The North East Space Communications Accelerator (NESCA) will launch in 2025. It is an exciting new collaboration designed to ...

MammalWeb was presented with the NBN Group Award 2024 at the National Biodiversity Network Conference. The NBN awards recognise and celebrate the outstanding contributions made to wildlife recording ...

General Relativity is one of the most elegant and profound theories in Physics. That the Universe seems to conform to its ...

Scientists from our top-rated Physics department and Newcastle University have developed a groundbreaking method to improve the stability and efficiency of organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs), a ...

We tested whether “anthropic reasoning” may offer a suitable answer. Anthropic reasoning is the idea that we can infer properties of our universe from the fact that we, humans, exist. In the late 80s, ...

Scientists from NASA and our Department of Physics have used supercomputer simulations to reveal that Mars’ moons may have ...

Five Durham researchers have been named on a prestigious list for their world-leading research.

We’ve joined UNICEF’s Children’s Environmental Health Collaborative (CEHC) to help protect children from the harmful consequences of air pollution on a global scale. The Collaborative involves ...

Our researchers have studied wild monkeys problem-solving for food to better understand how social dynamics can influence behaviour and learning.  The research team, led by our Department of ...

The Lived Experience Academy aims to nurture talent in the lived experience community, create further opportunities for collaboration and provide opportunities for new research ideas. The research ...

The groundbreaking research is captured on the front of the December issue of National Geographic Magazine’s 'Pictures of the Year’ edition. The image by world-renowned cave photographer and project ...

Matthew has published a new short book called 'Teleology', which is part of the Elements in Metaphysics series (Cambridge University Press). Teleology is about functions, ends, and goals in nature.