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Why visiting a restaurant feels better when it’s raining
16 June 2026People enjoy restaurant visits more when it’s raining, according to new international research.
ntu.ac.uk/about-us/news/news-articles/2026/06/why-visiting-a-restaurant-feels-better-when-its-raining
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Football injuries explained: causes, trends, and how science is helping prevent them
15 June 2026Why do footballers get injured? Professor Ian Varley explains the most common football injuries, injury trends, ACL risk and how clubs use science to protect players.
ntu.ac.uk/about-us/news/news-articles/2026/06/football-injuries-explained
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Ancient infections still shape modern health, despite being hidden from the headlines
12 June 2026Many people in the UK assume ancient diseases are a thing of the past, but outbreaks like TB continue to pose serious threats worldwide. Associate Professor Conor Meehan, Lecturer in Epidemiology, explains how pathogens spread and how genomic research at NTU can help track outbreaks and detect drug resistance.
ntu.ac.uk/about-us/news/news-articles/2026/04/think-infectious-diseases-are-a-thing-of-the-past-think-again
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About 7% of the entire population of the world’s rarest great ape are estimated to have been killed by landslides in a storm that was worsened by climate change, a new study has found.
ntu.ac.uk/about-us/news/news-articles/2026/06/climate-change-fuelled-landslides-push-rarest-great-ape-closer-to-extinction
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Expert blog: Why national curriculum debates feel so personal – and why the document itself can’t carry everything we ask of it
10 June 2026Associate Professor Alison Hardy explores why debates around the national curriculum feel so personal for the education community.
ntu.ac.uk/about-us/news/news-articles/2026/06/why-national-curriculum-debates-feel-so-personal
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The ghosts of the Mediterranean: What a rare great white shark sighting could reveal about a changing ocean
9 June 2026Divers have filmed a rare interaction with a great white shark in the Mediterranean Sea. Dr Nicholas Ray, an expert in great white shark population dynamics in Nottingham Trent University's School of Animal, Rural and Environmental Sciences, discusses the significance of the sighting and what it might mean for the species' continued conservation.
ntu.ac.uk/about-us/news/news-articles/2026/06/the-ghosts-of-the-mediterranean-what-a-rare-great-white-shark-sighting-could-reveal-about-a-changing-ocean
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Dr Colin Alexander of the School of Social Sciences writes an explainer of what propaganda is.
ntu.ac.uk/about-us/news/news-articles/2026/05/propaganda-explained-what-it-is,-how-it-began,-and-what-you-need-to-know
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Nottingham Trent University, working in collaboration with industry partners, has been named winner of an international award which aims to recognise innovative, sustainable solutions in the animal feed sector.
ntu.ac.uk/about-us/news/news-articles/2026/06/ntu-named-sustainability-impact-award-winner-for-innovative-animal-feed-work
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Blog: Workshop at Nottingham Trent University: Intercultural exchange and creative inspiration
3 June 2026Workshop at Nottingham Trent University: Intercultural exchange and inspiration, a blog by Dr Vanessa Angenendt.
ntu.ac.uk/about-us/news/news-articles/2026/06/blog-workshop-at-nottingham-trent-university-intercultural-exchange-and-creative-inspiration
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The public are being asked to give their views on a selection of wildlife, native to the UK, that will appear on the next series of banknotes in a consultation launched today.
ntu.ac.uk/about-us/news/news-articles/2026/06/public-asked-to-help-select-uk-wildlife-to-appear-on-new-banknote-series