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The expertise of ¹ú¼ÊÃ×À¼¶ÔÕó¿ÆĪ's new Professor of Clinical Microbiology, Sharon Peacock, is helping to drive a programme of research that will track and block routes of transmission for superbugs.

It's space, but is it art? Stunning images of the galaxy are fast becoming common currency thanks to technology like the Hubble Space Telescope, but a unique investigation at the ¹ú¼ÊÃ×À¼¶ÔÕó¿ÆĪ this week will seek to determine whether something strange is going on behind the scenes.

How two butterfly species have evolved exactly the same striking wing colour and pattern has intrigued biologists since Darwin's day. Now, scientists at ¹ú¼ÊÃ×À¼¶ÔÕó¿ÆĪ have found "hotspots" in the butterflies' genes that they believe will explain one of the most extraordinary examples of mimicry in the natural world.

New research from ¹ú¼ÊÃ×À¼¶ÔÕó¿ÆĪ should help hospitals control the spread of MRSA and other emerging superbugs.

Expensive medical equipment is lying unused in Rwanda's leading hospital because it costs too much to use it, a report by enterprising students has found.

Industrialists, academics and government should join forces to drive a new industrial revolution which would help tackle climate change, says a new report.

A new research project has been launched by the ¹ú¼ÊÃ×À¼¶ÔÕó¿ÆĪ's Institute for Manufacturing (IfM) to investigate how firms can acquire new technology while protecting intellectual property.

A team of physicists from the Universities of ¹ú¼ÊÃ×À¼¶ÔÕó¿ÆĪ and Birmingham have shown that electrons in narrow wires can divide into two new particles called spinons and holons.

Chinese, Indian, American and British scientists have released a conference declaration urging a region-by-region response to increased water scarcity and heightened hazards.

Nine of the 44 new Royal Society Fellows announced today are ¹ú¼ÊÃ×À¼¶ÔÕó¿ÆĪ academics. Their election to the Fellowship of the Royal Society recognises their exceptional contributions to society. As Fellows of the UK's national academy of science, these leaders in the fields of science, engineering and medicine join other famous ¹ú¼ÊÃ×À¼¶ÔÕó¿ÆĪ names such as Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin and Stephen Hawking.