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1. UN Report Warns Borneo’s Orangutans Face Severe Threats from Land Cover and Climate Change

   Over 80 percent of the orangutan’s remaining habitat in Borneo could be lost by the year 2080 if the island’s current land-use policies remain intact.

2. Mapping Europe's energy system

   EU Horizon 2020 €3.4 million grant for Energy Transitions Research

3. Lifestyles of the dinosaurs

   Scientists downsize the Jurassic giant

4. Bringing the Universe down to Earth

   Astrophysicists engage public through RHS gold garden and £100k STEMM outreach project

5. Educational exchanges

   Unique UK and South African research partnership

6. Macaque communication signals studied

   Experts in primate behaviour develop online resource to improve welfare

7. Thoughtful design can help people with Dementia

   Professor Mary Marshall OBE, director for 16 years of the world expert’s in applied dementia research: the Dementia Services Development Centre at the University of Stirling, gave an architectural lecture which explained why certain designs in buildings can be distressing for people with dementia.

8. Reaching for the stars

   Sport scientists and astrophysicists prepare school children for demands of space travel

9. A potential new threat to bumblebees identified by researchers

   Parasitic worm sold to gardeners causes rapid death in bumble bees

10. How the brain controls our sense of touch

    MRC Funded grant to offer most detailed insight yet