Our engineering and energy researchers are sharing in £11.5m to turn sewage sludge into sustainable fuels for transport and ...

The North of England’s eight research-intensive universities generated £18.8 billion in economic impact for the UK, a new report shows. Leading consultancy London Economics assessed the impact of the ...

The mass of ice lost from these ice sheets has quadrupled since the 1990s and they are currently losing around 370 billion tonnes of ice per year. According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate ...

Professor Anna Leone is a leading authority on North African archaeology and heritage protection. Her work is driven by her fascination with North Africa and for understanding societal transitions and ...

Congratulations to Professor Ryan Cooke from our Department of Physics who is the joint recipient of the 2025 Gruber Foundation Cosmology Prize. Ryan has been awarded the prize together with his ...

Among the big winners of a university being in a neighbourhood must be the neighbourhood itself. In her monthly column, our Vice-Chancellor Professor Karen O’Brien reflects on Durham University’s ...

A service rich in symbolism, Leo XIV’s inauguration mass this Sunday (18 May) will mark the start of what is likely to be a highly consequential papacy. Dr William Crozier, Duns Scotus Assistant ...

Researchers have discovered that ultra-fast wind surrounding a supermassive black hole is not smooth and continuous as previously assumed, but instead resembles a rapid-fire stream of gas ‘bullets’.

Our installed solar panel capacity has reached 1 MW this year – a major milestone in our continued efforts to cut emissions and become a more sustainable institution. Solar panels are installed on ...