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Scientists and engineers produce world's first carbon-14 diamond battery with potential lifespan of thousands of years
4 December 2024
Scientists and engineers from the University of Bristol and the UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) and have successfully created the world’s first carbon-14 diamond battery.
- Pioneering research exposes huge loss of glaciers in one of the fastest-warming places on Earth 16 January 2025 A new study has revealed the alarming extent glaciers have shrunk over the past 40 years in a global warming hotspot for the first time – and the biggest retreat has occurred in recent years.
- Robots should be repurposed rather than recycled to combat rising scale of e-waste, scientists warn 16 January 2025 The robotics industry should be creating robots that could be reprogrammed and repurposed for other tasks once its life span is completed, University of Bristol and University of West England researchers have advised.
- Honorary Industrial Professor Marvin Rees appointed to House of Lords 10 January 2025 University of Bristol Honorary Industrial Professor Marvin Rees has been selected to become a peer in the House of Lords in the New Year’s Honours List.
- “Brilliant” University professors scoop major palaeontology prizes 19 December 2024 Two University of Bristol professors have been presented awards by the Palaeontological Association for their contributions to academia, outreach and human knowledge.
- Coral reef nightlife becomes more predatory with artificial light 18 December 2024 Artificial light can wake sleeping fish and attract predators, changing nighttime coral reef communities, according to new research using novel underwater infrared cameras.
- Child asthma deaths linked to air pollution, new report finds 12 December 2024 Of the 54 children who died of asthma between 2019 and 2023, more than 90 per cent were exposed to air pollution levels above World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines, according to a new report published today [12 December] by the University of Bristol’s National Child Mortality Database (NCMD) team. The report uses the NCMD’s unique data on all child deaths in England to examine deaths due to asthma or anaphylaxis between April 2019 and March 2023.
- Pioneering research reveals growing dangers and repression of climate activism globally 11 December 2024 A new report has uncovered the many risks of participating in climate and environmental protests across the world – and how more countries are criminalising and repressing this activity in a bid to keep it in check.
- Bristol named 12th most sustainable university in the world 10 December 2024 The University of Bristol is the 12th most sustainable university in the world, according to the 2025 QS World Sustainability Rankings.
- Climate change impacting freshwater fish species, study finds 9 December 2024 Freshwater fish populations that dwell nearer the poles are outperforming their equatorial counterparts, researchers have found.
- Scientists and engineers produce world's first carbon-14 diamond battery with potential lifespan of thousands of years 4 December 2024 Scientists and engineers from the University of Bristol and the UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) and have successfully created the world’s first carbon-14 diamond battery.
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