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Scouting out bacterial defences to find new ways to counter-attack antibiotic resistance 15 November 2018 Research led by the University of Bristol has begun to unpick an important mechanism of antibiotic resistance and suggest approaches to block this resistance.

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.

Zebrafish gravitate to higher levels 22 October 2018 Zebrafish could help scientists understand the early stages of diseases such as osteoarthritis after spending time in hypergravity to investigate how their development is affected by increased loading conditions. Postgraduate students from the University of Bristol completed their study at the European Space Agency (ESA) European Space Research and Technology Centre last month.

Pictures from an eruption 7 December 2010 Scientists from Bristol were among a group visiting the Afar Rift in Ethiopia in November when a volcano in the region began erupting 鈥� the first time that scientists have witnessed such an occurrence there.

Bristol Medical School researcher awarded prestigious Diabetes UK fellowship 14 December 2018 A Bristol Medical School researcher has been awarded a prestigious Diabetes UK fellowship to understand more about adult onset type 1 diabetes. It is estimated that more than 300,000 people in the UK are living with the disease which develops when the immune system makes a mistake and destroys the cells that make insulin.

Almost half of the youngest children don鈥檛 know why they are in care, and a quarter of 11-18 year olds have three or more social workers in a year 14 November 2018 New findings from the largest annual survey measuring the wellbeing of children and young people in care reveal that nearly half (49 per cent) of four to seven-year-olds and a third (33 per cent) of eight to 11-year-olds do not fully understand why they are in care.

Multi-purpose silicon chip created for quantum information processing 20 August 2018 An international team of researchers led by the University of Bristol have demonstrated that light can be used to implement a multi-functional quantum processor.

New research shows U.S. Republican politicians increasingly spread news on social media from untrustworthy sources 22 September 2022 A study analysing millions of Tweets has revealed that Republican members of the US Congress are increasingly circulating news from dubious sources, compared to their European counterparts.

Bristol scientists shed light on blood flow problems in dementia 6 December 2010 Researchers at the University of Bristol's Dementia Research Group in the School of Clinical Sciences have uncovered some of the processes responsible for the blood flow problems connected with Alzheimer鈥檚 disease.

鈥楤ride-price鈥� in Uganda has negative impact on women 3 December 2009 A new report on the impact of 鈥榖ride-price鈥� in Uganda highlights a range of negative effects that the practice has on women鈥檚 lives. A common practice in African countries, whereby material goods or money are paid by a groom to a bride鈥檚 family upon their marriage, the practice can result in abuse and impoverishment for a woman if she does not fulfil her 鈥榲alue鈥� to the marriage or attempts to leave.