Latest Spotlights
UC Irvine expert on metacognition: Megan Peters
How do our brains take in complex information from the world around us to help us make decisions? And what happens when there’s a ...
CorpusCast with Dr Robbie Love: Dr Miloš Jakubíček on Sketch Engine
The latest episode of the Aston Originals podcast, CorpusCast with Dr Robbie Love, offers listeners a peek into the remarkable evolution of Sketch Engine, the ...
New research sheds light on how human vision perceives scale
Researchers from Aston University and the University of York have discovered new insights into how the human brain makes perceptual judgements of the external world. ...
Public lecture: My career in five equations, and the importance of mathematics education in the digital age
• Professor Stephen Garrett to discuss why the UK needs to up its game in maths education • He has a particular interest in the development of ...
Aston University establishes new independent investment company
Aston University is part of a group of eight universities which has established a new investment company Midlands Mindforge will accelerate the commercialisation of university ...
Aston University professor elected Fellow of Royal Microscopical Society
Professor Igor Meglinski is a physicist, scientist and biomedical engineer He pioneered the application of circularly polarised light for cancer detection His research is at ...
Aston University creates world first computational reconstruction of a virus in its biological entirety
First ever computer reconstruction of a virus, including its complete native genome Will open way for investigating biological processes which can’t currently be fully ...
Aston University forensic linguistics experts partner in $11.3 million funding for authorship attribution research
Aston Institute for Forensic Linguistics (AIFL) is part of the project to infer authorship of uncredited documents based on writing style AIFL’s Professor Tim ...
Cryptocurrency risks and rewards
Cryptocurrency might be the future of all global commerce, or a complete scam, depending on who you ask. That said, the cryptocurrency market reached $1.7 billion ...
State-sponsored computational propaganda is a potential threat during the 2022 Winter Olympics
Sagar Samtani, assistant professor and Grant Thornton Scholar, whose research centers on AI for cybersecurity and cyber threat intelligence, is particularly watching two major cybersecurity ...