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The couple formed Upacare Health to offer a 21st-century solution for the underdeveloped primary healthcare systems of many developing nations. Their aim is to pioneer in Nepal and then expand to other South Asian countries where there…

This observation of a gas giant planet orbiting a Sun-like star 700 light-years away provides important insights into the composition and formation of the planet.The finding, which involved academics from the University of Bristol and is…

The University of Bristol team will go head-to-head with Durham University in the first round of this year’s new season of University Challenge, broadcasting on BBC 2 at 8.30pm.Fulfilling a dream, Tess applied for the show after being…

The seed for LettUs Grow was sown in response to the growing threat of climate change and global food insecurity by developing a vertical and indoor farming system that grows plants suspended in the air using a mist to deliver nutrients.…

The study, published in BJOG, was led by researchers at the University of Bristol and Karolinska Institutet in Sweden and used data from Children of the 90s – a longitudinal study of over 14,000 individuals.The study sought to address…

The brainchild of local artists and Watershed Pervasive Media Studio residents Ella Good and Nicki Kent, the project has been designed over several years and brought together space scientists, world renowned architects, engineers,…

Resembling an angry Minion, the Saccorhytus is a spikey, wrinkly sack, with a large mouth surrounded by spines and holes that were interpreted as pores for gills – a primitive feature of the deuterostome group, from which our own deep…

Most people recognise that fungi come in an assortment of shapes and sizes. However, these differences, often referred to as the disparity of a group, had never been analysed collectively.Researcher Thomas Smith, who conducted the study…

The Bristol trail is one of ten held in seven UK cities as part of a project called The World Reimagined. The globes – which have all been individually designed by artists - will be on display to the public until 31 October.The…

The team built the robot to mimic the behaviour of rock ants that use one-to-one tuition, in which an ant that has discovered a much better new nest can teach the route there to another individual.The findings, published in the Journal of…