An international team of researchers have discovered that a mysterious microscopic creature from which humans were thought to descend is part of a different family tree.
University of Bristol students are helping members of the public to celebrate Chinese New Year this weekend [28 to 29 Jan] when they take part in a range of performances at Bristol’s flagship museums to help mark the Year of the Dragon.
A unique collection of photographs, comparing modern-day Shanghai with a snapshot of the city portrayed in a guidebook from 1904, is being exhibited as part of the Chinese New Year celebrations in Bristol this weekend. The special pop-up exhibition, entitled ‘Darwent revisited: Shanghai then and now’, is being shown at Bristol Museum on Saturday [9 February] and at M Shed on Sunday. It promises to be a visual feast, showing how the world’s most populated city has changed over the past century.
Europe’s first dedicated Chinese Herb Garden at the University of Bristol's Botanic Garden will be officially opened this Saturday, 3 July at 12 noon. There will be 200 species of Chinese herbs within the garden including a mature female ginkgo tree.
A Gold medal winning garden - crowned ‘Best in Show’ at the 2021 RHS Chelsea Flower Show - that is leading the way in environmental sustainability, and gifted to Bristol by Guangzhou, will be unveiled at the University of Bristol’s Botanic Garden today, Wednesday 1 May 2024, after being rebuilt. Bristol has been twinned with Guangzhou since 2001.
What will the landscape of international higher education look like a generation from now? A WUN report by leading historians of higher education from around the world identifies ‘key moments’ in the internationalisation of higher education – moments when universities and university leaders responded to new historical circumstances by reorienting their relationship with the broader world.
Bristol’s Centre for Communications Research welcomed more than 100 researchers, from both academia and industry, for the fifth scientific meeting of the European Co-operation in Science and Technology (COST) action IC1004.
Well-known plantsman, broadcaster and writer will give the 2009 Annals of Botany Lecture organised by the University of Bristol’s Botanic Garden tomorrow [Thursday 28 May].
Living birds have a more crouched leg posture compared to their dinosaurian ancestors, which generally are thought to have moved with straighter limbs - similar to the postures of humans.
A cultural spectacular will welcome the Year of the Monkey at Bristol Museum & Art Gallery this weekend. Students and staff from the University of Bristol will be helping visitors to celebrate Chinese New Year in traditional style, with dancing lion performances, martial arts, traditional Chinese dances, storytelling, family trails, arts and craft activities, live music and much more on Saturday and Sunday [6 and 7 February].
