx Lydia Daniels

More than 13 million film, television and radio records are now available thanks to a pioneering new search engine developed by Royal Holloway, University of London and the British Universities Film & Video Council (BUFVC).

2011-06-22T10:32:00Z 2011-06-22T10:29:00Z http://www.rhul.ac.uk/research/news/newsarticles/millionsofarchivedfilmsandtvfootagenowaccessibletoall.aspx Lydia Daniels

Scientists at Royal Holloway, University of London and the University of Leicester have discovered animals searching for food do not stick to a complicated pattern of movement as previously thought but tend to wander about randomly.

2011-05-13T09:11:00Z 2011-05-13T08:56:00Z http://www.rhul.ac.uk/research/news/newsarticles/varietyisthespiceoflifeforanimalmovement.aspx Lydia Daniels

Scientists at Royal Holloway, University of London, have identified that plants use a mechanism similar to a grandfather clock to activate a gene that regulates when they flower.

2011-04-18T10:46:00Z 2011-04-18T09:55:00Z http://www.rhul.ac.uk/research/news/newsarticles/grandfathertimekeepsplantstickingover.aspx Lydia Daniels

The development of a new oral vaccine may help boost immunity to tuberculosis according to new research.

2011-02-24T11:09:00Z 2011-02-24T09:51:00Z http://www.rhul.ac.uk/research/news/newsarticles/oralvaccinecouldprovidekeytotbimmunity.aspx Lydia Daniels

A paper published in this week's issue of PLoS Medicine provides the most detailed assessment so far of civilian deaths in the course of the recent Iraq war.

2011-02-16T14:21:00Z 2011-02-16T11:10:00Z http://www.rhul.ac.uk/research/news/newsarticles/researchanalysesviolentdeathsofiraqicivilians.aspx Lydia Daniels

New research by scientists at Royal Holloway, University of London provides evidence that the cerebellum, a part of the brain used to store memories for skilled movements, could also store memories important for mental skills – such as the rules used to interpret traffic light signals.

2011-02-11T11:57:00Z 2011-02-11T10:00:00Z http://www.rhul.ac.uk/research/news/newsarticles/scientistsuseneuroimagingtoshowhowthebrainlearnsmentalskills.aspx Lydia Daniels

Surprising new research shows that, contrary to conventional belief, remains of chitin-protein complex - structural materials containing protein and polysaccharide -are present in abundance in fossils of arthropods from the Palaeozoic era.

2011-02-11T11:53:00Z 2011-02-11T10:04:00Z http://www.rhul.ac.uk/research/news/newsarticles/powerfulmicroscoperevealschemicalstructureoffossils.aspx Lydia Daniels

Royal Holloway, University of London has joined an international team of researchers to develop a new way of conducting psychological and social research.

2011-02-11T11:53:00Z 2011-02-11T09:56:00Z http://www.rhul.ac.uk/research/news/newsarticles/royalhollowayusesinnovativeiphoneapptocarryoutscientificresearch.aspx Lydia Daniels

Royal Holloway, University of London has made a commitment to offer more than 120 scholarships and awards, worth a total of £2million, to support postgraduate students over the next three years.

2011-02-01T16:44:00Z 2011-02-02T10:53:00Z http://www.rhul.ac.uk/research/news/newsarticles/scholarships.aspx Lydia Daniels

An international team of scientists – including Dr Simon Armitage from Royal Holloway, University of London – have rejected the existing view that modern humans left Africa around 70,000 years ago. Their discovery of ancient artefacts reveal that humans left Africa at least 50,000 years earlier than previously suggested and were, in fact, present in eastern Arabia as early as 125,000 years ago.

2011-01-28T12:28:00Z 2011-02-02T10:50:00Z http://www.rhul.ac.uk/research/news/newsarticles/modernhumansleftafricamuchearlierthanthought,newartefactsreveal.aspx Lydia Daniels

Award-winning author Jo Shapcott, Professor of Creating Writing at Royal Holloway, University of London, was last night named the winner of the Costa Book of the Year Award for her latest book of poems Of Mutability.

2011-01-26T13:53:00Z 2011-02-02T10:52:00Z http://www.rhul.ac.uk/research/news/newsarticles/professorjoshapcottwinscostabookoftheyearaward.aspx Lydia Daniels

Professor Scott Elias, from the Department of Geography at Royal Holloway, University of London, will join a team of international scientists to analyse insect fossils from a recently discovered site in Colorado that has produced hundreds of animal bones of mammoths, mastodons and other Ice Age creatures.

2011-01-25T10:41:00Z 2011-02-02T10:52:00Z http://www.rhul.ac.uk/research/news/newsarticles/researcherunearthsmysterybehindiceagefossilsinonceinalife-timediscovery.aspx Lydia Daniels

Award-winning author Jo Shapcott|, Professor of Creating Writing at Royal Holloway, University of London, has won the Costa Poetry Award for her latest book of poems, Of Mutability.

2011-01-13T10:16:00Z 2011-02-02T10:52:00Z http://www.rhul.ac.uk/research/news/newsarticles/professorpickedforprestigiouspoetryaward.aspx Lydia Daniels

Ecologists from Royal Holloway, University of London and the University of York have developed a series of new methods to monitor stag beetle numbers – including ginger lures to trap adult beetles and tiny microphones to detect sounds made by the larvae in their underground nests. Conservation efforts have been hampered until now because ecologists lacked a reliable way of monitoring stag beetle numbers.

2011-01-11T10:02:00Z 2011-02-02T10:48:00Z http://www.rhul.ac.uk/research/news/newsarticles/gingeriskeyingredientinrecipeforconservingstagbeetles.aspx Lydia Daniels

A new study, led by Dr Manos Tsakiris from Royal Holloway, University of London, suggests that the way we experience the internal state of our body may also influence how we perceive our body from the outside, as for example in the mirror

2011-01-05T13:22:00Z 2011-02-02T10:51:00Z http://www.rhul.ac.uk/research/news/newsarticles/perceptionofourheartbeatinfluencesourbodyimage.aspx Lydia Daniels

Scientists at Royal Holloway, University of London have reported encouraging results in a new gene-based therapy for Duchenne Muscular dystrophy (DMD) which at present has no known cure and affects one in 3,000 young boys.

2010-12-23T14:01:00Z 2011-02-02T10:54:00Z http://www.rhul.ac.uk/research/news/newsarticles/scientistsclosertofindingtreatmentforlife-threateninghereditarydisease.aspx Lydia Daniels

Between 600 and 700 million years ago, our planet froze solid in an event dubbed Snowball Earth. How life survived this deep freeze has puzzled scientists for over a decade. Now geologist, Dr Dan Le Heron of Royal Holloway, University of London may have found the answer.

2010-12-16T09:10:00Z 2011-02-02T10:49:00Z http://www.rhul.ac.uk/research/news/newsarticles/ice-freeoasesfoundonsnowballearth.aspx Lydia Daniels

Researchers from the School of Biological Sciences at Royal Holloway, University of London have revealed that by using innovative technology to block the activity of myostatin – a protein that prevents muscles from growing bigger and stronger – it may be possible to build up muscle size and strength in people with muscle disease.

2010-12-15T10:06:00Z 2011-02-02T10:54:00Z http://www.rhul.ac.uk/research/news/newsarticles/scientistsrevealinnovativenewtreatmentformusclewastingillnesses.aspx Lydia Daniels

Global warming devastated tropical rainforests, 300 million years ago. Now scientists, from Royal Holloway, University of London and the University of Bristol, report the unexpected discovery that this event triggered an evolutionary burst amongst reptiles – and inadvertently paved the way for the rise of dinosaurs, a hundred million years later.

2010-12-06T11:07:00Z 2011-02-02T10:48:00Z http://www.rhul.ac.uk/research/news/newsarticles/globalwarmingtriggeredthearrivalofthedinosaurs.aspx Lydia Daniels

Scientists from Royal Holloway, University of London, in collaboration with the University of Southampton and the Institute of Zoology at the Zoological Society of London (ZSL), have been researching the social butterfly effect - studying how we change our friends throughout our lives.

2010-12-06T11:05:00Z 2011-02-02T10:55:00Z http://www.rhul.ac.uk/research/news/newsarticles/thesocialbutterflyeffectsharedinterestsarethekeytofriendships.aspx Lydia Daniels

Scientists from Royal Holloway, University of London and the Institut de Ciencies del Mar (Spanish Research Council) have revealed a new model that explains how continents thin as well as helping to more accurately predict the location of hydrocarbons such as oil and gas.

2010-12-01T12:22:00Z 2011-02-02T10:54:00Z http://www.rhul.ac.uk/research/news/newsarticles/scientistsdevisenewmodeloncontinentalthinningwhichhelpslocateoilandgasresources.aspx Lydia Daniels

A study by researchers at Royal Holloway, University of London reveals that primary school children cannot accurately judge the speed of vehicles travelling faster than 20 mph.

2010-12-01T12:22:00Z 2011-02-02T10:45:00Z http://www.rhul.ac.uk/research/news/newsarticles/childroadriskstudy.aspx Lydia Daniels

Scientists at Royal Holloway, University of London and Queen Mary, University of London have discovered that bees learn to fly the shortest possible route between flowers even if they discover the flowers in a different order. Bees are effectively solving the 'Travelling Salesman Problem', and these are the first animals found to do this.

2010-10-27T16:50:00Z 2011-02-02T10:56:00Z http://www.rhul.ac.uk/research/news/newsarticles/tinybrainedbeessolveacomplexmathematicalproblem.aspx Lydia Daniels

Lungs are lined with a mixture of molecules to ensure that they function well. Some of these help with the removal of inhaled particles, while the retention of a moist film at the surface is also crucial. Scientists – including Dr Martin King from Royal Holloway, University of London – have now shown how some of these molecules are affected by ozone, which can arise as a pollutant in the atmosphere and is known to be a severe pulmonary irritant.

2010-10-08T12:15:00Z 2011-02-02T10:51:00Z http://www.rhul.ac.uk/research/news/newsarticles/ozonedamagetoourlungs.aspx Lydia Daniels

Four members of academic staff at Royal Holloway, University of London have been awarded The Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Fellowship awards, with just under £300,000 being invested into their research.

2010-10-05T10:29:00Z 2011-02-02T10:47:00Z http://www.rhul.ac.uk/research/news/newsarticles/fellowshipawardsinthefacultyofarts.aspx Tony Greenwood

The high incidence of fire during the Cretaceous Period, 120 to 65 million years ago, was responsible for the spread of the earliest flowering plants scientists from Royal Holloway, University of London and the University of Cape Town claim.

2010-09-09T14:46:00Z 2010-09-09T17:08:00Z http://www.rhul.ac.uk/research/news/newsarticles/firefuelsflowerssuccess.aspx Lydia Daniels

A team of scientists – including Professor Andrew C Scott from Royal Holloway, University of London – have cast resounding doubt upon the last crucial piece of evidence supporting the Younger Dryas impact hypothesis.

2010-09-01T11:11:00Z 2011-02-02T10:49:00Z http://www.rhul.ac.uk/research/news/newsarticles/impacthypothesislosesitssparkle.aspx Lydia Daniels

Royal Holloway, University of London has been awarded a Bronze Athena SWAN Charter, which recognises excellence in, and commitment to, the career progression of women in science, engineering and technology (SET) within Higher Education. The award will be presented at the Royal Society, London, on 16 September 2010.

2010-08-09T10:17:00Z 2011-02-02T10:53:00Z http://www.rhul.ac.uk/research/news/newsarticles/royalhollowayawardedforcommitmenttoadvancingwomeninscience.aspx Lydia Daniels

Dr Julie Brown from the Department of Music at Royal Holloway, University of London has discovered previously hidden musical scores for silent films in various attics and archives. Prior to her discoveries, only one surviving full score was known about. Julie has since been awarded a £145,000 British Academy grant to explore the musical film fitting techniques used in the UK for the screening of early pictures.

2010-08-04T00:00:00Z 2011-02-02T10:55:00Z http://www.rhul.ac.uk/research/news/newsarticles/silentfilmscores.aspx Lydia Daniels

Variations in the Earth's atmospheric oxygen levels are thought to be closely linked to the evolution of life, with strong feedbacks between uni- and multicellular life and oxygen. Over the past 400 million years, the level of oxygen has varied considerably from the 21% value we have today. Scientists from Royal Holloway, University of London and The Field Museum in Chicago, publishing their results this week in the journal 'Nature Geoscience', have revealed that the amount of charcoal preserved in ancient peat bogs, now coal, gives a measure of how much oxygen there was in the past.

2010-08-02T00:00:00Z 2011-02-02T10:51:00Z http://www.rhul.ac.uk/research/news/newsarticles/oxygenfuelsfiresoftime.aspx Lydia Daniels

318-million-year-old reptile footprints were found in sea-cliffs on the Bay of Fundy, New Brunswick, Canada. They show that reptiles were the first vertebrates (animals with a backbone) to conquer dry continental interiors. These pioneers paved the way for the diverse ecosystems that exist on land today.

2010-07-30T00:00:00Z 2011-02-02T10:46:00Z http://www.rhul.ac.uk/research/news/newsarticles/discoveryoffossilisedfootprintsrevealswhenreptilesfirstconquereddryland.aspx Tony Greenwood

The Banda arc – a gigantic 1,000km long, 180-degree curve in eastern Indonesia – has puzzled geologists for many years, with much debate and controversy surrounding its complex origin and evolution. A solution to this enigma, resolving many of the previous problems, has finally been found by scientists at Royal Holloway, University of London and Utrecht University, and is published in 'Nature Geoscience' this week.

2010-07-26T00:00:00Z 2011-02-02T10:13:00Z http://www.rhul.ac.uk/research/news/newsarticles/bandaarc.aspx Lydia Daniels

Academics awarded up to £3million to explore the causes and consequences of threats to insect pollinators and to ask questions about the decline of bees.

2010-07-22T00:00:00Z 2011-02-02T10:37:00Z http://www.rhul.ac.uk/research/news/newsarticles/beesindecline.aspx Lydia Daniels

A scientist at Royal Holloway, University of London believes dark matter is lurking at the centre of the sun and cooling down its core temperature.

2010-07-21T00:00:00Z 2011-02-02T10:55:00Z http://www.rhul.ac.uk/research/news/newsarticles/sundarksecret.aspx Lydia Daniels

The way that fig wasps pollinate fig trees has remained unchanged for at least 34 million years scientists have revealed.

2010-07-18T00:00:00Z 2011-02-02T10:47:00Z http://www.rhul.ac.uk/research/news/newsarticles/figwasps.aspx Lydia Daniels

Real-life courtroom drama will provide a window into the past in a new BBC Radio 4 series being presented by Professor Amanda Vickery, from the Department of History at Royal Holloway, University of London.

2010-07-12T00:00:00Z 2011-02-02T10:49:00Z http://www.rhul.ac.uk/research/news/newsarticles/historiandelvesintolifeofcrimeinnewbbcradio4series.aspx Tony Greenwood

Analogue, an award-winning company specialising in live performance led by Royal Holloway, University of London alumni Hannah Barker and Liam Jarvis, has been awarded a £10,000 commission after a successful pitch in a nationwide competition.

2010-07-05T00:00:00Z 2011-02-02T10:11:00Z http://www.rhul.ac.uk/research/news/newsarticles/alumnitheatrecompany.aspx Lydia Daniels

A team of scientists – led by Professor Andrew C Scott of the Department of Earth Sciences at Royal Holloway, University of London – have revealed that neither comet nor catastrophe were the cause for abrupt climate change some 12,900 years ago.

2010-06-17T00:00:00Z 2011-02-02T10:46:00Z http://www.rhul.ac.uk/research/news/newsarticles/cometcauseforclimatechangetheorydealtblowbyfungus.aspx Lydia Daniels

A research group led by Professor Jane Everson – from the School of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures at Royal Holloway, University of London – has recently been awarded £780,690 by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) for a four-year continuation of the major research project 'The Italian Academies 1525-1700: the first intellectual networks of early modern Europe'.

2010-06-10T00:00:00Z 2011-02-02T10:50:00Z http://www.rhul.ac.uk/research/news/newsarticles/majorboostforsuccessfulitalianacademiesproject.aspx Lydia Daniels

Dr Keith Mayes, Director of the Smart Card Centre, at Royal Holloway, University of London, has been awarded £50,000 by the PARK commercialisation fund to lead the development of an RFID/smartcard attack detector product prototype, with Dr Gerhard Hancke as the lead developer.

2010-06-03T00:00:00Z 2011-02-02T10:50:00Z http://www.rhul.ac.uk/research/news/newsarticles/isgsmartcardcentreattractsindustryfunding.aspx