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A group of students play the life size boardgame, one is holding a card and reading aloud, whilst everyone stands on the board in their own space.

Bridging the ‘digital divide’ with board games

Helping young people who have moved to University navigate online and digital spaces necessary for their education, and overcome the pitfalls they may encounter, is the subject of a new board game from the University of Sheffield.
Mediterranean diet

Mediterranean diet beats standard advice for IBS patients

A Mediterranean diet is significantly more effective than traditional dietary advice for managing IBS symptoms, new research from the University of Sheffield has found.
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AI could learn from data beyond vision and language to make it more practical, trustworthy and improve its understanding.

New ‘blueprint’ for advancing practical, trustworthy AI

A new ‘blueprint’ for building AI that highlights how the technology can learn from different kinds of data to make it more deployable in the real world, has been developed by researchers at the University of Sheffield and the Alan Turing Institute.
Professor Jim Wild with colleagues in front of an MRI scanner

Transformative lung imaging research recognised by international award

Professor Jim Wild, from the University of Sheffield, has been awarded the 2025 Institute of Physics (IOP) Peter Mansfield Prize for his distinguished contributions to lung imaging with hyperpolarised gas MRI
An example of growing media used for growing crops in controlled environments.

New environmentally-friendly growing materials to be developed for food production

New environmentally-friendly growing media made from waste materials will be developed by researchers at the University of Sheffield’s Institute for Sustainable Food, for use when growing crops in controlled environments.
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New campaign highlights success of famous graduate who was first in his family to attend university

The extraordinary success of a high-profile graduate from the University of Sheffield, who was the first in his family to attend university, is being highlighted in a new national campaign, led by Universities UK (UUK).
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£10.9 billion of new spending opportunities from England going completely smoke-free

Making England completely smoke-free could free up £10.9 billion and provide substantial benefits to local economies, a new study has shown.

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Replacing plastics with alternatives is worse for greenhouse gas emissions in most cases, study finds

Substituting plastics with alternative materials is likely to result in increased GHG emissions, according to research from the University of Sheffield.
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Pint of Science festival is brewing ahead of Sheffield return

The world’s largest festival of public science is set to return to Sheffield next month (Monday 13 May - Wednesday 15 May), with scientists from the University of Sheffield taking to the city’s pubs and venues to share their scientific discoveries.