Scientists from the University of Bristol in England believe that microbes living under ice sheets in Antarctica and Greenland could be emitting large quantities of the greenhouse gas methane. "It could mean that as ice sheets melt ...

In this week’s Chemistry in its element podcast, Tim Harrison from the University of Bristol talks about the Jekyll and Hyde element: chlorine    

The research, led by Andrew Whitelaw, Professor of Neonatal Medicine at the University of Bristol, and Ian Pople, paediatric neurosurgeon at North Bristol NHS Trust, has shown that, after a haemorrhage, the fluid inside the ventricl...

Snowball Earth, Image Credit NASA/University of Bristol.Tim Lambert (Deltoid) debated Viscount Monckton on Friday 12 February, (Charles Darwin's Birthday). The debate can be seen here, audio here, slides here and a transcript and so...

A new model developed at the University of Bristol (England) shows that changes in the carbonate chemistry of the deep ocean may exceed anything seen in the past 65 million year, predicting much higher rates of environmental change ...

People with cats as pets are generally smarter and better educated than dog owners, it has been revealed.Researchers from the University of Bristol looked at the 20.8 million dog and cat owners in the UK to identify their various ch...

Testing has begun on a device that can sniff out the presence of disease by smell, thanks to a 1.3 million pound award from the Wellcome Trust. OdoReader, developed by Chris Probert from the University of Bristol and Norman Ratcliff...

Scientists have, for the first time, been able to identify the colour of feathers on a dinosaur… and it was ginger. Palaeontologists from the University of Bristol say the Sinosauropteryx - a fast running, dog-sized meat-eater which...

Remains of one of the earliest members of the English royal family may have been unearthed in a German cathedral, a Bristol University research team says.They believe a near-complete female skeleton, aged 30 to 40, found wrapped in ...

Early queen’s skeleton ‘found in German cathedral’ Remains of one of the earliest members of the English royal family may have been unearthed in a German cathedral, a Bristol University research team says. They believe a near-comple...

A scientist from the University of Bristol in England says he's uncovered evidence at a Spanish excavation that proves Neanderthals wore jewelry and makeup. Meanwhile visitors to any mall in New Jersey can see that they still do....

Reader warning: the following article may hurt your brain. Scientists in Britain have pulled off an amazing trick: they’ve tied light into a knot. The project was led by Dr Mark Dennis of the University of Bristol. He explained that...

The Bristol Herald Courier, which covers Bristol Tennessee and Virginia, plus the nearby cities of Johnson City and Jonesborough, TN, had a piece last Monday about the changing of the guard at East Tennessee State University’s Blueg...

From New Scientist: Designing highways the slime mould way ... Jeff Jones and Andrew Adamatzky, specialists in unconventional computing at the University of the West of England in Bristol, wondered if biology could provide an altern...

Recently at Discovery News I told you about Neanderthal-made shell jewelry that suggests these hominids were as smart and creative as modern humans were at the time the jewelry was made, 50,000 years ago.University of Bristol archae...

It seems we have all been guilty of defaming Neanderthal man. Research by a team based at the University of Bristol suggests that, far from being a lumbering, witless no-hoper, he was capable, 50,000 years ago, of producing forms of...

The widespread view of Neanderthals as cognitively inferior to early modern humans is challenged by new research from the University of Bristol published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Professor João Zilhão an...

The widespread view of Neanderthals as cognitively inferior to early modern humans is challenged by new research from the University of Bristol published today in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.Professor João Zilhão...

Use of body ornamentation shows Neanderthal mind capable of advanced thought The widespread view of Neanderthals as cognitively inferior to early modern humans is challenged by new research from the University of Bristol published t...

So much for global warming.