Five innovative tech companies with founders from diverse ethnic backgrounds have been awarded SETsquared Bristol’s Breakthrough Bursary to join the acclaimed University of Bristol tech incubator.
Student Vivek’s campaign has collected 1,000 tonnes of trash.
Human-induced climate change is wreaking havoc in nature and affecting the lives of billions of people around the world, despite efforts to reduce the risks. People and ecosystems least able to cope are being hardest hit, according to leading scientists in the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report, released today.
Dr Amy Thomas, a Research Associate at Bristol Medical School, has been awarded an ‘Unsung COVID Heroes’ award from WISE, an organisation that promotes women in science, maths and engineering (STEM), for her work during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The family of Natasha Abrahart, a 2nd year Physics student who very sadly took her own life in April 2018, is bringing a civil action against the University of Bristol. This is due to start on Tuesday 1 March and run until 9 March.
A former University of Bristol student started the UK’s first fish leather business because she couldn’t find that perfect gift for her father’s 60th.
Drugs that repair damage to a gel-like layer in the tiny blood vessels of the heart could present a much-needed treatment for heart failure in people with diabetes, according to University of Bristol-led research funded by the British Heart Foundation and published today in Diabetologia.
Dr Mark Souter, lecturer in the School of Education, died on Boxing Day 2021 after a short illness. His colleague Professor Paul Howard-Jones offers a remembrance.
Researchers at the University of Bristol have launched a series of artworks to help households, community organisations and schools understand and discuss how we will generate and use energy in the future.
Villagers from a remote part of Mozambique have said that a borehole part-funded by generous Bristolians has “changed everything for our village”.
The risk of blood clots after COVID-19 vaccinations is very low finds a new study of 46-million adults in England. The research, which involved University of Bristol academics, showed that people vaccinated with Oxford-AstraZeneca or Pfizer-BioNTech had a lower risk of all venous clots (such as deep vein thrombosis and pulmonary embolism) and all arterial clots (such as strokes and heart attacks), particularly in people over 70 years.
Armies clash, civilisations creak and worlds are torn asunder.
Professor Rachael Gooberman-Hill has been appointed to co-chair the new UK Committee on Research Integrity (UK CORI) alongside Professor Andrew George MBE.
Scientists have found further evidence to support the idea that the primary two domains of life, the Archaea and Bacteria, are separated by a long phylogenetic tree branch and therefore distantly related. The findings are reported in a study published today in eLife.
Astronomers have made the first detailed measurements of an alien water cycle on a planet 855 light-years from Earth.
University of Bristol spin-out, FluoretiQ, has today announced the completion of a £1.1 million, pre-series A investment. Their pioneering NANOPLEX technology is a 15-minute proprietary diagnostic platform for bacterial infections.
Researchers from the Universities of Bristol and Hamburg have engineered bacteria with internal nutrient reserves that can be accessed when needed to survive extreme environmental conditions. The findings, published in ACS Synthetic Biology, pave the way for more robust biotechnologies based on engineered microbes.
Catered halls will detail the carbon footprint of every meal served, in a move that empowers students to make more informed decisions on what they eat.
A cohort of 13 women entrepreneurs showcased their innovative startups at a pitching event as a finale to SETsquared Bristol’s Enterprising Women 2.0 pre-incubation programme.
A new £300k research fellowship has been awarded to Dr Robert Drake at the University of Bristol to carry out research exploring how injury affects brain function to cause chronic pain. The award, which is part of a £1.2 million Medical Research Foundation grant, aims to improve pain diagnosis, treatment, and recovery, for the vast number of people who live with unrelenting pain.
Restricting the outdoor advertising of high fat, salt and sugar (HFSS) foods and drinks across the Transport for London (TfL) network is estimated to have significantly decreased the average amount of calories purchased by households every week from these products, according to new research in PLOS Medicine.
The Met Office has issued a red weather warning, relating to Storm Eunice, covering much of the Southwest including the Bristol area for tomorrow morning [Friday 18 February] from 7am-12noon.
Graduates from the University of Bristol are the third most sought after by top employers, a study has found.
‘We believe all students should take this course.'
Scientists analysing one of the largest genomic datasets of plants have discovered how the first plants on Earth evolved the mechanisms used to control water and ‘breathe’ on land hundreds of millions of years ago.
Inspired by the tsetse fly, scientists have developed a theory about how an individual’s age and experience affect investment in their offspring.
Bristol is now the UK hotbed of robot combat, with dozens of engineers and enthusiasts building vicious machines for bruising mechanical melees.
Unlike the classic Jules Verne science fiction novel Journey to the Center of the Earth or movie The Core, humans cannot venture into the Earth’s interior beyond a few kilometres of its surface. But thanks to latest advances in computer modelling, an international team of researchers led by the University of Bristol has shed new light on the properties and behaviour of magma found several hundreds of kilometres deep within the Earth.
People in the UK bereaved during the first nine months of the COVID-19 pandemic showed higher levels of grief and support needs if they were socially isolated or lonely.
New technology that could radically improve the outlook for patients with serious heart conditions has been developed by scientists at the Auckland Bioengineering Institute (ABI) and the Universities of Bristol and Bath together with Ceryx Medical Limited.
New research led by the University of Bristol has found the protein p53 plays a key role in epithelial migration and tissue repair. The findings could improve our understanding of the processes used by cells to repair tissues, and be used to identify interventions that could accelerate and improve wound repair.
No-one likes a prickly visitor, and yet the University of Bristol is winning awards for attracting whole hosts of them.
The team behind the UK’s first female urinal have raised £250,000 in their first funding round, as they strive to pioneer ‘pee-equality’ for women and make long queues for the ladies a thing of the past.
A pioneering technique used to better understand global sea level rise is going next level to help solve a wide range of issues, including the spread of diseases or viruses, pollution, traffic congestion, and even crime.
A former University of Bristol maths student has co-created an app that encourages sustainable investing.
High doses of a widely-used drug used in the hormonal treatment of conditions such as excessive hair growth, early puberty, prostate cancer are linked to an increased risk of meningioma — the most common type of benign brain tumour, finds a University of Bristol-led study of over 8 million patients. The study is published in Scientific Reports today [4 February].
Recommendations for what happens next to the Colston Statue have been published by the We Are Bristol History Commission, led by academics at the University of Bristol, taking into account the responses of nearly 14,000 people.
About 200 million years ago, much of Europe was transformed by a huge flood. What had been land, occupied by early dinosaurs and other reptiles, was covered by shallow seawater, from Poland in the east to Wales and south-west England in the west.
A new study has shown how SARS-CoV-2 may contribute to severe microvascular damage seen in severely-ill COVID-19 patients by transforming human heart vascular cells into inflammatory cells, without infecting them. The University of Bristol-led research, published in Clinical Science, indicates blocking antibodies could represent a new treatment to alleviate cardiovascular complications.
A new drive system for flapping wing autonomous robots has been developed by a University of Bristol team, using a new method of electromechanical zipping that does away with the need for conventional motors and gears.
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