Year: 2017

Chris Packham Wildlife Photography Competition

Chris Packham Wildlife Photography Competition The challenge Get your cameras or smartphones ready! From our urban architecture, allotments, parks and commons, out into the woodlands, fields, riverbanks and beaches, there’s an abundance of wildlife out there. It could be a fox, a falcon, a beetle or a badger – we want to see your best photographs…Continue Reading Chris Packham Wildlife Photography Competition

Great Lives: Judy Friedberg | 22nd Nov

Journalist Judy Friedberg is a freelance media consultant and journalist who worked on both foreign and home news before specialising in Higher Education as Universities Editor at the Guardian newspaper responsible for the University Guide and Guardian Students and overseeing the Higher Education editorial. Event Details: Wednesday 22 November 2017 | 5.30pm for 6pm lecture…Continue Reading Great Lives: Judy Friedberg | 22nd Nov

Tiny poisonous Brazilian frogs are ‘deaf’ to their own call

Tiny Brazilian frogs still ‘sing’ despite not being able to hear themselves – this is the surprising discovery of new scientific research. The new study, published in the journal Scientific Reports from the publishers of Nature, reveals that two species of pumpkin toadlets found on the leaf litter of Brazil’s Atlantic forest are insensitive to the sound of…Continue Reading Tiny poisonous Brazilian frogs are ‘deaf’ to their own call