News

1871 results for 'press statements'

A retinal scan

AI can identify heart disease from an eye scan

Published
25 January 2022
Categories
Global
Science
Health
Technology

Scientists have developed an artificial intelligence system that can analyse eye scans taken during a routine visit to an optician or eye clinic and identify patients at a high risk of a heart attack.

Children in school uniform on a climbing frame

Tracking a city’s young people as they come of age

Published
20 January 2022
Categories
Working with our region
Health
Science

Researchers have secured £7 million to fund the next stage of the pioneering Born in Bradford study into the health and wellbeing of the city’s young people.

A cow in a field with blue sky and white clouds

A better understanding of foot-and-mouth disease

Published
17 January 2022
Categories
Science

The imaging of vanishingly tiny structures created by the foot-and-mouth disease virus could one day help scientists develop new treatments for infected animals. 

The skyline over Dhaka, Bangladesh

Unintended consequences of mask mandates

Published
10 January 2022
Categories
Science
Coronavirus
Global

Governments need to be careful about the messaging around compulsory mask wearing to ensure the policy is fully effective, say researchers.

The earth as seen from space

Study reveals hostile conditions on Earth as life evolved

Published
5 January 2022
Categories
Global
Science

During long portions of the past 2.4 billion years, the Earth may have been more inhospitable to life than scientists previously thought, according to new computer simulations.

Professor Cath Noakes with a member of the audience  doing an experiment

COVID-19 ‘has reshaped science forever’

Published
20 December 2021
Categories
Science
Coronavirus
Health

Following in a long line of eminent scientists and engineers, Professor Cath Noakes will stand in the Royal Institution’s iconic auditorium and explain the big ideas reshaping society.