University of Southampton

TV presenter and zoologist Megan McCubbin joined past and present staff and students to mark 50 years of environmental science at the University of Southampton.Megan, President of Hampshire and Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust and BBC…

An international team of researchers has fully sequenced the genome of a climate resilient bean that could bolster food security in drought-prone regions.The sequencing of the hyacinth bean or ‘lablab bean’ paves the way for wider…

Understanding how women sweat could unlock the secrets to better sports bra designs, according to researchers from the University of Southampton.Their research is examining women’s body temperature and sweat during different life phases,…

Politician Caroline Nokes MP has praised University of Southampton academics for their pioneering work which found inequalities in both the treatment of men and women with debilitating bone diseases and sex bias in laboratory…

A study by an international team of researchers, led by the University of Southampton, has given an intriguing glimpse of the hunting habits and diets of Neanderthals and other humans living in western Europe.The scientists examined…

Most antidepressants used for chronic pain are being prescribed with “insufficient” evidence of their effectiveness, scientists have warned.A major investigation into medications used to manage long-term pain found that harms of many of…

New research led by the universities of Southampton and Oxford has found that the risk of long COVID is strongly associated with area-level deprivation, with the odds of having long COVID 46 percent higher for people from the most…

A team of astronomers led by the University of Southampton have uncovered the largest cosmic explosion ever witnessed.The explosion is more than ten times brighter than any known supernova (exploding star) and three times brighter than…

A team of researchers led by the University of Southampton has shown that a cheap and readily available drug, used to treat high blood pressure, could help the thousands of women who suffer from persistent acne.The SAFA study, funded by…

The search for new cancer treatments in Southampton has been given a multi-million-pound boost providing hope for people diagnosed with the disease.Cancer Research UK is to invest £5.5m over the next five years at the Southampton Clinical…