Press releases

Animal bones and Ice Age human tools, ranging from 13,600 to 50,000-years old, have gone on display at the University of Nottingham Museum. The artefacts were discovered at Creswell Crags archeological park on the Derbyshire/Nottinghamshire border and they help us to understand what happened in Europe during the Ice Age.

New facial recognition technology has found that a painting by an unknown artist, which has been subjected to numerous examinations and historical research for more than 40 years, is highly likely to be a Raphael masterpiece.

New research project could help us to tackle antibiotic resistance – one of the biggest health challenges of our time.

A new wrist device to help control Tourette’s Syndrome is a step closer to being commercialised after University of Nottingham spin-out company Neupulse raised almost £1m in additional funding.

Financial geography expert, Professor Sarah Hall, of the University of Nottingham, has been appointed as Senior Fellow at the think tank UK in a Changing Europe (UKICE). Professor Hall’s fellowship will analyse the uneven nature of the economy across UK regions and how they are impacted by significant global economic changes.

Pain management toolkit will be tested in workplaces to help people living with chronic or persistent pain

A Nottingham Professor has been recognised for her research into dark energy in the Universe with a young scientist award from the Blavatnik Family Foundation and the New York Academy of Sciences.

A new research project has been awarded over £6m to develop a toolkit to allow 3D printed medicines to be manufactured effectively bringing innovations like biological personalised pills and ‘living plasters’ closer to commercial production.

A Nottingham researcher has received a prestigious international award for her ground-breaking research into male-centric representations of maternity and women’s bodies and souls in early Christian and Jewish scriptures.

The Economic Statistics Centre of Excellence (ESCoE) has announced its work programme after its funding was extended for a further five years by the Office for National Statistics (ONS).