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Using composites for traffic bridges could save time and money 20 December 2010 New research, led by Dr Wendel Sebastian in the Department of Civil Engineering, suggests the use of advanced composite decks for traffic bridges could be the answer to building bridges in half the time, thereby dramatically reducing costs and traffic flow disruption.

Bees use invisible heat patterns to choose flowers 19 December 2017 A new study, led by scientists from the University of Bristol, has found that a wide range of flowers produce not just signals that we can see and smell, but also ones that are invisible such as heat.

Jurassic ichthyosaurs divided food resources to co-exist, researchers find 3 October 2022 Early Jurassic ichthyosaur juveniles show predatory specialisations, scientists at the University of Bristol have revealed.

Sound waves levitate multiple objects 鈥� future technology for contactless medical procedures 17 December 2018 In the perhaps not so distant future, surgeons could perform a range of medical procedures all without touching the patient.

The "ship of the desert" 18 December 2017 Academics at the University of Bristol will investigate how the one-humped Arabian camel can thrive in the hot and dry environment of the desert, where water is scarce, thanks to a grant from the Leverhulme Trust. Working with scientists in North Africa and the Middle East they hope to better understand how animals can adapt to deserts and climate change.

New insight into Alzheimer鈥檚 disease 24 December 2008 A new molecule important in a part of the memory that allows recognition of people has been identified by researchers at the University of Bristol.

Scientists hatch plans to send egg beneath Antarctic ice sheets 11 December 2009 拢225,000 has been awarded to the University of Bristol to develop a new instrument to probe the depths of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets, in order to monitor their behaviour in a warming climate.

Could cognitive interventions be useful in treating depression? 18 December 2017 A new study by experimental psychologists from the University of Bristol has examined whether cognitive bias modification (CBM) for facial interpretation, a digital health intervention that changes our perception for emotional expressions from negative to positive, might be useful in treating depression.

Significant gaps and inequalities in the provision of specialist child weight management services in England, study finds 30 November 2022 Over three quarters of acute NHS trusts in England (77%) do not have a child weight management service, despite being responsible for providing specialist services for the most severely obese, according to a study led by researchers at the University of Bristol and funded by the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR).

New discovery pushes origin of feathers back by 70 million years 17 December 2018 An international team of palaeontologists, which includes the University of Bristol, has discovered that the flying reptiles, pterosaurs, actually had four kinds of feathers, and these are shared with dinosaurs 鈥� pushing back the origin of feathers by some 70 million years.