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The dogged couple have already raised more than £75,000 in memory of Stuart’s brother with their daring attempt to compete in all 96 Olympic sports during the 17 days of the Tokyo Games.Charlotte, a medical student at the University of…

The study, led by academics at the University of Bristol and published today in Nature Communications, has discovered a link between corticosteroid receptors – the mineralocorticoid receptor (MR) and the glucocorticoid receptor (GR) -…

The University of Bristol has been leading sectoral efforts to embed open research across institutions.The Minister for Science also announced £650,000 funding from Research England, over three years, for Octopus, a novel and disruptive…

Between 40 and 34 million years ago, Earth’s climate underwent a major climatic transition. Before 40 million years ago, during the Eocene, Antarctica was covered by lush forests, but by 34 million years ago, in the Oligocene, these…

Tetrapods include mammals, reptiles and amphibians - everything from salamanders to humans. Their origin represents a crucial time in animal evolution, from the development of limbs with digits and the shift from water on to land. The…

Traditionally, giraffes were thought to have little or no social structure, and only fleeting, weak relationships. However in the last ten years, research has shown that giraffe social organisation is much more advanced than once…

Between 40 and 34 million years ago, Earth’s climate underwent a major climatic transition. Before 40 million years ago, during the Eocene, Antarctica was covered by lush forests, but by 34 million years ago, in the Oligocene, these…

Funded with a £7 million UK Prevention Research Partnership (UKPRP) grant, the five-year (2021 to 2026) data analysis ‘Violence, Health and Society’ project is one of three major research projects UKPRP launched this week, with the common…

Dr Amber Young, 53, was just two weeks into her Fellowship, when she was given the devastating diagnosis that she had secondary cancer in her liver and bones. Amber was told that without immediate treatment she would die and was quickly…

Mills, who sailed to gold at Rio 2016, has been chosen to carry the British flag at the Olympic opening ceremony alongside gold medal-winning rower Mohamed Sbihi.The 33-year-old Mechanical Engineering graduate, who will be defending her…