The Universities of Exeter and Bristol, in partnership with Rothamsted Research have officially joined forces to tackle one of the biggest challenges facing humanity: how can we sustainably feed a growing population?
A grant of over €2 million has been awarded to Professor Nigel Smart in the University of Bristol’s Department of Computer Science for a new research project to show cryptographic protocols are secure.
A study by researchers from the University of Bristol’s Children of the 90s suggests by monitoring the rate of change and actual blood pressure during pregnancy, more women who are at risk of pre-eclampsia could be identified.
A study exploring patients’ views of pay-for-performance in primary care will be presented today [Friday 8 July] at the Annual Scientific Meeting of the Society for Academic Primary Care hosted by the University of Bristol's Academic Unit of Primary Health Care.
Researchers from the University of Bristol's School of Veterinary Sciences have concluded that the wellbeing of barn chickens is increased if they have activity objects, perches and other stimulation
Reorganisation of the brain and sense organs could be the key to the evolutionary success of vertebrates, one of the great puzzles in evolutionary biology, according to a paper by an international team of researchers, published today in Nature.
New research, led by psychologists at the University of Bristol, has found that children who are familiar with a snack food will expect it to be more filling. This finding, published (online ahead of print) in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, is important because it reveals one way in which children over-consume snack foods and increase their risk of becoming overweight.
A lavishly-illustrated book on the pre-Columbian goldwork of Panama has been published by Dr Nicholas Saunders, lecturer in the University of Bristol’s Department of Archaeology and Anthropology.
A pioneering project at Bristol University has been upheld as an example of research which will have a real impact on people’s lives in the future.
Women experiencing domestic violence want their GPs to raise the issue with them, a new study by researchers at the University of Bristol has found.
