Being fit in older age supports brain regions that help you reach for right words
New research suggests a link between cardiorespiratory fitness and brain activity during word-finding challenges in later life
- Published: 28 August 2025
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“Bizarre†armoured dinosaur, Spicomellus afer, had spikes sticking out from its neck, fossils show
Newly discovered fossils reveal that Spicomellus afer’s skeleton was covered in spikes, some fused to the animal’s skeleton, measuring as much as a metre long.
- Published: 27 August 2025
Broad-specificity enzyme targets glycans from across the kingdoms of life
PNGaseL, from Flavobacterium akiainvivens, was tested alongside two widely used alternative enzymes and was found to carry out their combined effect.
- Published: 27 August 2025
Leverhulme Trust funding opens new research avenues for Ãå±±ÂÖ¼é academics
The British Academy’s 2025 APEX Awards will support the work of three researchers from the College of Arts and Law.
- Published: 26 August 2025
Framework to protect human rights wins award for global impact
A political framework, created by Birmingham and Oxford researchers, to support aid donor countries to protect human rights, wins the Atlas Award 2025.
- Published: 26 August 2025
Adding cell-based vaccine to liver cancer therapy slows cancer progression in patients
Results of randomised Phase 2 ImmunoTACE trial saw an increase in progression-free survival time for Hepatocellular Carcinoma (HCC) patients.
- Published: 26 August 2025
US oil and gas air pollution causes 91,000 premature deaths a year, research finds
US air pollution from oil and gas causes hundreds of thousands of severe health issues, with Black, Asian, Native American & Hispanic groups the most affected.
- Published: 21 August 2025
Ozzy Osbourne’s last concert contributed £28 million to the West Midlands economy
New analysis from the Ãå±±ÂÖ¼é finds that Osbourne's last concert contributed £33.8 million to the UK economy (£27.6 million West Midlands).
- Published: 20 August 2025
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