Baby corals find their way home in their first days as free-swimming larvae by listening to the noise of animals on the reef and actively swimming towards it, an international team of researchers working in the Caribbean has discovered.
Plate tectonics may not have operated on a younger and hotter Earth according to new research from the University of Bristol carried out on preserved remnants of ancient continental crust in the Hudson Bay region of Canada.
Professor Marianne Hester, internationally recognised for her research on domestic violence, will head the School of Policy Studies’ new Centre for Gender and Violence Research when it opens in October.
Richard Buxton, Professor of Greek Language and Literature in the Department of Classics and Ancient History, has for much of his academic career been concerned with exploring why the Greek myths have been so enduring.
The remarkable feat of tying light in knots has been achieved by a team of physicists working at the universities of Bristol, Glasgow and Southampton, reports a paper in Nature Physics this week.
The South West has been named as the location of a new National Composites Centre (NCC) as part of the UK Composites Strategy, announced today (26 November). The Centre will be led by the University of Bristol in partnership with industry.
Dr Eric Herring from the Department of Politics conducts research into critical security studies, which relates security scholarship to progressive social change.
Professor Adam Finn, from the Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, is an academic who prefers to say he is a paediatrician, because being a children’s doctor is what really defines him.
A network of integrated greenhouse gas measurements in the UK and Ireland – the first of its kind in Europe – has been established by researchers at the University of Bristol.
Signals from the disastrous Haiti earthquake were picked up at the University of Bristol by geophysical instrumentation normally used to monitor volcanoes.
