Press releases

Parents or carers of pre-school children (under 6 years old) and healthcare professionals in the East Midlands are needed for a study about their experiences of vaccination.

Experts at the University of Nottingham have worked with people with single-sided deafness (SSD), to find out what effects from the condition matter to them the most, which in turn, will help towards developing more effective treatments for the condition.

A scientist from the University of Nottingham is part of an expedition travelling to the Antarctic to measure the effects of climate change in the Weddell Sea.

Renewable energy that feeds into the main power grid could destabilise the system and potentially cause power failures according to a new study.

Research into new sustainable ways to decontaminate plastic packaging for recycling has been given a boost with funding from UK Research and Innovation’s (UKRI) Smart Sustainable Plastic Packaging (SSPP) Challenge.

Experts from the University of Nottingham have developed a protocol for clinicians around the world, which will help to close the gap between diagnosis and treatment of childhood cancer, and could increase the chance of survival from the disease.

Scientists in the UK and Cuba are urging members of the public to vote for the ‘world’s most beautiful snail’, in an international competition to unravel its DNA blueprint – thus unlocking the key to its beauty.

Finding out the secrets of the amazing colour changing octopus, getting up close to an electric racing car, checking out the natural history museum in Wollaton Hall and making a sweet cannon are just some of the interactive activities on offer for budding scientists at this year’s Science in the Park event.

Scientists in Nottingham have been awarded £462,462 for the development of a vaccine for the Zika virus from £10m of UK Aid funding for research into vaccines to protect the world from deadly diseases.

A new study examining the chemical make-up of iron artefacts from the Viking age aims to uncover new insights into where they came from that could reveal previously unknown information about historic events.