The Royal Astronomical Society's (RAS) National Astronomy Meeting 2025 connects diverse communities ranging from professional ...

The UK Government has promised to stop using hotels to house asylum seekers by 2029. Professor Jonathan Darling from our ...

In July's edition of our community newsletter we mark a major sustainability milestone, celebrate graduation season, and ...

Sixty years of world-leading education, research, and impact was celebrated as our Business School held an anniversary ...

Older people in the North of England are more likely to be poorer, less healthy, physically inactive, lonely, and in poorer ...

Almost a thousand of the world’s top space scientists will visit Durham University next week (7 to 11 July) as we host the UK’s National Astronomy Meeting (NAM) 2025. NAM is the flagship annual event ...

The European Research Council (ERC) is the premier European funding organisation for frontier research. UK-based researchers ...

Scientists from our top-rated Physics department are playing a major role in the world’s most ambitious space project, the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST), led by the Vera C. Rubin Observatory.

Such a mini-halo consists of highly energetic charged particles in the vacuum between galaxies in a cluster, which together emanate radio waves which we can detect from Earth. The discovery shows that ...

The languages of the past can tell us more about human history than we might have thought. As a specialist in the ancient languages of Italy, Katherine McDonald uses linguistic detective work to ...

Researchers led by Professor Simon Cornish are working at the forefront of quantum physics, using cutting-edge techniques to explore the fundamental laws of nature.

Founded in 1985, the Coimbra Group is an association of long-established European multi-disciplinary universities of high international standard and includes ourselves. The Group met in Durham in ...