Bursting the bubble
Known as the ‘silent killer’, high blood pressure – or hypertension – is one of the world’s biggest killers, affecting one in three of us.
Research
Reassessing Russia
How representations of sport and physical culture revealed some of the Soviet state's major anxieties.
Improving Education Quality
Assisting the fight against poverty and gender inequality
Capturing Time
How precisely can we tell geological time?
Sunshade World – a global warming solution?
Recent research at the University of Bristol indicates that contrary to popular conception, 'Sunshade' geoengineering would not re-establish a ‘natural’ pre-industrial climate.
Grey Walter and his tortoises
From the first autonomous robots to stem cells for treating multiple sclerosis.
Elitist European set-up cuts citizens out of debate
The elitist nature of European politics leads to a damaging inability of those in power to communicate with the public, while media representations only serve to reinforce the distance between Europe’s citizens and the governing elites, according to a new book by a University of Bristol political sociologist.
Archaeologists explore Peruvian mystery
Indiana Jones may be flying over the Nazca Lines in Peru in his latest Hollywood adventure, but two British archaeologists have been investigating the enigmatic desert drawings for several years.
Mechanisms of memory identified
By blocking certain mechanisms that control the way that nerve cells in the brain communicate, scientists from the University of Bristol have been able to prevent visual recognition memory in rats.
The Ideers Project
Since 2000, Adam Crewe and Wendy Daniell from the Earthquake Engineering Research Centre have been running an international competition for students to design models of earthquake-resistant buildings.