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New network launched to establish best practices for wastewater surveillance of pathogens with potential to cause a pandemic.

A team of researchers, including Dr Rachel White from our Department of English Studies, has presented new evidence about one of the most famous insults in English literature - the phrase 'upstart crow' aimed at William Shakespeare.

A £20 device which makes fertiliser by treating water with ultrasound could transform agricultural supply chains in remote areas, its inventors say. Chemists and engineers from the University of Glasgow have found a way to produce molecules of nitrate - an important nutrient for plant growth - using just sound waves, water and air.

The placenta and the hormones it produces may have played a crucial role in the evolution of the human brain, while also leading to the behavioural traits that have made human societies able to thrive and expand, according to a new hypothesis proposed by researchers from the Universities of Cambridge and Oxford.

Radioactive iodine treatment after thyroid cancer surgery usually means side effects like nausea and time in hospital isolated from loved ones. But new clinical trial results from researchers at UCL mean patients worldwide could now safely be spared this treatment. Globally, around 820,000 people are diagnosed with thyroid cancer each year.

University of Manchester scientists studying invasive aspergillosis are both the world's most cited and the most prolific on the topic, according to an analysis published by Guangxi university in the journal Medicine.

University of Birmingham-s Department of Applied Health Sciences designated as WHO Collaborating Centre for Integrated Emergency, Critical, and Operative Care.

A leading Leeds researcher who played an important role in Britain's response to the pandemic has collaborated on a major new report highlighting growing evidence of health risks from air pollution.

Before the 'Out of Africa' migration that led our ancestors into Eurasia and beyond, human populations learned to adapt to new and challenging habitats including African forests and deserts, which was key to the long-term success of our species' dispersal. It's incredibly exciting that we were able to look back in time and pinpoint the changes that enabled our ancestors to successfully migrate out of Africa.

Comment: How pterosaurs learned to fly: scientists have been looking in the wrong place to solve thi Writing in The Conversation, Dr Alfio Alessandro Chiarenza (UCL Earth Sciences) explains how climate, ecology and evolutionary science have come together to reveal how pterosaurs learned to fly.