Researchers at the Durham Energy Institute have been awarded a £1.84m grant to lead a consortium of university and industry partners in developing virtual power plant technologies. The new funding is part of UK Research and Innovation’s (UKRI) £13 million investment to fund 13 projects to help the UK meet its Net Zero targets.

Scientists – including one of Durham’s leading glaciologists - and several countries highly vulnerable to climate change have warned that key global temperature goals might be too high.

Our closest living relatives could help us better understand how communication evolved in humans and how our own language skills emerge.

European birds have shifted towards northeast Europe in the last 30 years in search of cooler temperatures but natural obstacles are causing problems.

Firms that have CEOs with a sense of working in the name of their enduring family are much more likely to be internationally focused.

The agility and capability of Small to Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) to adopt digital technologies to enhance and promote an effective circular economy could pave the way for effectively combatting plastic pollution.

Announcing the Visual and Material Lab as part of the Discovery Research Platform for Medical Humanities at Durham University.

Dr Philip Goff from our Department of Philosophy explains the difference between artificial intelligence (AI) and consciousness.

Scientists have unearthed a harrowing story of forgotten children of the past, providing the first direct evidence of the lives of early nineteenth century ‘pauper apprentices’.

Our physicists are part of an international team that has successfully used a first-of-its-kind technique to measure the expansion of the Universe.

New research reveals that talking to babies and toddlers helps shape their developing brain.

CCS newsletter 45 is now available online.