Construction has started on a building which could transform the way we live.

published on: 2 March 2021

However, UK supermarkets and online retailers made an additional £4 billion each, according to econometric models.

published on: 22 February 2021

Digital platforms could enable monitoring of mental health in real-time, say researchers.

published on: 16 February 2021

The Active Living Infrastructure: Controlled Environment (ALICE) research consortium has successfully completed and created a prototype that could both revolutionise housing and replace fossil fuels.

published on: 9 February 2021

Refugee midwives are creating new digital training toolkits using Virtual Reality and smartphones to expand vital maternal care in Kenya’s Dadaab refugee camps.

published on: 4 February 2021

Austerity-style reductions to welfare benefits have detrimental effects on mental health, particularly for more vulnerable groups in society who are also most affected by the Covid-19 pandemic.

published on: 2 February 2021

A free to use web app developed by Newcastle University experts will help people learn language and overcome cultural barriers.

published on: 1 February 2021

Increases in life expectancy in the UK and elsewhere had slowed even before 2016 – and COVID-19 is expected to further eliminate any gains, Newcastle University studies show.

published on: 1 February 2021

Efforts to understand when corals reproduce have been given a boost thanks to a new resource that gives scientists open access to more than forty years’ worth of information about coral spawning.

published on: 29 January 2021

New research at Newcastle University will study how certain genes could lead to heart blood vessel defects in babies.

published on: 27 January 2021

Experts at Newcastle University will help uncover the histories of 140,000 miles of countryside rights of way as part of a major new project.

published on: 26 January 2021

Scientists have identified that the evolutionary development of human and primate brains may have been similar for communication and memory.

published on: 25 January 2021

Dr Alastair Cole directs Iorram (Boat Song).

published on: 19 January 2021

University colleagues have been recognised in the Queen's New Year's Honours.

published on: 31 December 2020

Scientists urge that a clear, unambiguous goal for preventing human-induced species extinctions and stabilising populations must be front and centre in the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework.

published on: 10 December 2020

Northern England, which was worst hit by the first wave of coronavirus, also suffered more than the South during the Spanish flu outbreak more than 100 years ago, according to new research.

published on: 7 December 2020

Writing for The Conversation, Professor Abigail Marks and colleagues discuss their research which highlighted that most people want to get back to the office, but not for the full week.

published on: 4 December 2020

Two proteins have been identified which have great potential as a new blood test for the severity of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD).

published on: 2 December 2020

A project led by Newcastle University is helping to understand how the shift to full-time home-based working is impacting the relationship between work and home life.

published on: 2 December 2020

Health visitors across England are to be trained to use a toolkit which can identify very young children with speech, language and communication problems.

published on: 1 December 2020

Newcastle University and Swiss train-builder, Stadler, have formally agreed to work together on a range of initiatives, signing a ‘memorandum of understanding’ (MoU) to endorse their partnership.

published on: 26 November 2020

Newcastle University is co-leading an international project to better understand how changes in poultry production and consumption are affecting the rise in antimicrobial resistance (AMR).

published on: 20 November 2020

Newcastle has been named a global 'climate leader' for its efforts to become carbon neutral by 2030.

published on: 18 November 2020

Writing for The Conversation, Professor James Law discusses developmental language disorder (DLD), one of the most common disorders affecting children but which is relatively unknown.

published on: 17 November 2020

An international team involving geographers at Newcastle University is to look at the impact of COVID-19 on illegal sand mining in the Vietnamese Mekong delta.

published on: 5 November 2020