The Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica – about the size of Florida – has been an elephant in the room for scientists trying to make global sea level rise predictions.
A new way of using compost could boost global crop production and deliver huge benefits to the planet, according to a study co-led by The University of Queensland.
A team of University of British Columbia researchers working on developing oral insulin tablets as a replacement for daily insulin injections have made a game-changing discovery.
Those in the program enjoyed more success compared to going it alone
UBCO researchers develop framework for safe disposal of soiled materials
UBC researchers are part of an international collaboration that has discovered how to control the stickiness of adhesive bandages using ultrasound waves and bubbles.
UBCO researcher creates hundreds of scenarios, determines importance of coral diversity
Using advanced neuroimaging, UBC scientists are changing how we understand and treat mental health disorders.
A woman’s mercury level during pregnancy is unlikely to have an adverse effect on the development of the child provided that the mother eats fish, according to a new University of Bristol-led study.
A team of scientists, led by the University of Bristol, has uncovered intriguing new insights into the diet of people living in Neolithic Britain and found evidence that cereals, including wheat, were cooked in pots.
Boosting physical activity levels and curbing sitting time are highly likely to lower breast cancer risk, finds research designed to strengthen proof of causation.
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.
Researchers at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy found that men who consumed high rates of ultra-processed foods were at higher risk for developing colorectal cancer than those who did not
Day and night, and across seasons, the instrument generates breathable oxygen from the Red Planet’s thin atmosphere.
Young people living with a genetic alteration that increases the risk of psychiatric disorders have markedly different brain activity during sleep, a study led by researchers from the Universities of Bristol and Cardiff published in the journal eLife shows.
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.
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.
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.