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2021 news from the University of Edinburgh.

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Musical time machine recreates lost performance

31 March, 20212021

Virtual reality and ground-breaking acoustic techniques are being used to recreate historical music…

Royal Society honours Edinburgh academics

30 March, 20212021

The Royal Society of Edinburgh has made 19 University of Edinburgh academics fellows of the…

Infants’ language more advanced than first words

30 March, 20212021

Babies can recognise combinations of words even before they have uttered their first word, a study…

Key study gauges Covid’s impact on young lives

26 March, 20212021

Covid-19’s impact on children and young people with intellectual disabilities is to be assessed in…

Exhibit honours ladies who launched bold plan

26 March, 20212021

It was a daring philanthropic endeavour conceived in the so-called Athens of the North … but, just…

Commonwealth scholarships for distance learners

25 March, 20212021

Forty postgraduate scholarships will be available in five online Master’s degree programmes…

Additional quotes

24 March, 20212021

Quotes from stakeholders in PHOSP COVID and ISARIC studies

Studies reveal burden of long Covid

24 March, 20212021

The majority of people hospitalised by Covid-19 have not fully recovered months after discharge,…

Worse than death scores rise during pandemic

23 March, 20212021

Almost twice as many orthopaedic patients awaiting surgery have a quality of life ranked ‘worse…

Mental illness linked to worse heart attack outcomes

22 March, 20212021

People with a severe mental illness are more likely to die following a heart attack than those…