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Sex and death: how evolutionary biology can lead to protecting wildlife

From navigating avian romance to engaging local communities, Professor Tamás Székely’s research group aims to protect wildlife and preserve biodiversity.

Stack and draw: how plain glass rods turn into the fibre optics of the future

From telecoms to healthcare, fibre optics are an essential tool in photonics research. But how are they made, and what exactly do they do?

Joining the hunt for degradable polymers

With plastic pollution among our most urgent environmental issues, creating easily degradable polymers is one of the hottest topics in materials chemistry.

Using dust clouds and geometry to reveal the secrets of space

With intergalactic distances reaching many thousands of lightyears, researchers turn to geometry to model galaxies and learn more about their evolution.

How ‘flower power’ helped plants survive the extinction that killed the dinosaurs

New research from the Milner Centre for Evolution shows how flowering plants survived one of the biggest mass extinction events in history.

The study of Stokes waves: Understanding the maths behind waves in nature

Despite their simple appearance, the maths behind Stokes waves is complex. Researchers from the Department of Mathematical Sciences set out to learn more.

Biotechnology Facility

A multi-user facility providing protein expression and purification services to researchers across the University and beyond.

Optical Fibre Fabrication Facility

Find out about how we use our optical fibre fabrication facility to make speciality optical fibre and how you can access the facility for your own work.

This GW4 facility is located in Bristol and provides access to cryo-microscopy and analysis tools to study molecular processes responsible for cell function.