Why is Greenland covered in ice?
There have been many reports in the media about the effects of global warming on the Greenland ice-sheet, but there is still great uncertainty as to why there is an ice-sheet there at all.
Research
Dinosaur fact file
Four new publications about dinosaurs from the Department of Earth Sciences.
Phoenix about to land on Mars
Scientists from the University of Bristol and Imperial College London have provided hardware for NASA’s Phoenix Lander, due to land on Mars in the early hours of 26 May 2008.
Where are all the flowers from?
Amborella trichopoda, the world’s most ancient flowering plant, bloomed at the University’s Botanic Garden this autumn.
A breakthrough in glass
Imagine a plane that has wings made out of glass. Thanks to a major breakthrough in understanding the nature of glass by scientists at the University of Bristol, this has just become a possibility.
Insight into the lives of older Bristolians
The early results of a University of Bristol project examining the lives of older people in Bristol will be presented at the 37th conference of the British Society of Gerontology at the University of the West of England.
Alexander Technique has significant long-term benefit for low back pain
A major study – one of the first of its kind – has found significant evidence that the Alexander Technique can provide long-term benefit for people suffering from chronic or recurrent low back pain. The study by researchers at the Universities of Bristol and Southampton is published in the BMJ.
Looking into our bodies
The University of Bristol is already world-famous for its biomedical research, but following a £2.3 million investment in newly refurbished labs, it will be able to advance techniques that look in even greater detail at what’s going on in our bodies.
Molecular evolution is echoed in bat ears
Echolocation may have evolved more than once in bats, according to new research from the University of Bristol published this week in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).
An inflamed response
Paul Martin talked to Cherry Lewis about the discovery made in his lab that speeds up wound healing and reduces the size of the wound scar.