This Easter, motorists will experience the familiar frustration of being stuck on a motorway in a ‘phantom’ traffic jam that eventually disperses with no road works to blame, or any other apparent cause. Research at the University of Bristol has investigated this problem and found that although most changes in vehicle speed and road position get absorbed by traffic flow, they sometimes combine in a ‘perfect storm’ to create these phantom jams.
Doctors should warn men that prostate cancer testing may lead to anxiety and distress, say Cancer Research UK experts, following a study conducted from the University of Bristol into how men cope with the prospect of having a biopsy after discovering they have a high Prostate Specific Antigen level.
A collaboration between researchers at the University of Bristol, England, and the University of Toronto, Canada, has led to the discovery of a new self-assembly method for controlling the dimensions of nano-cylinders.
A large international team of researchers, including scientists from several UK and international centres (and including a group from the University of Bristol), has discovered two gene regions that affect a baby’s size at birth.
The University has launched a new Infection and Immunity (I&I) research theme website.
Scientists investigating the geophysical and hydrological conditions beneath the Greenland ice sheet say their analysis will be vital for helping understand how the ice sheet will respond to climate change.
Professor Varinder Aggarwal in the School of Chemistry has discovered a new technique that could hasten the development of new drugs for today’s incurable diseases
The lure of urban habitats for bees, flies, beetles and butterflies is to be investigated by researchers hoping to find a solution to the declining numbers of insect pollinators, without which, the UK could face severe agricultural setbacks.
An academic from the University of Bristol will present a paper in Paris this week[Friday 28 May], which makes a step towards a fully practical system to compute on encrypted data. The work could have wide ranging impact on areas as diverse as database access, electronic auctions and electronic voting.
A paper by Dr Richard Lee, NIHR Clinical Lecturer in Ophthalmology, has won an award recognising it as one of the three most significant contributions of the year to clinical research into uveitis, an autoimmune disease that causes blindness.
