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As the region's policy makers arrive at the University of Birmingham this evening to discuss the hydrogen economy, we take a look back at where it all started.

The lost world of British hunter-gatherers is brought to life in a new book published this week.

Test your biology knowledge with some of the questions from today's Biology Big Quiz for local Year 10 students.

HRH the Duke of Kent will visit the University of Birmingham Institute of Occupational and Environmental Medicine this week to commemorate the institute's 25 years of work. The visit comes at a time when institute scientists are warning of a number of emerging environmental health risks particularly in the developing world.

The European Union's intervention in democracy building in the Middle East has not really addressed the lack of basic rights and needs in that region, according to research at the University of Birmingham.

The University of Birmingham is launching a new way of telling Brummies about its research on the city.

David H. Levy, American comet discoverer, will be at the University of Birmingham on Monday 9th March to talk about 'Poetry of the Night: A marvellous union between science and literature'.

The University of Birmingham's annual 'Issues in Criminal Justice' lecture series begins on Wednesday 4 March with a speech from the Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales, the Rt Hon Lord Igor Judge.

A 'green' concert performed by reggae artist Carlos Dadawah will be entirely powered by hydrogen, thanks to the expertise of engineer Alex Bevan from the University of Birmingham.

Birmingham will today become the first link in a unique chain of Cancer Research UK Centres to be launched round the country. These cancer centres will draw together world class research and areas of medical expertise to achieve the best possible results for cancer patients nationwide. As the first Cancer Research UK Centre, Birmingham will set the pace for national and international progress for genetics, gene therapy and the link between viruses and some cancers as well as focusing on cancers of the prostate and bladder and leukaemia.

Researchers at the Universities of Birmingham and Warwick are calling on all vegetable growers so that they can learn more about traditional and unusual vegetable varieties that are still grown, with a view to preserving them for use by future generations.

Residents across Birmingham are being asked to help researchers with a major project that aims to understand how some of our best loved garden birds survive in Birmingham's urban jungle.

A University of Birmingham research student, Beatrice Duncan has been appointed by the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) to review the Beijing Platform for Action adopted at the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women.

The University of Birmingham has won funding to run the UK's first NERC-funded centre to use metabolomics technologies to study the environment. The new national Environmental Metabolomics Facility supported by funding from NERC (Natural Environment Research Council) will lead work using the new technology to understand the interactions between an organism and its natural environment.

Three University of Birmingham Sport students have helped the GB Youth Hockey team win gold at the Australian Youth Olympic Festival.

Research by the University of Birmingham has provided evidence that a warm atmosphere rich in carbon dioxide was present in an ancient ice age. This could only have happened if the planet was nearly all covered in ice and snow. Scientists from the University's School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, say that, whereas today, we associate more greenhouse gases with a warm world, in a very severe ice age, even plenty of greenhouse gas cannot stop the world being covered in reflective ice and snow.