Professor Kathy Pain explores how the town once famed for ‘beer, biscuits and bulbs’ became a hub for high tech industry and explains how smarter town planning could secure its…Read More >
Prizes awarded to outstanding early career researchers
Heart disease, the carbon footprint of city-dwellers’ food and recovery from sickness in the sixteenth century were among the research topics that won prizes for Reading early career researchers last…Read More >
Taking Reading research to Westminster
Rachel Newton was one of two Reading undergraduates to take their research to Westminster last week for the annual Posters in Parliament event. Here she tells us about spending her…Read More >
British Science Week round-up
University of Reading scientists will be out and about throughout British Science Week (9 -16 March) telling the public about their research and inspiring the next generation of researchers. Here…Read More >
‘Too many elephants’ in Africa? Here’s how peaceful coexistence with human communities can help
The human population in Africa is booming, squeezing elephants into ever smaller and more isolated pockets of land. In a new post for The Conversation, conservation biologist Vicky Boult explains…Read More >
How did mammals (and maybe dinosaurs) get so big?
Evolving the ability to walk on tiptoes helped mammals become the chunkiest animals on the planet, according to new research by evolutionary biologist Dr Manabu Sakamoto. But could it also…Read More >
Space Blitz: discovering the hidden impacts of WWII bombing raids
The controversial British bombing raids on Dresden – known as ‘Operation Thunderclap’ – took place 73 years ago this month. During the raids, British bombers dropped thousands of tons of…Read More >
How speaking another language is good for your brain
Speaking more than one language can change the physical structure of your brain. How and why does this happen, and what implications might this have across our lifetimes from a…Read More >
1.5 degree limit won’t save the earth’s ‘third pole’
Even if we limit global warming to 1.5 degrees it will not be enough to prevent melting of the world’s third largest store of ice, in the Himalayas – and…Read More >