How any hen can have beautiful plumage all year round
Scientists at the University of Bristol together with the RSPCA and Soil Association have put together a new guide to help make sure laying hens are well-feathered throughout their lives.
Research
Gap between rich and poor wider than 40 years ago
The independent National Equality Panel, of which the University's Professor Tariq Modood is a member, today publishes a report entitled An Anatomy of Economic Inequality in the UK that calls for policy interventions at each life-cycle stage to counter economic inequalities.
Last Neanderthals died out 37,000 years ago
The last Neanderthals in Europe died out at least 37,000 years ago – and both climate change and interaction with modern humans could be involved in their demise, according to new research from the University of Bristol published today in PLoS ONE.
£875,000 to investigate protein that could hold the key to reversing the effects of heart failure
A pioneering study that aims to investigate if a key protein, which is thought to be responsible for regulating the structure and function of the cells that cause contraction of the heart, can be manipulated to inhibit or reverse the effects of aging and heart failure will begin shortly thanks to funding of £875,000 from the British Heart Foundation (BHF).
New method for treating stress
A new analysis of the way the body responds to stress suggests that administering constant high levels of drugs is not the best way to treat this condition. A better way might be to design drugs that follow the body’s own naturally-occurring rhythms.
Call to stop the trauma of transition
Two complementary studies launched today [27 January] call for more action to bridge the damaging primary-secondary divide.
New evidence of dinosaurs’ role in the evolution of bird flight
A new study looking at the structure of feathers in bird-like dinosaurs has shed light on one of nature’s most remarkable inventions – how flight might have evolved. Academics at the Universities of Bristol, Yale and Calgary have shown that prehistoric birds had a much more primitive version of the wings we see today, with rigid layers of feathers acting as simple airfoils for gliding.
Hearing on the wing: New structure discovered in butterfly ears
A clever structure in the ear of a tropical butterfly that potentially makes it able to distinguish between high and low pitch sounds has been discovered by scientists from the University of Bristol.
Solving big problems
In a recently published paper, Aram Harrow at the University of Bristol and colleagues from MIT in the United States have discovered a quantum algorithm that solves large problems much faster than conventional computers can.
Pickin’ up good vibrations to produce green electricity
Vibrations from the environments we live and work in could be much more widely harnessed as a clean source of electricity, due to cutting-edge research being carried out at the University.