Caption: Professor Karen O'Brien, Vice-Chancellor and Warden of Durham University, and Paul Ramsbottom OBE, Wolfson ...

Durham Global Week 2025 will take place from Saturday 1 – Sunday 9 March 2025. All staff and students are encouraged to get involved, by submitting proposals for events to be part of the programme.

Interneurons work a bit like the brain's traffic controllers where they regulate the firing of other brain cells, acting like a sophisticated brake system. This control is critical because when ...

We’ve launched a new £5m research centre to support North East England’s growing space industry and lead on the sustainable ...

This opportunity is for Year 12 students from Black-heritage backgrounds. STEP is part of Durham's summer school programmes to support students who are typically underrepresented in higher education, ...

We’re sharing in an investment of almost £30m to train the next generation of researchers to tackle the world’s environmental ...

In a new study, scientists from our top-rated Biosciences department joined forces with researchers from Jagiellonian University (Poland), and the John Innes Centre to reveal how a bacterial enzyme ...

The North East Space Communications Accelerator (NESCA) will launch in 2025. It is an exciting new collaboration designed to ...

General Relativity is one of the most elegant and profound theories in Physics. That the Universe seems to conform to its ...

Our annual FREE family festival will be back in 2024! Enjoy three fun-packed and fascinating days of free family activities. Explore the wonders of our universe, carry out amazing experiments and ...