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 ...

A new exhibition ‘Knitted Together: The Korean Lives and Legacies of Richard and Joan Rutt’, focusing on the lives of two of the main donors to the Oriental Museum’s Korean collection, is now on ...

Three of our scholars have been selected for the prestigious Wellcome Award, offering a combined £1,660,000 to work toward improving wellbeing through scientific research. If you open the Weather app ...

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 ...

Our annual telephone appeal will run from 4 – 24 November for the Durham Future Fund. The campaign calls are also a fantastic opportunity for our student callers to gain valuable advice and ...

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, ...

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

Researchers from our top-rated Psychology department have discovered that social bonding behaviours in chimpanzees, like grooming and play, can spread through groups much like contagious yawns or ...

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.