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The View - Autumn / Winter 2007

Man in car

Battling the sleepy killer on
Britain's roads

It is something experienced by all motorists. That wave of tiredness which sweeps over you as you make the familiar journey home or travel to the early morning meeting you simply can’t miss. For some it is the last journey they make.

Tiredness kills and Loughborough University’s Sleep Research Centre is trying to reduce the hundreds of needless deaths that occur every year, simply because people ignore the signs and refuse to take a break. Read the full story...

Woman holding mobile phone

Constructing a revolution

Picture the scene – an army of robotic termites are released onto Mars to create a space station. Using the red planet’s own soil they will build a structure so complex that it will be able to sustain human life in one of the most inhospitable environments.

A work of science fiction? Not according to Dr Rupert Soar, a Rapid Manufacturing (RM) pioneer based in Loughborough University’s Wolfson School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering. Read the full story...

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