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Clean water linked to rising birth rates in Africa: calls for development initiatives to consider women鈥檚 reproductive services 20 November 2018 A researcher from the University of Bristol presented research at Parliament yesterday that recommends the consideration of more holistic interventions in the world鈥檚 poorest countries.

New exhibition explores the impact of the Mau Mau emergency in 1950s Kenya 26 September 2022 Research undertaken by a University of Bristol historian has informed a major new exhibition by The Museum of British Colonialism, which is taking place in Nairobi, exploring the history of Britain鈥檚鈥榲illagisation鈥� programme in colonial Kenya.

Clues to the site of America's First Thanksgiving 19 November 2018 Archaeologists from the Universities of Bristol and Tennessee have located evidence for the site of America's first English Thanksgiving on the James River in Virginia.

Study could benefit eye disease patients whilst saving NHS both time and money 20 December 2018 Researchers from the University of Bristol, in collaboration with Queen's University Belfast, are leading a cutting-edge project, named the "MONARCH" study, that could benefit eye disease patients whilst saving both time and money within the NHS.

People needed to share their experience of dementia or memory problems 24 October 2018 Do you have experience of dementia or memory problems? Researchers from the University of Bristol and North Bristol NHS Trust are looking for patients or carers over the age of 45 to join a memory patient group to help further research into the disease.

Growing bio-inspired shapes with hundreds of tiny robots 19 December 2018 Hundreds of small robots can work in a team to create biology-inspired shapes 鈥� without an underlying master plan, purely based on local communication and movement. This is what researchers from Barcelona working with the Bristol Robotics Laboratory found when they introduced the biological principles of self-organisation to swarm robotics.

Glucose binding molecule could transform the treatment of diabetes 19 November 2018 Scientists from the University of Bristol have designed a new synthetic glucose binding molecule platform that brings us one step closer to the development of the world鈥檚 first glucose-responsive insulin which, say researchers, will transform the treatment of diabetes.

Bank closures drive people to the Post Office to handle cash 26 September 2022 The rise in local banking branches closing across the UK has increased the demand for access to cash deposit services at Post Offices, new research has found.

Discovery of Er Blood Group System 24 September 2022 Scientists from the University of Bristol and NHS Blood & Transplant (NHSBT) have discovered a rare new blood group system. The findings, published in Blood, the journal of the American Society of Hematology, also solve a 30-year mystery.

Earth's temperature more sensitive to carbon dioxide than previously thought 6 December 2009 In the long term, the Earth鈥檚 temperature may be 30-50 per cent more sensitive to atmospheric carbon dioxide than has previously been estimated, reports a new study published in Nature Geoscience this week. The results show that components of the Earth鈥檚 climate system that vary over long timescales 鈥� such as land-ice and vegetation 鈥� have an important effect on this temperature sensitivity, but these factors are often neglected in current climate models.