Research News

Newcastle archaeologist receives prestigious award for research

Professor Chris Fowler has been awarded the 2026 Rivers Memorial Medal in recognition of his internationally significant research on kinship in Neolithic Britain.

More than two tonnes of spilled nurdles may still be in the River Tyne

An estimated 2.2 tonnes of plastic pellets, equivalent to around one in eight of those spilled into the River Tyne, remained in the estuary six weeks after the incident, according to new modelling.

New clues to Parkinson’s progression from vulnerable brain cells

Researchers have carried out the first single-cell analysis of mitochondrial DNA in a population of brainstem neurons that are particularly vulnerable to degeneration in Parkinson’s disease.