University of Bristol

Research to improve battery performance has received backing from the Faraday Institution, a leader in energy storage.A team of scientists, including Dr Alistair Hales from Bristol’s Department of Mechanical Engineering are developing…

Two University of Bristol academics have been awarded prestigious ERC Advanced Grants totalling almost £2.5m Euros each for their ground-breaking work.The recipients of the grants Professor Anthony Davis and Professor Varinder Aggarwal…

An app built by a University of Bristol student helps detect essays written by AI bots like ChatGPT.Ed Daniels’s software start-up, called AIED.UK, scans essays for AI-generated content and calculates the probability it was written by a…

Work on the University of Bristol’s new Temple Quarter Enterprise Campus – a total investment of around £500 million - will get underway next month after the University signed contracts with construction company Sir Robert…

A team of Bristol scientists will reinstate and improve radiological monitoring systems within the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone (ChEZ) and inside the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant (ChNPP), impacted by the Russian invasion.Part of the NATO…

New analysis has found increasing emissions of several ozone-depleting chemicals despite their production being banned for most uses under the Montreal Protocol – and a loophole in the rules is likely responsible.The research, published…

Student entrepreneurs will pitch for a share of £75,000 in start-up funding at the University of Bristol Innovation Showcase 2023.During the public event on Tuesday, May 9, a dozen University of Bristol ventures will pitch to a panel of…

An innovative technique to detect and characterise molecules with greater precision has been proposed, paving the way for significant advances in environmental monitoring, medical diagnostics, and industrial processes.The new quantum…

A University of Bristol spin-out company which specialises in making technology such as smartphones and wearable electronic devices easier to design, has raised £6.7 million in a new funding round.Forefront RF is a company which designs…

A new study, published today in Communications Biology, shows that skull bones were successively reduced in early mammals around 150 to 100 million years ago. The research further demonstrated that alongside the reduction of skull bones,…