The ethical and governance review co-authored by Professor Cave concludes that a phased approach is needed – ‘soft’ governance implementing the UK SCBEM Code of Practice, as a stepping stone to ‘hard’ ...

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 ...

We’ve launched a new £5m research centre to support North East England’s growing space industry and lead on the sustainable exploration of the cosmos. The Durham University Space Research Centre ...

The research was empirical, based on listening to wide range of voices drawn from across parishes, dioceses and religious communities in England and Wales. The research team carried out eighty-two ...

Scientists from our top-rated Physics department and Newcastle University have developed a groundbreaking method to improve the stability and efficiency of organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs), a ...

Post Doctoral Research Associate, Dr Daniele Sorini, from our Institute for Computational Cosmology, discusses new research ...

Our students and graduates push the boundaries of possibility in entrepreneurship and innovation around the world. Durham students and graduates are supported to unleash their entrepreneurial ...

Researchers from our top-rated Psychology department have discovered that social bonding behaviours in chimpanzees, like grooming and play, can spread through groups much like contagious yawns or ...

MammalWeb was presented with the NBN Group Award 2024 at the National Biodiversity Network Conference. The NBN awards recognise and celebrate the outstanding contributions made to wildlife recording ...

Scientists from NASA and our Department of Physics have used supercomputer simulations to reveal that Mars’ moons may have been formed from destroyed asteroid fragments. The researchers found that an ...

*On the 20 week course, students study in a mixed cohort of all levels for the first ten weeks, before transferring across to a specific postgraduate or undergraduate pre-sessional class for the last ...