Our engineering and energy researchers are sharing in £11.5m to turn sewage sludge into sustainable fuels for transport and ...

The mass of ice lost from these ice sheets has quadrupled since the 1990s and they are currently losing around 370 billion tonnes of ice per year. According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate ...

The Universities for North East England partnership could be a blueprint for the rest of the UK, an MP has told an event in ...

Sunday’s inauguration mass will begin with prayers at the tomb of St. Peter – the first pope – which is located directly ...

Professor Anna Leone is a leading authority on North African archaeology and heritage protection. Her work is driven by her fascination with North Africa and for understanding societal transitions and ...

The Woman of the North Summit was held at The Waterside building, part of our Business School, on Wednesday 7 May, and ...

Our installed solar panel capacity has reached 1 MW this year – a major milestone in our continued efforts to cut emissions and become a more sustainable institution.

A new study led by our Earth Sciences department has made a surprising discovery about a mysterious fossil from the Cambrian period — over 500 million years ago.

Clean hydrogen could be key to a greener future and there is a lot if it right beneath our feet in the Earth’s crust. The trick is knowing exactly where it is and in which conditions it survives. For ...

The Gruber Foundation Cosmology Prize honours leading cosmologists, astronomers and physicists who are advancing our understanding of the Universe. It is co-sponsored by the International Astronomical ...

Among the big winners of a university being in a neighbourhood must be the neighbourhood itself. In her monthly column, our Vice-Chancellor Professor Karen O’Brien reflects on Durham University’s ...

Researchers have discovered that ultra-fast wind surrounding a supermassive black hole is not smooth and continuous as previously assumed, but instead resembles a rapid-fire stream of gas ‘bullets’.