Half of the world’s population is bilingual or multilingual, with over 6,000 different languages spoken in the world today. But…
European governments must act to help families improve their children’s health and tackle the obesity epidemic. That’s the advice of…
A low-cost chip that enables batteries in sensors to last longer, in some cases by over ten times, has been…
BRISTOL, 04-Jan-2017 — /EuropaWire/ — Tractor beams are mysterious rays that can grab and attract objects. The concept has been shown…
Sir Paul Nurse, a Nobel Prize-winning scientist and former President of the Royal Society, will today [1 January] begin his…
Over 1,600 visitors are booked to attend the University of Bristol’s first institution-wide postgraduate open day on Wednesday [23 November].…
The most detailed exploration to date of how energy flows from a hot molecule into a surrounding liquid has been…
NOTTINGHAM, 04-Oct-2016 — /EuropaWire/ — Failure to assess people’s language skills when recruiting patients to clinical trials for diabetes treatments may…
A team from the University of Bristol and North Bristol NHS Trust (NBT) has been selected by the Health Foundation,…
Sir Paul Nurse, the next Chancellor of the University of Bristol, and Professor Kelvyn Jones of the School of Geographical…
Snow developed in Bristol will soon be playing a starring role in Hollywood blockbusters and cult TV series thanks to…
An international research team, including the University of Bristol, has calculated the costs and benefits of calcification for phytoplankton and…
BRISTOL, 15-Jul-2016 — /EuropaWire/ — The University of Bristol is awarding honorary degrees to Fahma Mohamed, Professor Lesley Yellowlees and Dr…
BRISTOL, 31-Mar-2016 — /EuropaWire/ — Women in prominent board positions could help organisations improve corporate social performance, new research claims. Professor…
An international team of scientists, led by the China University of Geosciences in Beijing and including palaeontologists from the University…
A major new report out today [18 January] has revealed that students at the University of Bristol are among the…
A breakthrough in the transformation of human cells by an international team led by researchers at the University of Bristol…
BRISTOL, 02-11-2015 — /EuropaWire/ — Bristol could lead the way in becoming a ‘child-friendly’ city thanks to a project that…
Engineering students from the University of Bristol are developing a unique unmanned airborne system (UAS) that will be used to…
The factors that drive children’s choices of food and the most effective ways of making healthy meals more appetising to…
Fossils found in a quarry in Gloucestershire have been identified by a student and her supervisors at the University of…
New strains of the human pathogen responsible for African sleeping sickness can arise by swapping genes between human and animal…
A flavour of Bristol was recreated in Beijing as almost 350 Chinese students who studied at the University of Bristol…
LONDON, 17-4-2015 — /EuropaWire/ — Men give more money through fundraising websites after seeing that other men have donated large amounts…
Dr Paul Howard Jones from Bristol’s Graduate School of Education will feature in a new Channel 4 documentary [broadcast 10…
The feeding habits of an unusual 200-million-year-old fish have been uncovered by a University of Bristol undergraduate in a groundbreaking…
A new project, hosted at the University of Bristol and funded by the Hatton Trust, which aims to encourage and…
Low doses of fluoxetine – better known as the anti-depressant Prozac – could hold the key to preventing PMS symptoms,…
With over 42 million horses and 95 per cent of the world’s donkeys found in developing countries, new research could…
BRISTOL, 18-9-2014 — /EuropaWire/ — Talking taxidermy that brings to life the brutal history of the 'plume boom'; a magical…
Researchers have found evidence that genetic factors may contribute to the development of language during infancy. BRISTOL, 18-9-2014 — /EuropaWire/…
A new species of tree frog has been discovered in the forests of Madagascar by an MSc student at the…
The percentage of households falling below society’s minimum standard of living has increased from 14 per cent to 33 per…
Last summer, scientists from the University of Bristol discovered the longest canyon in the world buried beneath three kilometres of…
Bristol, UK, 1-4-2014 — /EuropaWire/ — Using an acoustic metadevice that can influence the acoustic space and can control any of the ways…
Bristol, UK, 1-4-2014 — /EuropaWire/ — Members of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Working Group II will publish their first…
A new branch of mathematics has been established to create a better drug control system to cure cancer. Bristol, UK, 6-2-2014…
Bristol, UK, 6-2-2014 — /EuropaWire/ — Two University of Bristol projects have received a total of £162,400 funding from the Natural…
06-8-2013 — /EuropaWire/ — The grey long-eared bat should be afforded ‘UK Priority Species’ status, according to Dr Orly Razgour of…