Teacher productivity is a large concern for the current coalition government. A new study, published today [22 August] investigated the relationship between centralised pay setting of teachers’ ...
Aug 22, 2012
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(Phys.org) -- A highly efficient method for making prostaglandins -- natural, hormone-like chemicals that have pharmaceutical applications -- is reported by University of Bristol scientists this week in Nature. Some synthe ...
Aug 15, 2012
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Proteins do not need to be surrounded by water to carry out their vital biological functions, according to scientists from the Institut de Biologie Structurale (IBS) in Grenoble, the University of Bristol, the Australian ...
Aug 02, 2012
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(Phys.org) -- Online fundraising is a major source of income for many charities. A new study has looked at the extent to which people giving in this way are influenced by how much other people have given on ...
Jul 19, 2012
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(Phys.org) -- High-tech technology, traditionally usually used to design racing cars and aeroplanes, has helped researchers to understand how plant-eating dinosaurs fed 150 million years ago.
Jul 16, 2012
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Diagnosis is key to the control and prevention of endemic livestock diseases in developing regions. New research has found the use of a low-cost diagnostic decision support tool could lead to the improvement in clinical practice ...
Jul 12, 2012
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The cause of rapid sea level rise in the past has been found by scientists at the University of Bristol using climate and ice sheet models.
Jul 11, 2012
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(Phys.org) -- Modern cats diverged in skull shape from their sabre-toothed ancestors early in their evolutionary history and then followed separate evolutionary trajectories, according to new research from ...
Jul 10, 2012
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(Phys.org) -- A team from the University of Bristol’s Centre for Quantum Photonics (CQP) has experimentally demonstrated how to use Berry’s phase to accurately control quantum interference between different photons.
Jul 05, 2012
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Researchers at the University of Bristol with collaborators from ETH-Zurich have shown that the rate of condensation of water on organic aerosol particles in the atmosphere can be very slow, taking many hours ...
Jul 02, 2012
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A reindeer engraved on the wall of a cave in South Wales has been found to date from at least 14,505 years ago – making it the oldest known rock art in the British Isles.
Jun 29, 2012
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A study by the University of Bristol's School of Veterinary Sciences has been used to launch an RSPCA campaign called ‘Hay Fever,’ to highlight the fact many owners do not know what food is best ...
Jun 26, 2012
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(Phys.org) -- Scientists would like to believe that the popularity of new theories depends entirely on their scientific value, in terms of novelty, importance and technical correctness. But the Bristol study, published in ...
Jun 25, 2012
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(Phys.org) -- Earlier this year, a team of scientists, led by Professor Julian Eastoe in the University of Bristol’s School of Chemistry, announced they had created a liquid surfactant (soap) that could be moved by a magnet. ...
Jun 22, 2012
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The first unequivocal evidence that humans in prehistoric Saharan Africa used cattle for their milk nearly 7,000 years ago is described in research by an international team of scientists, led by the University ...
Jun 20, 2012
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