Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One app.

Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles. One news app.

The Latest Breaking News from UKRI

UK joins mission to hunt for the universe’s origins

Six UK universities will deliver a major upgrade to the cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiment known as Simons Observatory.

The Independent UK

Haacaaluu Hundeesaa: sublime Ethiopian singer who inspired Oromo struggle protesters

I speak to myself whispering Our situation has defied resolution, our misery isn’t improving We are in despair and idling, that is why I am whispering. So sings Haacaaluu Hundeessaa to his people, the Oromo, in the song Waa’ee Keenya (Our struggle), calling on them to take action against centuries…

The Conversation

Climate change will cause more African children to die from hot weather

Climate change has already increased global temperatures, greatly increasing extremes. This will continue unless greenhouse gas emissions are reduced to “net-zero”. The 1.5°C target of the Paris Agreement requires emissions reductions of around 50% in the next 10 years.

The Conversation

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Guaranteed research funding is still available in the UK

Letter: Prof Christopher Smith of UK Research and Innovation responds to an article on grants being lost post-Brexit, and offers some reassurance

The Guardian - UK

Opinion: How Britain’s industrial heartlands can forge a greener future

UK decarbonisation champion and director of Industrial Decarbonisation Research and Innovation Centre, Professor Mercedes Maroto-Valer, writes for Business Live.

Birmingham Post

PhD students told to consider selling Avon products to make ends meet

‘Appalling’ advice on coping with the cost of living crisis from prestigious agency provokes anger among researchers

The Guardian - UK

Medicine transporting drone project lands £10 million funding

Consortium will now carry out live flight trials of the aircraft in Scotland

Insider UK

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

UK graduate students call for more support as cost of living crisis bites

Graduates say this year’s 2.9% rise in student stipends is insufficient and could push them into poverty

The Guardian - UK

The inside story of Recovery: how the world’s largest COVID-19 trial transformed treatment – and what it could do for other diseases

Guilherme – June 16, 2020. Evening TV news shows across the world were suddenly opening with the result of our research, and rightly so. Dexamethasone was the first drug to be shown to save the lives of people infected with COVID-19. To a young researcher like me, that day felt…

The Conversation

Brexit row could prompt exodus of senior scientists from UK

At least 16 recipients of prestigious ERC grants making plans to reject UK offer and move their labs abroad

The Guardian - UK

Take Off: Brit Uni With Own Runway Gets $3.8 M To Develop Low Carbon Planes

A British University that started life as an aircraft development college and is the only European university with its own airport is heading back to its roots after getting a 3.1 million pounds ($3.8 million) investment to carry out sustainable aviation research.

Zenger

First South West green hydrogen plant announced in net zero drive

The £2.5m facility at the Bristol and Bath Science Park will form the basis of a regional hub for green growth with more than 30 cross-sector partners

Birmingham Post

Leading Welsh academic Richard Wyn Jones attacks Welsh Government funding for universities

Cardiff University Professor Richard Wyn Jones said that Welsh Government's funding decisions had been 'disastrous'

Wales Online

MPs complain over Westminster response to Scottish university report

Government rejects Scottish representation in UKRI and widening the Turing Scheme

Insider UK

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

The Conversation

Conger ice shelf has collapsed: what you need to know, according to experts

East Antarctica’s Conger ice shelf – a floating platform the size of Rome – broke off the continent on March 15, 2022. Since the beginning of satellite observations in the 1970s, the tip of the shelf had been disintegrating into icebergs in a series of what glaciologists call calving events.

1 2 3 4

People

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

UK Research and Innovation

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.