The Royal Astronomical Society's (RAS) National Astronomy Meeting 2025 connects diverse communities ranging from professional ...

Such a mini-halo consists of highly energetic charged particles in the vacuum between galaxies in a cluster, which together ...

Older people in the North of England are more likely to be poorer, less healthy, physically inactive, lonely, and in poorer ...

The European Research Council (ERC) is the premier European funding organisation for frontier research. UK-based researchers ...

The red deer (Cervus elaphus) is Scotland’s largest surviving land mammal, which plays a crucial role in natural processes. They shape the landscape by grazing grasses, browsing tree shoots and shrubs ...

Scientists from our top-rated Physics department are playing a major role in the world’s most ambitious space project, the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST), led by the Vera C. Rubin Observatory.

Professor Brian Castellani, from our Department of Sociology, has made significant contributions to a new report identifying air pollution as a public health crisis. The report, published by the Royal ...

Researchers led by Professor Simon Cornish are working at the forefront of quantum physics, using cutting-edge techniques to explore the fundamental laws of nature.

We’re part of a collaboration to create three new ‘Green Corridors’ in the North East of England, transforming urban, suburban, and rural areas across the region. The pioneering £3m project aims to ...

The languages of the past can tell us more about human history than we might have thought. As a specialist in the ancient languages of Italy, Katherine McDonald uses linguistic detective work to ...

Founded in 1985, the Coimbra Group is an association of long-established European multi-disciplinary universities of high international standard and includes ourselves. The Group met in Durham in ...

Almost a thousand of the world’s top space scientists will visit Durham University next week (7 to 11 July) as we host the UK’s National Astronomy Meeting (NAM) 2025. NAM is the flagship annual event ...