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Sep 18, 2013

University of Southampton launches first MOOC to engage global learners

The University of Southampton today (18 September) launches its first Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), which will enable anyone to study online, f...
Sep 10, 2013

Study reveals benefits of wishes on seriously ill children and their parents

New research has shown that schemes that grant children with a life threatening illness a special wish have a positive impact on their and their famil...
Sep 09, 2013

Imaging for life: new imaging tools to aid regenerative medicine projects

Scientists at the University of Southampton are to study the 3D architecture of healthy human tissues down to the nanometre scale (one billionth of a ...
Sep 05, 2013

Understanding the mechanics of cells to provide new medical breakthroughs

University of Southampton researchers are at the forefront of research into mechanobiology, an emerging field of science combining biology and enginee...
Aug 23, 2013

Registration to Inaugural WUN Global China Conference is Now Open!

The Inaugural WUN Global China Conference "Family Transition, Ageing, and Social Security in China" will be held at The Chinese University of Hong Ko...
Aug 20, 2013

“Regret-free” approaches for adapting agriculture to climate change

A new study, from the CGIAR research programme on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS), which involves researchers from the Universit...
Aug 20, 2013

Climate forecasts shown to warn of crop failures

A new study has showed that in about one-third of global cropland, temperature and soil moisture has a strong relationship to the yield of wheat and r...
Aug 12, 2013

Scientists develop ground-breaking new method of ‘starving’ cancer cells

A University of Southampton Professor, in collaboration with colleagues at the BC Cancer Agency Research Centre, have discovered a novel way of killin...
Aug 10, 2013

Funding boost to help tackle major health challenges in the South

Health researchers from Southampton have been given £9million to help them tackle some of the South’s most pressing health problems....