Jan 22, 2014
How the purple and pink sunscreens of reef corals work
New research by the University of Southampton has found a mechanism as to how corals use their pink and purple hues as sunscreen to protect them again...
Jan 20, 2014
Here comes the sun to lower your blood pressure
Research carried out at the Universities of Southampton and Edinburgh shows that sunlight alters levels of the small messenger molecule, nitric oxide ...
Jan 16, 2014
New research to support the huge potential of tidal power
New research from a global group of scientists and engineers, including from the University of Southampton, has been published in a special issue jour...
Jan 14, 2014
Tough limits on global greenhouse gas emissions could reduce some climate change damage by two-thirds
Tough limits on global emissions of greenhouse gases could avoid between 20 and 65 per cent of the damaging effects of climate change by 2100, accordi...
Jan 09, 2014
Major funding boost to train the engineers and scientists of tomorrow
Postgraduate training at the University of Southampton in engineering and scientific fields, important to the UK’s economy, has received a major fun...
Jan 02, 2014
Jellyfish experts show that increased blooms are a consequence of periodic global fluctuations
Scientists have cast doubt on the widely held perception that there has been a global increase in jellyfish.The results of the study, which includes l...
Dec 23, 2013
More oesophageal cancer patients benefit from pre-op chemo than previously thought
Researchers from the University of Southampton looked at the records of over 200 patients** with a type of oesophageal cancer known as adenocarcinoma ...
Dec 12, 2013
Arctic climate research receives major funding boost
What will happen to the Greenland Ice Sheet if the Arctic sea ice covers disappears? To answer this question, researchers at the University of Bergen ...
Dec 12, 2013
Antarctic fjords are diversity hotspots in a rapidly warming region
The team, led by Dr Laura Grange, a researcher at University of Southampton, and Professor Craig Smith of University of Hawai’i at Mānoa, document ...
