A major new digital mapping project could help protect some of the world's most important heritage sites from the growing threat of climate change.

Research involving our School of Education has found AI chatbots, such as ChatGPT, can match humans as a source of everyday emotional support.

This project - partially funded by the Royal Society involved 35 students from four schools in County Durham, St John's Bishop Auckland, Framwellgate School, Durham School and St. Leonards.

About 50 researchers from the UK, Japan, Mexico, China, and across Europe visited Durham University from 13–17 July for the Durham Symposium on Metric Geometry, Analysis and Probability. The five-day symposium, hosted by the Department of Mathematical Sciences, brought together established and early-career researchers to share ideas, showcase recent advances, and identify new opportunities for future collaboration.

Slavery did not end with abolitionism in the 19th century. Instead it was rebuilt, again and again, into new forms of unfree labour that still shape the world today

Durham University and Berry College have signed a new articulation agreement, formalising a partnership that has developed through several years of close collaboration.

In this article, Dr Marzieh Kouhi-Esfahani, from our School of Government and International Affairs, examines how the funeral of former Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei became a significant political and diplomatic event, reflecting Iran's domestic priorities and international positioning.

Our researchers are leading on international energy and climate research – from monitoring vulnerable ice sheets to shaping future energy policy.

In early July Durham hosted an international gathering of friars, researchers and archivists interested in the history and theology of the Capuchin Franciscans at a two-day workshop.

Dr Liam Temple from our Department of Theology and Religion looks at why Pope Leo's excommunication of a conservative Catholic rebel group matters, and how this is the latest development in a long-running saga. 

The Sumaúma Pledging Tree for Human Rights-Based Climate Action is a new initiative that encourages governments, organisations and other stakeholders to make meaningful commitments that place human rights at the centre of climate action.

Our physicists are part of one of the most ambitious studies of the Universe ever undertaken.