2020

Cardiff helps drive ‘electric revolution’

13 March 2020

Compound Semiconductor Centre ‘net zero’ challenge

Evolutionary elements arrived on Earth much later than thought, say scientists

11 March 2020

Analysis of the 3.8 billion-year-old rocks from Greenland show that most of the elements necessary for the evolution of life were delivered to Earth once its formation was almost complete

Scientists design new model to further understand causes of Alzheimer’s disease

9 March 2020

‘Exciting’ new model will help pinpoint new treatment targets for most common form of dementia

South Wales creatives secure seed funding for screen ideas

9 March 2020

£90,000 awarded to freelancers in first Clwstwr Seed cohort

Union or Independence?

6 March 2020

Closing Wales’ fiscal gap will be a huge challenge, whatever the country’s constitutional future

Global plan to protect endangered species ‘overlooks genetic diversity’

5 March 2020

Scientists urge rethink on international 10-year action plan to protect nature

Language mentoring project goes from strength-to-strength

3 March 2020

Drive to increase uptake of modern foreign languages

‘Biggest shift yet’ in British public’s attitude to risks of climate change

3 March 2020

Research reveals climate concerns now second only to Brexit and highlights rising fears over flooding and heatwaves

GW4 awarded £4.1m to build Europe’s largest ARM supercomputer

2 March 2020

The region’s leading universities, the GW4 Alliance, together with the Met Office, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), and partners, have been awarded £4.1m by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) to create Isambard 2, the largest Arm-based supercomputer in Europe.

Sally Power, Ian Rees Jones, Mark Drakeford and Alison Park

National research centre launches plan for the next five years

2 March 2020

Society’s most pressing challenges to be investigated thanks to new funding