Skills Minister opens ‘unique’ university micro-campus
A new university micro-campus, designed to make higher education accessible to all, has been officially opened in South Bristol by Baroness Jacqui Smith, the Minister of State for Skills.
A new university micro-campus, designed to make higher education accessible to all, has been officially opened in South Bristol by Baroness Jacqui Smith, the Minister of State for Skills.
A new fossil from Devon reveals what the oldest members of the lizard group looked like, and there are some surprises, according to a research team from the University of Bristol. The study is published today [10 September] in Nature.
Five University of Bristol early-career researchers have been awarded prestigious European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grants totalling €10 million to pursue their pioneering research.
More child deaths occur in winter months compared with the rest of the year, new findings by the University of Bristol-led National Child Mortality Database (NCMD) have shown. The findings are published today [10 September]. NCMD records all child deaths in England before their 18th birthday.
University of Bristol astrophysicists are helping shed new light on an Earth-sized exoplanet 40 light years away where liquid water in the form of a global ocean or icy expanse might exist on its surface.
The modern coelacanth is a famous ‘living fossil’, long thought to have died out, but first fished out of deep waters in the Indian Ocean in 1938. Since then, dozens of examples have been found, but their fossil history is patchy. In a new study, Jacob Quinn and colleagues from the University of Bristol and University of Uruguay in Montevideo have identified coelacanths in museum collections that had been missed for 150 years.
A pioneering study that used climate models to measure the impact of global atmospheric patterns has found new evidence for North America’s hidden role in Asia’s summer monsoon, a seasonal rainfall system vital to more than a billion people.
Graduates from the University of Bristol continue to be the most sought after by leading organisations according to the latest study of the UK job market, once again proving the stature of their education and commitment.
A new university micro-campus, designed to make higher education accessible to all, has been officially opened in South Bristol by Baroness Jacqui Smith, the Minister of State for Skills.
From the enticements of luxury items for nuns and priests in 16th century Italy, to the historic role of masculinity in Australia’s betting culture, the arts and humanities have more to teach us about gambling harms us than just the statistics and data of other disciplines.
A simple brainwave test has been shown to detect signs of memory impairment linked to Alzheimer’s disease years before clinical diagnosis is typically possible.