Older people in the North of England are more likely to be poorer, less healthy, physically inactive, lonely, and in poorer ...

The European Research Council (ERC) is the premier European funding organisation for frontier research. UK-based researchers ...

Such a mini-halo consists of highly energetic charged particles in the vacuum between galaxies in a cluster, which together emanate radio waves which we can detect from Earth. The discovery shows that ...

Professor Brian Castellani, from our Department of Sociology, has made significant contributions to a new report identifying air pollution as a public health crisis. The report, published by the Royal ...

A team of researchers, including Dr Rachel White from our Department of English Studies, has presented new evidence about one of the most famous insults in English literature – the phrase ‘upstart ...

Founded in 1985, the Coimbra Group is an association of long-established European multi-disciplinary universities of high international standard and includes ourselves. The Group met in Durham in ...

Human persecution leads to anxiety and physiological stress amongst baboons. That’s according to the findings of new research by our Department of Anthropology. The study looked at how a group of ...

Scientists from our top-rated Physics department are playing a major role in the world’s most ambitious space project, the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST), led by the Vera C. Rubin Observatory.

The languages of the past can tell us more about human history than we might have thought. As a specialist in the ancient languages of Italy, Katherine McDonald uses linguistic detective work to ...

Researchers led by Professor Simon Cornish are working at the forefront of quantum physics, using cutting-edge techniques to explore the fundamental laws of nature.

Luke Sunderland, a Professor in French from our School of Modern Languages and Cultures, combines his research on the Middle Ages with stand-up comedy. During July and August he is due to perform at ...

A new book co-edited by Dr Adam Powell, of our Department of Theology and Religion, takes an unexpected look at one of Netflix’s most popular series. ‘Religion and Theology in Stranger Things’ ...