Science Animated

In the age of the ‘Internet of Everything’ cybercrimes affect us all. The University of Kent’s Institute of Cyber Security for Society (iCSS) is releasing another cyber security awareness video, following the success of “How to be a cyber superhero” for children. The animated video educates the general public about cyber risks in the highly interconnected world. It was co-produced by iCSS researchers and SciAni.

The COSMIC Study aimed to examine how acceptable and practical the Compassionate Mindful Resilience (CMR) programme was for adult patients with chronic kidney disease. Researchers at the School of Nursing and Midwifery at Queen’s University Belfast worked with leading patient support charity Kidney Care UK and MindfulnessUK to carry out and test a four – session online mindfulness programme with 75 patients living with stage 4 and stage 5 kidney disease, and patients who have received a kidney transplant.

Machine learning is a modern statistical tool that is being increasingly used in psychiatric research to better understand certain clinical phenomena. This video discusses how machine learning is used to advance forensic psychiatric research – a field in which there is yet a lot to uncover. Machine learning could advance forensic psychiatry research by improving methods to understand the complex interplay between factors contributing to criminal behaviour.

Farmed salmon can contract a bacterial disease called tenacibaculosis. A team at Nofima, led by Dr Karlsen have been studying proteins encoded by the bacterium causing the disease as potential vaccine candidates. Dr Karlsens’ team found that fish exposed to the proteins had increased immunity.

Good pain management is important to help recovery after amputation surgery. The PLACEMENT trial is looking at the use of a perineural catheter (PNC) as a way of managing pain after leg amputation surgery. We want to know whether using a PNC will affect postoperative pain, the use of pain management medication, and longer-term phantom pain (pain felt in the foot that’s no longer there).

PUSH2HEAT is an EU-Funded project that aims at addressing the technical, economic, and regulatory barriers that prevent the widespread deployment of improved heat pump technologies. It will do so by scaling up four different technologies to optimise heat pump efficiency and economic performance. In addition, it will focus on integrating them into the relevant industrial sectors such as the paper and chemical industries.

Open online learning has the potential to increase accessibility, inclusivity, and equity in education. However, retention rates vary dramatically between learners from different social, regional, cultural and economic backgrounds. Current analytical models do little to address this disparity and may even be biased towards majority learning groups. This research seeks to understand the relationship between course designs and retention rates, and explore ways to make online learning more accessible and inclusive.

There’s more to gout than just the attacks. Understanding the difference between gout (the disease) and gout attacks is the first step to getting rid of both.

Research is transforming the future of cancer and saving lives. Thanks in large part to research, more than 60% of people diagnosed with cancer in Canada today are expected to survive 5 years or more compared to only 25% in the 1940s. The Canadian Cancer Society’s (CCS) research strategy is galvanizing a diverse community of people who care about cancer and cancer research to drive life-changing progress.

Serious and organised crime costs the UK around £37b every year. But who is charged with these crimes, and what happens to them in the criminal justice system? This research is one of the first studies to emerge from a ground-breaking data-linkage initiative, led by the Ministry of Justice, funded by ADR UK, and hosted by the Office for National Statistics.