Professor Sir Harry Kroto lead the workshop. he was one of the team that discovered the nanopartical. Buckyball is made up of carbon atoms and not only is it the same shape as a football but it is also the same structure. It has many properties including being used to strengthen material.
University of Sheffield have announced ground breaking research into the prevention of secondary breast cancer. The research in partnership with the University of Copenhagen has found that high levels of a particular enzyme is what leaves to secondary or metastatic breast cancer. The pioneering research, co-led by Dr Alison Gartland at the University of Sheffield’s Department of Human Metabolism, could lead to a better prognosis for cancer patients in the longer term.
A local company Floow has partnered up with the European Space Agency to carry out a year long research project in traffic pollution. The project announcement comes just weeks after the Government was ordered by the UK’s Supreme Court to take immediate action on air pollution.
A digital art festival which had participants from Norway, Iceland, Finland and France was held in Sheffield. The Do It Anyway Festival encourages people to use open source software to make digital art.
An exhibition that is encouraging young people to take up careers in Manufacturing, Engineering and Aviation took place at Magna. One of the projects based in East Yorkshire has people aged between 11 and 18 years old building a plane which they will then learn to fly.
Sheffield celebrated World Autism Awareness Day by wearing blue and holding events to highlight the work that is being done to support people with Autism.
The pupils of Bradfield School invited Sheffield Live! to join them while they watched the Solar Eclipse.
The Olympic Legacy Park which is being built on the old Don Valley Stadium site will be up and running in 18 months time says Richard Caborn former Minister of Sport and MP for Sheffield Central.
Over a hundred people took part in a singing flash mob at the Railway station today on their way to the Time to Act march in London. The march is taking place to call on Politicians to act on climate change.
Following the racism of football fans hitting the headlines we speak to Football Unites, Racism Divides a local charity about how to counteract racism in sport.