University of Bristol

The new study, published today, found one in ten UK Post Offices has been affected by a bank closure within 1km, and this has resulted in a 27 per cent rise in demand for cash deposit services. Following the economy rebounding…

Historians estimate that approximately 1.2 million Kenyans were forcibly resettled during the Mau Mau emergency which took place during the 1950s.This is in addition to the 80,000 Kenyans who were detained. The British colonial…

That’s according to two high profile university guides published by The Sunday Times and The Guardian, which also rated highly the University’s anatomy, criminology and science courses.Both painted positive pictures of the University,…

The List of Suspicious Things follows 12-year-old Miv as she navigates a 1970s Yorkshire plagued by the Yorkshire Ripper.Jennie drew heavily on her own experiences growing up in the West Yorkshire town of Dewsbury, where the ‘Ripper…

The 2023 schools and community brain art competition, part of the 2023 Bristol Neuroscience Festival, which coincides with the 20th anniversary of Bristol Neuroscience, is being run by Bristol Neuroscience in partnership with the Royal…

Measuring half-an-inch long, the fossil worm – named Wufengella and unearthed in China, was a stubby creature covered in a dense, regularly overlapping array of plates on its back, belonging to an extinct group of shelly organisms called…

The research was funded by The Academy of Medical Sciences and supported by the NIHR Biomedical Research Centre at University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust and the University of Bristol.Hip fractures are devastating injuries and…

The discovery, by an international team, led by Min Zhu of the Institute of Vertebrate Palaeontology and Palaeoanthropology, Bejiing and Professor Philip Donoghue from the University of Bristol’s School of Earth Sciences, shows the…

Antidepressants are one of the most widely prescribed drugs in England. In 2018, over 70-million antidepressant prescriptions were dispensed. The striking rise in prescribing (nearly doubling in a decade) is due mainly to long-term…

There has been quite a lot of speculation around these spheres found at sites on Santorini, Crete, Cyprus, and other Greek Islands with theories around their use including being for some sort of sling stones, tossing balls,…