New University of Bristol-led research has highlighted several potential welfare concerns relating to how snakes are kept in private homes including issues with enclosure size, temperature and humidity.
New research has discovered that Muslims’ so-called 'sociocultural attitudes' cannot explain their poor labour market outcomes in the British labour market.
Protection against severe COVID-19 by two doses of Pfizer-BioNTech and AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines remained high up to six months after second doses, finds new research which analysed NHS health record data on over seven million adults.
New research has revealed an association between the feeding of raw meat to pet dogs and the presence of bacteria resistant to critically important antibiotics.
A set of genes that promote sweet taste sensation is also crucial for protein management during fly development, according to a new study led by of the University of Bristol and colleagues, published today (July 21) in the open-access journal PLOS Biology.
Military men who had been present when British nuclear weapons were tested in the 1950s and 60s are no more likely to pass on to their descendants more changes to their DNA in comparison to other veterans, a new study involving University of Bristol researchers, has found.
Prehistoric people in Europe were consuming milk thousands of years before humans evolved the genetic trait allowing us to digest the milk sugar lactose as adults, finds a new study.
Genetic mutations which cause a debilitating hereditary kidney disease affecting children and young adults have been fixed in patient-derived kidney cells using a potentially game-changing DNA repair-kit.
University of Bristol research could lead to better detection of the most common type of malignant brain cancer.
Scientists at the University of Bristol have uncovered the deadly workings of a carnivorous plant.
A consistent approach to NHS policies on surgical innovation is urgently needed, a landmark study by University of Bristol researchers has shown.
Researchers at the University of Bristol and Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre have discovered that super-eruptions occur when huge accumulations of magma deep in the Earth’s crust, formed over millions of years, move rapidly to the surface disrupting pre-existing rock.
An increase in the number of non-COVID-19 respiratory infections should be expected this winter, say scientists.
Scientists have developed a small robot to understand how ants teach one another.
Scientists at the University of Bristol have discovered that the vast anatomical variety of fungi stems from evolutionary increases in multicellular complexity.
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.
Sexual enjoyment in the years following childbirth is unaffected by the way in which the baby is delivered, according to new research.
Male bottlenose dolphins form the largest known multi-level alliance network outside humans, an international team led by researchers at the University of Bristol have shown.
How well patients recover after a hip fracture varies enormously between NHS hospitals in England and Wales and in some hospitals one in ten patients died within a month of their fracture, a new study has found.
Young people living with a genetic alteration that increases the risk of psychiatric disorders have markedly different brain activity during sleep,