“I create artificial stars with lasers.”

New research has found the successful end to the spread of the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) in West Africa was due to a coordinated response and the accepted traditional measures of control used in past outbreaks.

“Before you go travelling next time, make sure you come to me for some tips.”

Dr Maja Adamska is flipping through a textbook, and stops to show a photo of what looks like a lumpy blob.

A team of international scientists has quantified the threat that climate change poses to nine staple food crops in sub-Saharan Africa and outlined actions and timelines needed to adapt to head off the risk of crop and food shortages.

The University has used International Women's Day to strengthen its commitment to gender equity.

A culture that is overtly anti-sexist can still implicitly associate science with masculinism, according to CPAS academic Lindy Orthia and anthropologist Rachel Morgain.

Scientists developing fusion energy experiments have solved a puzzle of why their million-degree heating beams sometimes fail, and instead destabilise the fusion experiments before energy is generated.