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Afternoon napping improves runners endurance performance paper achieves 4th place in EJSS Best Paper Awards
Researchers in the School of Sport, Health and Exercise Sciences at Bangor University have provided the first experimental evidence to show that napping may benefit the performance of endurance athletes.
Publication date: 11 June 2019
Rapid change in coral reefs prompts global calls for a rethink
Coral reef experts from around the world are calling for an urgent re-evaluation of our climate goals in the light of increasing evidence of unprecedented speed of change to these fragile ecosystems.
Coral reefs, which have functioned relatively unchanged for some 24 million years, are now going through profound changes in their make-up.
Publication date: 6 June 2019
Third of people in Wales use digital technology to self-diagnose – new report
More than a third of people in Wales (34 per cent) use digital technology to self-diagnose health conditions, whilst only 14 per cent make a healthcare appointment online.
These insights are from a novel survey exploring how people in Wales use digital technology to support and monitor their health, by Public Health Wales and Bangor University.
Publication date: 30 May 2019
British Science Association | May News Letter
Publication date: 29 May 2019
New innovation receives Meterological Society Award
The Royal Meteorological Society’s Vaisala Award for Weather Observing and Instrumentation for 2018 has been awarded to Professor Tom Rippeth and his research team at Bangor University’s School of Ocean Sciences.
Prof Rippeth is interested in how different water masses mix within our oceans and how the mixing of waters of different temperatures and salinity drives and affects global climate and weather patterns.
Publication date: 24 May 2019
New research at Bangor University helps shed light on the possibility of past life on Venus
Whilst today Venus is a very inhospitable place, with surface temperatures hot enough to melt lead, geological evidence, supported by computer model simulations, indicate it may have been much cooler billions of years ago and had an ocean, and so have been very similar to Earth.
Publication date: 22 May 2019
Mobile app helping chemotherapy patients stay safe during treatment at Ysbyty Gwynedd
Doctors at Ysbyty Gwynedd are testing a smart phone app as part of a clinical trial to help patients stay as safe as possible during their chemotherapy treatment.
Patients who have been invited to take part in the ‘Keep Me Safe’ trial are using the app to help them take the right steps if any complications occur during their treatment.
Publication date: 20 May 2019