Guests were invited to explore, debate and imagine what 2035 would look and feel like with the arrival of 6G at the University of Bristol’s Connected Futures Festival.
University of Bristol researchers developing robot hands that can operate with human dexterity have received financial backing from Advanced Research + Invention Agency (ARIA).
Relaxation techniques may help lower high blood pressure—at least in the short term—but the longer term effects are unclear, finds a pooled data analysis of the existing research. The study, led by the Universities of Bristol and Exeter and published in BMJ Medicine, is funded by the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR).
Plans for the University of Bristol’s ‘transformational’ new campus have been unveiled, with the £300 million project to sit at the heart of the city’s Temple Quarter Enterprise Zone.
Professor Mike Ashfold FRS in the School of Chemistry has been awarded the American Physical Society’s prestigious Herbert P Broida Prize 2015.
Dr Colin Mapes, former lecturer in Biological Sciences at Bristol, has died. Sir Brian Follett FRS and several colleagues offer a remembrance.
An event to put the Muslim and Jewish history of Bristol on the map is taking place in Barton Hill next week (12 and 13 June).
Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, the point-of-care testing industry was investing millions of pounds to develop rapid tests to tell us the cause of respiratory infections. The pandemic has accelerated this process. In an editorial published in the British Journal of General Practice today [17 November], researchers from the University of Bristol’s Centre for Academic Primary Care ask if we know enough about these tests to merit their widespread use in primary care.
A University of Bristol student from the Department of Mechanical Engineering has won the Student in a Million 2014 Inner Strength award for showing incredible resolve to continue with his studies despite battling a terminal brain tumour.
New technology has been developed that uses nuclear waste to generate electricity in a nuclear-powered battery. A team of physicists and chemists from the University of Bristol have grown a man-made diamond that, when placed in a radioactive field, is able to generate a small electrical current.
