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A new method for identifying which bones have a high risk of fracture, and for monitoring the effectiveness of new bone-strengthening drugs and techniques, has been developed by scientists at the University of Cambridge.

A statistician is someone who, with one hand in the freezer and the other in the fire, says, "On average, I'm fine".

University scientists are helping to investigate how plants save enough energy to stay alive at night.

PA 195/10 Academics are to devise new methods of detecting potentially fatal faults in engineering systems and more cost effective and efficient ways of planning maintenance as part of a new research centre being launched at The University of Nottingham.

Next generation of science leaders at Imperial awarded £8 million in new Fellowships Engineers and scientists celebrate new EPSRC Fellowships - News By Colin Smith and Lucy Goodchild Tuesday 27 July

New MSc at Imperial to help biologists tackle big issues MSc in Quantitative Biology will focus on recent research - News Wednesday 21 July 2010 By Becci Thompson and Lucy Goodchild Biologists of the

A group of mathematicians is hitting the streets of Manchester this week in a bid to win over shoppers and passers-by, combining the seemingly disparate worlds of mathematics and busking.

Imagine you could work out the answer to a question, without knowing what the question was. For example, suppose someone thinks of two numbers and then asks another person to work out their sum, without letting them know what the two numbers are. However, they are given an encryption of the two numbers but not told how to decrypt them.

Four researchers from the University of Oxford have been elected as new Fellows of the Royal Society. The new Fellows are Professor Philip Candelas, Professor Georg Gottlob, Professor Robert C Griffiths and Professor Ian Hickson. Professor Philip Candelas is Rouse-Ball Professor of Mathematics at the Mathematical Institute, and a Fellow of Wadham College.

By Lucy Goodchild and Colin Smith Tuesday 4 May 2010 Developing a theory to predict the effect of environmental change on ecosystems and using a new kind of physics to give microchips more memory are two of the aims of four new European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grants awarded to researchers at Imperial College London.

A warning to warring politicians on the election trail: according to a study, engaging in tit-for-tat vendettas may well destroy your rival — but is just as likely to destroy you.

A UCL-led team of researchers has won a grant worth more than £850,000 to develop a new model of energy consumption.

This Easter, motorists will experience the familiar frustration of being stuck on a motorway in a 'phantom' traffic jam that eventually disperses with no road works to blame, or any other apparent cause.

Good textbooks are more important for high attainment in maths than factors such as setting or expensive IT equipment, according to a new study by King's academics into international comparisons of maths attainment in schools.

Give school children a taste of real science, says Robert Winston at opening of Imperial College London Reach Out Lab A unique laboratory, supporting practical science in schools is opened today at I

Sylvia Jones, headteacher at Valentines High School in Redbridge, north east London, has been appointed Principal of the new UCL Academy, and will take up the post in September 2010.

City Hall photo exhibition provides a peek into the lives of women in science at Imperial College London The portrait exhibition of women in science, engineering, technology and Medicine can be seen

Imperial's Shaw Prize winner talks about life as a mathematics researcher An interview with Imperial's Professor Simon Donaldson %0A " By Danielle Reeves Tuesday 1 December 2009 Simon Donaldson , Pro

The Social and Spatial Inequalities Research Group at the University of Sheffield's Geography Department has carried out research into the changing social geography of Sheffield. The research was commissioned by Sheffield Brightside MP David Blunkett. The researchers analysed a wide range of indicators, obtained from a variety of sources, including South Yorkshire´s Local Area Statistics On-line Service (LASOS), NHS Sheffield and Sheffield City Council, as well as national data sources such as the Office for National Statistics, Neighbourhood Statistics and HM Land Registry.

Imperial maths students sweep the board at science 'Oscars' College maths undergraduates take three top places in Student of the Year awards %0A " By Danielle Reeves Tuesday 13 October 2009 An Imperi

Imperial welcomes top early-career researchers to new Fellowships Junior Research Fellows take up their posts %0A " By Laura Gallagher Thursday 8 October 2009 The first cohort of top early-career res

UCL has been awarded four prestigious European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grants, worth a total of '4.8 million to the university.

Attractive males release fewer sperm per mating to maximise their chances of producing offspring across a range of females, according to a new paper on the evolution of ejaculation strategies.

Prestigious prize for Imperial mathematician who solved 140 year old maths problem Professor Darren Crowdy commended for outstanding contribution to his field %0A " By Danielle Reeves Wednesday 17 Ju

PA 113/09 It is the most famous scientific equation in history, framed by Einstein more than a century ago.

Scientists at the University of Sheffield are one step closer to launching a satellite mission to measure the biomass in the Earth´s forests.