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  • Fibonacci sequence fronts new nanoscience building at Bristol University

    A famous mathematical pattern has inspired the stunning curved sail façade of Bristol University`s new £11 million Centre for Nanoscience and Quantum Information.
  • Self-repairing aircraft could revolutionize aviation safety

    ... after we cut ourselves, has been developed by aerospace engineers at Bristol University, with funding from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC). It has potential to be applied wherever ...
  • How can we measure the emotional states of animals?

    ... emotional state, according to new research by scientists at Bristol University Veterinary School, published in this week ... and Mike Mendl from the Centre for Behavioural Biology at Bristol University consider the research indicates that sensitivity ...
  • A plane with wings of glass?

    ... breakthrough in understanding the nature of glass by scientists at the University of Bristol, this has just become a possibility. Despite ... , Sir Charles Frank in the Physics Department at Bristol University suggested that the arrangement of the 'jam' should ...
  • Passports for penguins

    ... in Exabyte Informatics in the Department of Computer Science at Bristol University, said: "We believe the new technology developed ... and automatically." Peter Barham, Professor of Physics at Bristol University and penguin fanatic, who originated the project ...
  • Was it a bird or was it a plane?

    ... of extinct reptiles called kuehneosaurs, by scientists from the University of Bristol, England, shows that these early flyers ... while a student studying for an MSc in palaeobiology at Bristol University, has shown that of the of the two genera found in Britain ...
  • Insight into mechanisms of diabetes-induced microvascular disease reveals new therapies

    ... in the UK (source Diabetes UK). The research from the University of Bristol is published online in Circulation Research ... Costanza Emanueli, BHF Reader at Bristol University and colleagues at the Bristol Heart Institute have previously ...
  • Dinosaurs' 'superiority' challenged by their crocodile cousins

    ... ' to crurotarsans, or that they were out-competing crurotarsans. Steve Brusatte, who conducted the research while an MSc student in Bristol University's Department of Earth Sciences, said: "If we were standing ...
  • An 'electric' future for Formula 1 gearboxes?

    Bristol University student, Niall Oswald, has won the e2v Award for the Best Electronic Engineering Student ...
  • Making waves

    ... and Soundararajan is brilliant," said physicist Jens Marklof of Bristol University, "and tells us about the behaviour of a particle ... of Mathematics. According to Lev Kaplan, a physicist at Tulane University, "This is a good example of mathematical work inspired ...
  • Which way 'out of Africa'?

    ... of the National Academy of Sciences. A team led by the University of Bristol shows that wetter conditions reached ... thousand years ago). The Bristol University team, with collaborators from the universities of Southampton, Oxford, Hull ...
  • Science Weekly podcast: Mark Lythgoe on improvisation and the brain; space tourist Richard Garriott; plus mathematician Marcus du Sautoy

    ... of Simonyi Chair for the Public Understanding of Science at the University of Oxford.Space tourist Richard Garriott ... thoughts on our wall.In December, Mark will be speaking at Bristol University as part of a series of discussions between artists ...
  • New technology could revolutionize breast cancer screening

    ... radar breast imaging system developed at Bristol University that could revolutionise the way women are scanned ... Alan Preece and Dr Ian Craddock from the University of Bristol have been working for a number of years to develop ...
  • World's oldest nuclear family unearthed in Germany

    ... that will allow us to understand the rise of societies that are more modern," said Dr Alistair Pike, an archaeologist at Bristol University who was a member of the team.The site was discovered ...
  • New archaeologists excavate sites of protest to chronicle modern times

    ... . "Their landscapes and habitations are perhaps no less important than what was there before."Trained on projects such as Bristol University's celebrated excavation of their department's 15 ...

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