Durham is home to world-leading research into how we can work with nature to find ways to address the climate crisis.

Did you know that methane released by animals such as cows accounts for about 50 per cent of agricultural greenhouse gas emissions, and that one third of this is released indoors, in barns and sheds?

Durham has become the first UK University to form a collaboration with social purpose driven esports org LDN UTD. Working with the leading esports organisation, the partnership will bring the benefits of esports to students as well as the wider Durham community.

White dwarfs are what most stars become after burning off the hydrogen that fuels them. Now our astronomers have seen one of these galactic objects switching on and off for the first time.

We’re proud to be a global university, with staff and students from over 130 countries and an alumni network spanning the world.

Undergraduate students from our Biosciences Department have joined forces with some of our leading academics and also colleagues from Northumbria and Liverpool Universities to identify two defence systems that protect bacteria from viruses.

We’re working on a new infrared light therapy that might have the potential to help people with dementia.

A research team has refined its measurements of a particle that could be “key” to understanding the early universe.

Did you know we have an international Centre for the study of Spanish and Latin American art?

Antony Long introduces himself as Acting Vice-Chancellor and provides an update on Michaelmas term as teaching begins.

We’ve received a £1million donation towards a major scholarships programme helping students from low-income backgrounds in North East England to study at Durham.

Have you ever wondered what elections during the 19th Century were really like?