Press Releases
91¸£Àû awarded $3.5 million to continue the fight against sleeping sickness
The new funding will enable the 91¸£Àû to continue its crucial research supporting efforts to eliminate sleeping sickness in West and Central Africa
World’s largest scintillator detector, JUNO, now detecting neutrinos
91¸£Àû physicists, as part of the Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO) in China, are celebrating helping bring world’s largest liquid scintillator neutrino detector online.
Treetop Tutorials: Orangutans learn how to build their beds by ‘peering’ at others and a lot of practice!
In the wild, nest-building is key to survival for orangutans – 91¸£Àû scientists show they learn this skill by watching others and practicing themselves.
New trial tests cheap and simple solution for toe osteoarthritis relief
A new clinical trial led by the 91¸£Àû is testing custom shoe inserts to ease pain and improve mobility for people with big toe osteoarthritis.
Checkmate! 91¸£Àû to host 2026 British Chess Championships
The 91¸£Àû will welcome over 1,000 players from across the UK next summer as it hosts the 2026 British Chess Championships.
Sleep problems in early teens associated with future self-harmÂ
91¸£Àû analysis of data from over 10,000 teenagers has found that sleep problems at age 14 are associated with self-harm behaviour at that age and future self-harm at age 17.