http://www.bris.ac.uk/news/ Latest news from the University of Bristol en-gb Thu, 09 Feb 2012 17:26:21 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss news-team@bristol.ac.uk news-team@bristol.ac.uk http://www.bris.ac.uk/university/web/terms-conditions.html 60 Search news archive by keyword news_text http://www.bris.ac.uk/news/news-results.html http://www.bristol.ac.uk/news/ http://www.bristol.ac.uk/images/rss.logo.gif http://www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2012/8223.html A study by a team at the University's School of Veterinary Sciences has shown that growing up on a farm directly affects the regulation of the immune system and causes a reduction in the immunological responses to food proteins. Wed, 08 Feb 2012 11:11:21 +0000 http://www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2012/8223.html Press releases http://www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2012/8209.html Dr Marieke Dubbelboer in the Department of French has recently published a book on Alfred Jarry’s experimental and satirical Almanachs du Père Ubu, works which to date have received little critical attention. Wed, 08 Feb 2012 10:50:00 +0000 http://www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2012/8209.html Other news http://www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2012/8220.html A new study by academics from the University of Bristol's School of Oral and Dental Sciences suggests stripping some mouth bacteria of their access key to gangs of other pathogenic oral bacteria could help prevent gum disease and tooth loss. Wed, 08 Feb 2012 00:05:00 +0000 http://www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2012/8220.html Press releases http://www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2012/8219.html Researchers from the University of Bristol and Max-Planck-Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems have presented a methodology that uses mathematics to exploit easily obtainable information to a greater effect and as a result can reduce the amount of additional data that needs to be collected. Tue, 07 Feb 2012 10:30:41 +0000 http://www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2012/8219.html Press releases http://www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2012/8210.html The love song of an extinct cricket that lived 165 million years ago has been brought back to life by scientists at the University of Bristol. The song was reconstructed from microscopic wing features on a fossil discovered in North East China. It allows us to listen to one of the sounds that would have been heard by dinosaurs and other creatures roaming Jurassic forests at night. Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:00:00 +0000 http://www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2012/8210.html Press releases http://www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2012/8211.html In a paper just published in Nature Chemistry, a team of University of Bristol scientists explores whether new models or concepts are needed to tackle one of the ‘grand challenges’ of chemical biology: understanding enzyme catalysis. Fri, 03 Feb 2012 12:10:45 +0000 http://www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2012/8211.html Other news http://www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2012/8208.html Scientists have for the first time measured how fast large-scale evolution can occur in mammals, showing it takes 24 million generations for a mouse-sized animal to evolve to the size of an elephant. Wed, 01 Feb 2012 16:31:12 +0000 http://www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2012/8208.html Press releases http://www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2012/8197.html A specialized camera that allows scientists to see as reef-dwelling animals do has been built by a team of researchers at the University of Bristol. The team will travel to Lizard Island off the coast of Queensland this year to capture images of the Great Barrier Reef which they hope will provide new insight into this underwater world. Fri, 27 Jan 2012 11:55:45 +0000 http://www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2012/8197.html Press releases http://www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2012/8195.html New research from the University of Bristol may disprove a long-standing conjecture made by one of the founders of quantum information science: that quantum states featuring ‘positive partial transpose’, a particular symmetry under time-reversal, can never lead to nonlocality. Fri, 27 Jan 2012 10:47:26 +0000 http://www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2012/8195.html Press releases http://www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2012/8192.html Teaching children with autism to 'talk things through in their head' may help them to solve complex day-to-day tasks, which could increase the chances of independent, flexible living later in life, according to new research from Durham University, the University of Bristol and City University London. Wed, 25 Jan 2012 15:54:01 +0000 http://www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2012/8192.html Press releases http://www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2012/8189.html A new web app that allows budding musicians to score their own songs to find out if they have hit potential has been launched by the University of Bristol’s Intelligent Systems Laboratory. Wed, 25 Jan 2012 14:50:25 +0000 http://www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2012/8189.html Press releases http://www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2012/8176.html Ticks infected with the bacteria that cause Lyme disease may be considerably more prevalent in the UK than expected, according to new research from the University of Bristol that used pet dogs as ‘sentinels’ for human disease risk. Wed, 25 Jan 2012 00:05:00 +0000 http://www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2012/8176.html Press releases http://www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2012/8183.html A new partnership, announced today by the Minister for Universities and Science, David Willetts, aims to establish the South West of England as a centre for international excellence in training for bioscience and food security research. The South West Doctoral Training Partnership (SWDTP), comprising the Universities of Bristol, Bath and Exeter, and Rothamsted Research, aims to equip future generations of scientists with skills they need to tackle the many challenges facing society today that have potential solutions in biological science. Tue, 24 Jan 2012 10:40:22 +0000 http://www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2012/8183.html Press releases http://www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2012/8179.html A University of Bristol team has dissolved iron in liquid surfactant to create a soap that can be controlled by magnets. The discovery could be used to create cleaning products that can be removed after application and used in the recovery of oil spills at sea Mon, 23 Jan 2012 22:00:00 +0000 http://www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2012/8179.html Press releases http://www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2012/8164.html Why different animals carry different amounts of fat depends on how they have solved the problem of avoiding both starving to death and being killed by predators, new research from the University of Bristol suggests. Fri, 20 Jan 2012 23:00:00 +0000 http://www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2012/8164.html Staff notices