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DURHAM University’s new Vice-Chancellor and Warden has taken up the post, eight months after it was announced she would be taking over the role.

Chillies contain irritants, explaining why you might sweat after eating a hot meal. Prudence Wade finds out more.

A record-breaking seven past and present Durham University students have been chosen to represent their respective home nations at the upcoming Tokyo Olympic Games. Six sporting stars will be representing Team GB in Hockey and Rowing, as well as one recent graduate who will be representing Canada in Fencing. The athletes were recently congratulated during a group Zoom call with Durham University Vice-Chancellor, Professor Stuart Corbridge. Leading the way to Tokyo is twenty-one-year-old Fiona Crackles, a Sport and Exercise Sciences student in her second year, representing Team GB as part of t...

Structural reforms and improved technology have transformed contact tracing and outbreak management in Victoria.

Advertisement Deep inside a layer of concrete and a few centimetres of steel sits a lab it is hoped will be key to keeping Australia safe from vaccine-busting coronavirus variants. Under these ultra-secure conditions at the University of NSW’s Kirby Institute, just south of Sydney’s CBD, a team of scientists is quickly screening the growing tide of mutant viruses that reach Australia’s borders. The variant lab – seen here through thick protective glass. Credit:James Brickwood Are they more infectious? Worse, do they evade our vaccine defences? The lab’s head, Associat...