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Preventing atrocities focus for new research team

A new group to promote efforts to prevent the abuse of power across the world has been launched at Aberystwyth University.

After the first world war, séances boomed – and dead soldiers ‘wrote’ home

Writing in The Conversation, Dr Alice Vernon explores how post first world war grief sparked a surge in séances — and how dead soldiers ‘wrote’ home.

New groundbreaking gene atlas could lead to healthier, climate-resistant oats

Leading plant scientists from across the world have joined forces to catalogue the diversity of oats and their wild relatives, sequencing the full chromosomal complement of 33 of the most common types and mapping more than nine thousand in unprecedented detail.

Reimagining Wales’ greatest poet’s work in new book

A new collection of short poems by an Aberystwyth academic offers a fresh take on the work of one of Wales’ highest regarded poets.