Researchers from our top-rated Biosciences and Chemistry Department have discovered that combinations of metals linked to smoking and pollution may help lung cancer become resistant to chemotherapy.

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.

We have received a donation of translations of the acclaimed literary work The Four Dreams of Linchuan.

Classics Professor Arlene Holmes-Henderson has co-edited a new book that brings together leading voices from around the world to explore the future of the Humanities.

We have secured funding for three new research projects from the prestigious Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation, further strengthening our partnership with Japan.

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.