2022

The University of Edinburgh, through EPCC, has recently joined the Met Office Academic Partnership (MOAP), a cluster of research excellence consisting of eight UK universities that is aimed at advancing weather and climate research. 

The annual United Nations climate change conference (COP27) began yesterday in Egypt, starting two weeks of intense negotiations between countries from all over the world.  The conference will be seeking renewed solidarity and action in order to deliver the landmark Paris Agreement and shape our climate future for planet and people. 

The opening of the Nucleus building is set to transform the student and staff experience at the College of Science and Engineering. 

Having been at the leading edge of supercomputing, and its extraordinary growth over the past 30 years, Professor Mark Parsons believes we’re just at the cusp of exploiting its mind-blowing potential.

Edinburgh is among the world’s top institutions for tackling the world’s most pressing environmental and social issues.

Slamming sets of public information into one another can reveal powerful patterns and insights. But can it be done without damaging the public's trust that their data is being used sensitively? An Edinburgh team has some ingenious solutions.

​​​​​​​NASA Administrator Bill Nelson visited the University today to meet staff and students and share insights about sustainability and space.

The world’s first rapid testing facility for tidal turbine blades, which researchers say can speed up development of marine energy technologies while helping to reduce costs, has opened for business.

The College of Science and Engineering has excelled in the REF 2021 results.

Head of the School of Engineering, Conchúr Ó Brádaigh gives an overview of the potential of tidal energy, the university's role in helping it achieve that potential, and the forthcoming launch of FastBlade the university's new tidal blade testing facility in Rosyth, which opens on 13 May.

Scientists have solved a 100-year-old mystery about the evolutionary links between malaria parasites that infect humans and chimpanzees.

A spectacular fossil of a huge flying reptile known as a pterosaur, that was found on the Isle of Skye, is the largest of its kind ever discovered from the Jurassic period.

Professor Iain Gordon the current Head of the School of Mathematics has been appointed as the next Head of College of Science and Engineering.

A programme run by the Bayes Centre to support promising start-up companies, has been chosen as an Official Nominator for a prestigious environmental prize.

An exquisitely preserved embryo, found inside a fossilised dinosaur egg, sheds new light on the link between the behaviour of modern birds and dinosaurs, according to a new study.