Mr McDonald, who is Labour MP for Stockton North and was appointed Minister for Industry in the Department for Energy ...

Our scientists are investigating how a UK-led team could design and build a core instrument for a flagship NASA mission to search for life on distant planets. The Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) ...

Durham graduate and Team GB rower Lauren Irwin recently returned to her college to open a new student rowing facility. Lauren ...

A leader who repeatedly ran for president, he never won – in part due to the 2007 election being manipulated in favour of ...

Installed on the UK-built VISTA telescope at the European Southern Observatory’s site in Chile, 4MOST is an exciting new ...

The Summit attracts university leaders from all over the world. It was being held in the Middle East for the first time, in ...

The Church of England must do more to create a culture in which spiritual authority is handled safely, according to a new report from Durham University. Researchers listened to the experiences of ...

Scientists from our top-rated Physics department have played a crucial role in verifying the quality of specialist materials destined for the magnets of ITER. ITER is the world’s largest and most ...

Scientists from our Computer Science department have created a new system that allows groups of drones to fly together more quickly and safely than ever before. The technology, called T-STAR, gives ...

Scientists have shed fresh light on how human hands and minds evolved together, finding that longer thumbs in primates means bigger brains. Researchers studied 94 different primate species, including ...

It is expected that most Creative Writing PhDs at Durham will have a 50:50 weighting between a creative portfolio and a literary-critical dissertation; however, this ratio is negotiable as particular ...

New research is challenging long-standing assumptions about autism and physical activity, offering fresh insights into the experiences of autistic adults. It found a lack of understanding and ...