Caption: Professor Karen O'Brien, Vice-Chancellor and Warden of Durham University, and Paul Ramsbottom OBE, Wolfson ...

Durham Global Week 2025 will take place from Saturday 1 – Sunday 9 March 2025. All staff and students are encouraged to get involved, by submitting proposals for events to be part of the programme.

We’ve launched a new £5m research centre to support North East England’s growing space industry and lead on the sustainable ...

Climate change is one of the biggest threats facing the world today. In her monthly column, our Vice-Chancellor Karen O'Brien explores how Durham University is both pioneering research to understand ...

In a new study, scientists from our top-rated Biosciences department joined forces with researchers from Jagiellonian University (Poland), and the John Innes Centre to reveal how a bacterial enzyme ...

General Relativity is one of the most elegant and profound theories in Physics. That the Universe seems to conform to its ...

The ethical and governance review co-authored by Professor Cave concludes that a phased approach is needed – ‘soft’ governance implementing the UK SCBEM Code of Practice, as a stepping stone to ‘hard’ ...

The North East Space Communications Accelerator (NESCA) will launch in 2025. It is an exciting new collaboration designed to ...

Interneurons work a bit like the brain's traffic controllers where they regulate the firing of other brain cells, acting like a sophisticated brake system. This control is critical because when ...

Meet our COP29 delegates and learn about their areas of specialism or visit our COP29 webpages for more information on our steering committee. During the Conference of Parties 2024, our delegates ...

To mark DDF’s half-century milestone, Durham Student Theatre would love to gather and celebrate the Festival’s 50-year history as experienced by its alumni. If you have been involved in DDF previously ...

If you open the Weather app on your phone, you may have noticed that the information it includes has evolved over time. Air quality measures are now built in, along with pressure metrics. Warnings ...