Marion Petrie and her colleagues at the University of Newcastle and the University of Sheffield tackled this question by studying a couple of hundred of these flighty creatures strutting their stuff at an animal park at Whipsnade, near London.
But Neil Ward of Newcastle University thinks the charges of neglect are justified.
"The recent earthquakes in Manchester and Italy have highlighted our need to better understand the movement of the Earth's crust in England, " said Dr Matt King of Newcastle University's School of Civil Engineering and Geosciences.
Mr Patten, who is chancellor of both Oxford University and the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, said the party should not be arguing for a cap on fees.
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Dr Lyle Armstrong, of the International Centre For Life at the University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, called the studies a "major development".
Dr Bevan and the team of researchers from Newcastle University also fitted the tiny geolocator tags to the leg rings of eight puffins during 2009.
On Thursday a team of researchers at Newcastle University in the UK, which hopes to join South Korea in the forefront of stem cell research, also said they had successfully cloned an human embryo.
"This paper confirms that radiation, even in relatively low doses, does lead to risk" of certain cancers, said Alan Craft, emeritus chair at Newcastle University and an author of the paper.
Another series of laboratory-based experiments, carried out at Newcastle University, examined the behaviour of the bees.
Professor of Epidemiology of Ageing at Newcastle University Carol Jagger and Professor David Bell from Stirling University also gave evidence.
Second, says Paul Benneworth, a regional development researcher at Newcastle University, closures of local and foreign-owned factories have pushed redundant skilled managerial employees into their own ventures.
Dr Michael Mak, from the University of Newcastle in Australia, studies how feng shui can be used in urban design and architecture from what he calls a scientific stand point.
Dr Simi Ali, a lecturer in immunobiology at the University of Newcastle said that preventing this "antibody-mediated" rejection could be useful in these cases, in which the rejection is immediate and devastating.
The Newcastle pilot - run by Newcastle University and the city council - is part of a project involving six other European cities in France, Denmark, The Netherlands, Greece, Italy and Spain.
Trials involving 63 patients are under way at the Northern Institute of Cancer Research at Newcastle University.
Graham, who is based at Newcastle University's school of architecture, planning and landscape, also asked for 23 similar offences to be taken into consideration.
The use of technology in education in emergencies is also on the agenda with guest speaker Sugata Mitra, Professor of Educational Technology at Newcastle University (UK).
Others, like Michael North, Professor of Organic Chemistry at Newcastle University in the UK, are looking at transforming CO2 into useful chemical compounds called cyclic carbonates for industrial use.
Dr Andrew Fairbairn, senior tutor in charge of medical school admissions at Newcastle University, agreed improved communication skills would save the medical profession from being branded "arrogant".
Detectives said some of those taken ill were students at Newcastle University.
Mr Hamilton, of Offerton Close, Sunderland, a former technician at Newcastle University's Medical School, had retrained as a teacher and did supply work throughout the North East.
Newcastle University, for example, which draws around four-fifths of its students from outside the north-east, says that the proportion of its British graduates staying in the region has risen from 39% to 45% over the past four years.
Aston, Bath, Belfast Queens University, Birmingham, Bristol, Cambridge, Cardiff, Durham, Edinburgh, Exeter, Glasgow, Lancaster, Leeds, Liverpool, London Imperial College, London King's College, London School of Economics, London University College, Loughborough, Manchester, Newcastle, Nottingham, Oxford, Reading, Sheffield, Southampton, St Andrews, Strathclyde, Warwick and York.
Scientists at Newcastle University say the machine will "revolutionise" the diagnosis and treatment of cancer.
The Big Sea Survey was launched in 2010 by Newcastle University to record flora and fauna along a 150-mile stretch of coastline from St Abbs to Saltburn.
In 2006 researchers from the Hebrew University in Israel isolated a variant of the virus that causes Newcastle disease, a highly contagious disease in birds that can kill.
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Africa has seen a surge of adoptions in the past eight years, according to adoption expert Peter Selman from Newcastle University in Britain.
"There's a bit of a regulatory mess, " said Eric Sampson, a visiting professor in transport at Newcastle University.
The annual TED prize, handed out by organisers of the Technology, Entertainment and Design conference, has gone Dr Sugata Mitra, from Newcastle University.
The Newcastle University student, originally from Southport in Merseyside, was last seen in the Sandyford area of Newcastle at 02:45 BST on 16 May.
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