UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)

Groundbreaking instrument captures its first observations of the heart of our Galaxy, launching a mission to map millions of stars and galaxies.

A tiny UK-developed satellite, roughly the size of a small carry-on suitcase, could help answer one of the biggest questions in cosmology: what...

The Medical Research Council (MRC) has announced a £50 million investment in the new MRC Centre of Research Excellence in Mitochondrial Genome...

Tiny, invisible swirls and twirls – not much bigger than a coin – deep below the ocean’s surface are silently shaping some of the biggest forces...

The way that Earth’s first animals reproduced held back life’s diversity for millions of years, until stress and competition led to the development of...

Too often, policy recommendations in climate-related research are either an afterthought or stray too far into advocacy, a major new analysis has...

Researchers have developed a technique that can identify errors caused by mutations linked to a range of genetic disorders, including forms of...

Researchers have developed a solar-powered reactor to break down hard-to-recycle forms of plastic waste – such as drinks bottles, nylon textiles and...

Researchers have developed a new kind of nanoelectronic device that could dramatically cut the energy consumed by artificial intelligence hardware by...

Researchers have identified a ‘tipping point’ about 2.7 million years ago when global climate conditions switched from being relatively warm and...