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The study showed water-rich (hydrous) magmas (extremely hot liquid rocks) formed in the Earth’s mantle – the layer beneath its crust – are more buoyant and fluid than previously believed. This discovery allows us to predict how and where…

Bristol is now the UK hotbed of robot combat, with dozens of engineers and enthusiasts building vicious machines for bruising mechanical melees.That’s according to Joe Brown, from Bristol Bot Builders, who has been making and fighting…

University of Bristol graduates Amber Probyn, 23, and Hazel McShane, 25, say their flatpack portable urinals made of recycled sea plastics are six times faster to use and produce 98% less carbon than traditional portable toilets.And…

The international research team, led by the University of Bristol, has developed an innovative statistical approach – called space-time statistical inference – to quantify and separate the different sources of increasing sea levels.Thanks…

The total raised was equivalent to 15% of the total £636 million secured by Bristol businesses in 2021, evidence of a promising market recovery since Covid.Based at the city’s Engine Shed innovation hub, SETsquared Bristol supports the…

This new advance, published today in the journal Science Robotics, could pave the way for smaller, lighter and more effective micro flying robots for environmental monitoring, search and rescue, and deployment in hazardous…

In this new study, a multidisciplinary research team from the University’s Bristol Heart Institute sought to investigate how SARS-CoV-2 interacts with heart cells causing the myocardial damage seen in COVID-19 patients. Until now, it…

The University of Bristol-led study, published today in Nature Climate Change, deployed advanced modelling techniques to make the colossal calculations, which forecasted average annual flood losses would increase by 26.4% from US$32…

The study, published in Circulation Research, used a multidisciplinary approach involving four different study designs, including data from Children of the 90s – a longitudinal study of over 14,000 individuals.The scientists demonstrated…

The aim of the two-year project will be to help shift the public conversation around death and grief and create a more inclusive, compassionate and open society, by:Working with partners to deliver and evaluate three pilot projects that…