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<title><![CDATA[Creating citizenship communities: helping young people take their place in society]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[A major new study suggests a range of potential improvements in the way schools pursue citizenship education.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 10:32:00 BST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[National evaluation of the Realising Opportunities programme]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[A team at the University of York’s Institute for Effective Education (IEE) has been commissioned to carry out the national evaluation of the Realising Opportunities (RO) Programme. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 10:41:00 BST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Scientists uncover the fundamental property of astatine, the rarest atom on Earth]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[An international team of scientists, including a University of York researcher, has carried out ground-breaking experiments to investigate the atomic structure of astatine (Z=85), the rarest naturally occurring element on Earth.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 10:03:00 BST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Scientists demonstrate pear-shaped atomic nuclei]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[An international team of physicists, including scientists from the University of York, has shown that some atomic nuclei can assume asymmetric 'pear' shapes.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 11:08:00 BST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Study reveals pressure ulcer research uncertainties]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[A new study involving researchers at the University of York has revealed substantial areas of doubt and uncertainty about the prevention and treatment of pressure ulcers.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 11:27:00 BST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Chaos proves superior to order]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[An international team of physicists, including researchers from the Universities of York and St. Andrews, has demonstrated that chaos can beat order - at least as far as light storage is concerned.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2013 10:29:00 BST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[More than a game: exploring new digital frontiers]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[A groundbreaking new initiative led by the University of York, with partners at Cass Business School, part of City University London and Durham University Business School, aims to unlock the potential for scientific and social benefits in digital games.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2013 11:47:00 BST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[York joins the world’s largest nuclear physics research facility]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Researchers at the University of York will have access to the most impressive and advanced nuclear physics research facility in the world as the United Kingdom today becomes part of a €1.6 billion international project that will be to nuclear physics what CERN is to particle physics.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2013 09:18:00 BST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[New research shows inequalities in progression to postgraduate study in the UK]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[In a study commissioned by the Higher Education Academy (HEA), researchers from the University of York have highlighted potentially worrying inequalities in transition to postgraduate degrees.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2013 10:28:00 BST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Study reveals alcohol industry tactics to influence alcohol policy reform in Scotland]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The alcohol industry – including some supermarkets, drinks companies, and trade associations – distorted international evidence on effective alcohol control measures in an attempt to influence the Scottish Government’s public health policy to its advantage, according to a study published in the journal <em>PLOS Medicine</em>.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2013 09:45:00 BST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Social networking: Is the igeneration a 'we' generation?]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Social networking sites may increase the bonds of friendship for nine to 13-year-old boys, according to researchers from the University of York.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 20 Dec 2012 10:10:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[York researchers investigate whether disabled people can afford to keep their homes warm]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Researchers at the University of York are looking at the combined effect of changes to welfare benefits and rising energy prices on people with disabilities.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 06 Dec 2012 14:02:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Researchers investigate impacts of climate change on rare tropical plants]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Research led by the University of York has found that the impacts of climate change on rare plants in tropical mountains will vary considerably from site to site and from species to species.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 06 Dec 2012 13:45:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[York’s key role in European ‘green’ chemistry research project]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Scientists in the Department of Chemistry at the University of York are to play a key role in a major new research project which aims to develop sustainable manufacturing routes to pharmaceuticals.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 05 Dec 2012 10:43:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Research shows young people to bear brunt of rising homelessness]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[More people are becoming homeless in England as the impacts of cuts to housing benefit start to bite against the backdrop of the continuing economic downturn – with young people and families with children first in the firing line, new research has revealed. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 05 Dec 2012 09:45:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Living the dream in rural France – why do people choose to migrate?]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[A University of York researcher claims the idea of 'the rural idyll' is far too simplistic an explanation for why British people choose to migrate to rural France.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 04 Dec 2012 11:10:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Grand and not so grand designs: Why do people choose to build their own homes? ]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[A University of York researcher is investigating self-building to discover what kind of people decide to build their own home and why.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 27 Nov 2012 16:57:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Praise for project to encourage tuberculosis patients to quit smoking]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The BUPA Foundation has awarded a high commendation prize for research led by the University of York into effective ways of helping tuberculosis patients in Pakistan to give up smoking.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 22 Nov 2012 11:05:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA['Trust' provides answer to handaxe enigma ]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Trust rather than lust is at the heart of the attention to detail and finely made form of handaxes from around 1.7 million years ago, according to a University of York researcher.]]></description>
<link>http://www.york.ac.uk/news-and-events/news/2012/research/handaxe/</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 21 Nov 2012 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Unlocking ancient rice secrets to overcome rainfall extremes]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Researchers from the UK, USA and India, led by scientists at the University of York, are embarking on a major four-year project which aims to develop new strains of rice to help to feed millions of people.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 20 Nov 2012 10:50:00 GMT</pubDate>
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