Anthropologist Jessica Galea has received a prestigious Fulbright Commission Postgraduate Scholarship Award to carry out research at Bristol into the health status of medieval archaeological populations.
A violation of one of the oldest empirical laws of physics has been observed by scientists at the University of Bristol. Their experiments on purple bronze, a metal with unique one-dimensional electronic properties, indicate that it breaks the Wiedemann-Franz Law. This historic discovery is described in a paper published today in Nature Communications.
Advice organisations, rather than professional lawyers, are becoming key players in legal arenas, particularly for citizens whose access to rights is most limited. A grant of over one million euros has been awarded to Dr Morag McDermont at the University of Bristol by the European Research Council (ERC) to investigate the ways in which UK advice agencies mediate between citizens and the practices of law.
New research examines the relationship children have with electronic viewing devices, such as TV, computer game time and internet use, and their habits of interacting with more than one at a time.
The University of Bristol is hosting the Seventeenth Biennial Colloquium of the Rousseau Association at Clifton Hill House this week (21-23 July), on the theme of ‘Rousseau’s republics’.
A new, artificial protein structure has been made by a team of University of Bristol chemists, biochemists and mathematicians, a paper in Nature Chemical Biology reports this week.
The president of one of the United States’ top universities has travelled to Bristol to collect an honorary degree today [19 July] in recognition of his contribution to education throughout the world.
£300,000 has been awarded to the Universities of Bristol and Cambridge, along with a further £1.5million to the University of Wisconsin-Madison, for a joint research project to investigate why the HIV virus only emerged in the 1970s despite entering the human population many decades earlier.
Professor Martin Lowson in the Department of Aerospace Engineering has been presented with the prestigious American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Aeroacoustics Award.
Research into eight-month-old babies salt intake was covered by The Guardian, The Independent and The Daily Telegraph and a number of health websites.
