Bristol hosts top US students
Students from the United States are spending a month in Bristol as part of the second annual Fulbright Summer Institute.
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Bristol Nanomaterials Centre goes to China
Staff and PhD students from the Bristol Centre for Functional Nanomaterials have been visiting their counterparts in China.
Bristol announced as European Green Capital for 2015
Bristol is celebrating after it was revealed as the winner of a hotly contested international competition to be European Green Capital in 2015. The announcement was made tonight [14 June] at a ceremony in Nantes, France, the city which holds the current title.
Solitary lemurs avoid danger with a little help from the neighbours
An endangered species of Madagascan lemur uses the alarm calls of birds and other lemurs to warn it of the presence of predators, a new study by researchers from the University of Bristol and Bristol Zoo with the University of Torino has found. This is the first time this phenomenon has been observed in a solitary and nocturnal lemur species.
New research suggests economic stagnation is no excuse for climate inaction
Policymakers should be paying more, rather than less, attention to tackling climate change in economically tough times, a new study suggests. As economies have stagnated major emitters of CO2 seem unwilling to accept binding emissions reduction targets. But findings, published this week in Nature Climate Change, show the social cost of carbon dioxide is higher in a low economic growth world.
Top US students explore Bristol’s history
Top students from the United States are spending a month in Bristol as part of a unique summer programme looking at slavery, smuggling and trade across the Atlantic. It’s the first time the University of Bristol has hosted the prestigious Fulbright Commission’s Summer Institute, established to explore the culture, heritage and history of the UK.
Achilles’ heel of ice shelves is beneath the water, scientists reveal
New research has revealed that more ice leaves Antarctica by melting from the underside of submerged ice shelves than was previously thought, accounting for as much as 90 per cent of ice loss in some areas.
Functioning ‘mechanical gears’ seen in nature for the first time
Previously believed to be only man-made, a natural example of a functioning gear mechanism has been discovered in a common insect - showing that evolution developed interlocking cogs long before we did. The juvenile Issus - a plant-hopping insect found in gardens across Europe - has hind-leg joints with curved cog-like strips of opposing ‘teeth’ that intermesh, rotating like mechanical gears to synchronise the animal’s legs when it launches into a jump.
Learn what it’s like to work and study in India
A workshop for undergraduate students interested in taking part in this year's UK India Education Research Initiative (UKIERI) Study India Programme will be held in the Wills Memorial Building tomorrow Thursday 4 July.
A microbe’s trick for staying young
While aging remains an inevitable fact of life, an international team involving researchers from the University of Bristol and the Max-Planck Institute for Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics in Germany has found that this is not the case for a common species of yeast microbe which has evolved to stay young.