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  • New research links individual animal behaviour with social spacing 30 September 2013 New research by the universities of Bristol and Princeton has found certain animal species are capable of co-ordinating their spatial behaviour to cover terrain by maintaining areas of exclusive use while sharing other regions of space with their neighbours.
  • Silk and cellulose biologically effective for use in stem cell cartilage repair 8 May 2013 Over 20 million people in Europe suffer from osteoarthritis which can lead to extensive damage to the knee and hip cartilage. Stem cells offer a promising way forward but a key challenge has been to design a 鈥榮mart material鈥� that is biologically effective for cartilage tissue regeneration. Now researchers have identified a blend of naturally occurring fibres such as cellulose and silk that makes progress towards affordable and effective cell-based therapy for cartilage repair a step closer.
  • Bristol vet student wins first ever award for dog health research 13 March 2013 A Vet School student from the University of Bristol has won a prestigious award in recognition of her work to improve the health and wellbeing of dogs.
  • Study finds implementing new ways of charitable giving could see donations triple 28 May 2013 Charities could benefit from an additional 拢40 million per year if a new intervention designed to automatically enroll donors to a scheme that increases their donations by three per cent a year is implemented. This is just one of the findings from a new report, published today by the Cabinet Office, which aimed to explore new and innovative ways of increasing charitable giving.
  • Tracers study reveals rivers beneath the Greenland Ice Sheet 13 March 2013 Meltwater flow beneath the Greenland Ice Sheet has been traced up to 60km from the ice margin by a team of scientists from the Universities of Bristol, Edinburgh, Aberdeen and Aberystwyth. Their work, which represents the first successful attempt to trace meltwater flow through thick ice and over distances of some tens of kilometres on an ice sheet, is published in Nature Geoscience this month.
  • Creatures of influence 6 November 2013 An international research team from the University of Bristol, the Max Planck Institute for Physics of Complex Systems and the US Geological Survey have developed mathematical tools that can estimate which species are most influential in a food web.
  • Findings reveal what factors contribute to outstanding fundraising programmes 10 April 2013 The findings from a year-long study that sought to identify what factors contribute to outstanding fundraising appeals are published this week. The Clayton Burnett-commissioned research, led by academics at the University of Bristol and Indiana University in the US, analysed the leadership, communication and structures behind some of the UK鈥檚 most successful fundraising programmes.
  • New study indicates need for continuous satellite monitoring of ice sheets to better predict sea-level rise 14 July 2013 The length of the satellite record for the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets is currently too short to tell if the recently reported speed-up of ice loss will be sustained in the future or if it results from natural processes, according to a new study led by Dr Bert Wouters from the University of Bristol.
  • Duration of breastfeeding during infancy does not reduce a child鈥檚 risk of being overweight/obese at 11.5 years 12 March 2013 A new study that analysed the effects of an intervention which succeeded in improving the duration and exclusivity of breastfeeding during infancy - involving nearly 14,000 healthy infants in Belarus, Eastern Europe - found that it did not result in a lower risk of overweight or obesity among the children at age 11.5 years. The research, led by academics at the University of Bristol, is published in the Journal of the American Medical Association [JAMA].
  • Lack of fish in diet linked to anxiety in pregnancy 13 July 2013 Women who do not eat fish during pregnancy are more likely to experience high levels of anxiety at that time. Researchers from Children of the 90s at the University of Bristol and the Federal University of Rio de Janiero, Brazil, have found a link between the types of diet eaten, particularly whether this includes fish, and anxiety in pregnancy. They suggest that eating fish during pregnancy could help reduce stress levels.

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