Financial institutions need a dedicated regulatory framework for the use of artificial intelligence (AI) to reduce risks and better protect consumers, according to new research from Durham University Business School.

An international team of astronomers, including researchers from our Department of Physics, has observed a seemingly dormant supermassive black hole reawaken.

Our astronomers are part of an international team which has discovered a new object – a mash-up of a black hole and an enormous star.

Professor Ryan Cooke, from our Department of Physics, has been awarded a £5.6m Royal Society fellowship to investigate the first moments after the Big Bang.

School pupils helped develop and test promising new compounds that could improve the effectiveness of existing tuberculosis (TB) treatments as part of a unique research project.

Professor Pippa Petts, from our Department of Physics, has been awarded a prestigious National Teaching Fellowship in recognition of her outstanding contribution to teaching and learning.

We are part of a pioneering new £5 million programme that aims to transform understanding of neurodiversity and human difference.