Bristol postgraduates win Best Doctoral Research Thesis awards 2015/16
Six University of Bristol postgraduates have been awarded prizes for the exceptional quality of their research degree theses.
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University celebrates its first century
The University is a hundred years old this year and today unveils the celebrations it has planned for 2009.
Graduates secure £40,000 to launch financial wellbeing app
Four University of Bristol graduates who created an app to help other young people become more financially confident have secured £40,000 in external funding to launch their idea.
Multi-purpose silicon chip created for quantum information processing
An international team of researchers led by the University of Bristol have demonstrated that light can be used to implement a multi-functional quantum processor.
Creating ‘synthetic’ fossils in the lab sheds light on fossilisation processes
A newly published experimental protocol, involving University of Bristol scientists, could change the way fossilisation is studied.
Research papers make top 100 most discussed research of 2018
Four published papers co-authored by University of Bristol researchers are ranked in this year’s Altmetric Top 100 papers.
Armoured worm reveals the ancestry of three major animal groups
An international team of scientists, including from the Universities of Bristol and Oxford, and the Natural History Museum, have discovered that a well-preserved fossilised worm dating from 518-million-years-ago resembles the ancestor of three major groups of living animals.
Environmental stability on Earth allowed marine biodiversity to flourish
Modern ocean biodiversity, which is at its highest level ever, was achieved through long-term stability of the location of so-called biodiversity hotspots, regions of especially high numbers of species, scientists have found.
Scientists simulate the climate of Game of Thrones
Winter is coming...as anyone who watches the hit TV series, Game of Thrones, knows.
New study unravels Darwin’s ‘abominable mystery’ surrounding origin of flowering plants
The origin of flowering plants famously puzzled Charles Darwin, who described their sudden appearance in the fossil record from relatively recent geological times as an “abominable mystery”. This mystery has further deepened with an inexplicable discrepancy between the relatively recent fossil record and a much older time of origin of flowering plants estimated using genome data.