Our astronomers have helped make a huge map of the night sky showing more than 25,000 active supermassive black holes in distant galaxies. The map is the.
New research by our Department of Sociology shows that calls for help from male domestic abuse victims have rocketed during lockdown and, behind closed.
Alex Aiken
The 5Ds – digital, diversity, data, direct communications and disinformation – are the major challenges for 2021, says Alex Aiken, the UK Government’s most senior communications professional.
Addressing these will enhance strategic communications activities that encourage conversations with disparate and diverse audiences rather than broadcasting to them.
Long gone are the days of SOS communications – ‘Sending Out Stuff’.
Alex was speaking via Zoom to Advancement and Communications professionals at Durham University, invited by Director and former Government Communications chief Lucian J. Hudson.
The day before, the UK had reached 100,000 deaths due to Covid-19, and the Government’s ‘Look into my Eyes’ Covid-19 campaign had just launched.
New evidence points to dogs being domesticated in Siberia before joining us into the Americas
Dogs are regarded as our best friend and now our researchers say the first people to settle in the Americas brought their canines with them.
The research led by our Department of Archaeology sheds more light on the origin of dogs.
Researchers looked at the archaeological and genetic records of ancient people and dogs.
They found that the first people to cross into the Americas before 15,000 years ago, were of Siberian descent and were accompanied by their dogs.
Domesticated before reaching the Americas
Their discovery suggests that dog domestication likely took place in Siberia before 23,000 years ago, prior to the human settlement of the Americas.