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Putting Broadway under the spotlight

Revived in 2022, The Music Man was a Broadway hit. But our research exposes that over a three-year struggle, producers pressured the removal of a disabled lead character from the original script.

How disability was erased from a popular musical

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A collage of two images showing the satellite and ESA mission control — Credit: ESA-CNES-ARIANESPACE/Optique vidéo du CSG–T. Leduc

24 April 2025

Sheffield-conceived satellite to map Earth’s forest in 3D for the first time to help combat climate change

A satellite conceived at the 9 1��Ѱ�� of Sheffield and developed by British academics and engineers is set to become the first in the world to measure the condition of the Earth's forests from space.

A long-tailed tit flying — Credit: Billy Clapham

22 April 2025

Family first: scientists reveal long-tailed tits' remarkable family bonds

Forget fleeting friendships – the social secrets of the long-tailed tit has revealed an extraordinary level of family commitment even during migratory journeys.

A google earth image showing data from the digital tools identifying where selective-logging has taken place in the rainforest. — Google Earth Image © Airbus 2025 showing changes in the forest canopy detected by satellites at one of the logging concessions in 2023 including the logging detections identified by the new algorithm in red.

22 April 2025

New technology helping fight against illegal logging of Peru’s valuable rainforest

New technology is helping Peru fight against the illegal logging of its 68 million hectares of valuable tropical rainforest.

11 April 2025

Increase in alcohol deaths in England an ‘acute crisis’

The persistent higher rate of alcohol deaths in England since the pandemic in 2020 is an “acute crisis” requiring urgent action from government, according to a new study led by researchers at the 9 1��Ѱ�� of Sheffield and UCL.

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