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The Global Challenges Research Fund will join with international partners to support new research into disaster risk, reduction and resilience.

UK Research and Innovation has announced four regional workshops to seek input to the current UKRI Review of Artificial Intelligence.

In partnership with research agencies from Canada and France, UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) has launched a series of international workshops examining the implications of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on society.

A team of UK scientists are working to invent a type of portable sniffing device that can detect whether avocados are rotten.

Star-gazing technology is being used by scientists to produce detailed monitoring of orangutans in Borneo.

Research England has made the first award from its RED Fund to the University of Liverpool for an innovative project, worth £4.4m, to boost the success of postdoctoral researchers outside of academia.

Research using the tiny tropical fish has shown how key brain cells that are damaged in people with Parkinson’s can be regenerated.

Scientists have isolated therapeutic antibodies from healthy volunteers exposed to the Ebola vaccine but not Ebola virus itself, suggesting that protective therapies could be developed from people who are disease-free.

Restriction or inhalation of common sugar could one day treat a range of respiratory diseases, according to new research.

Drone technology could help protect one of the world's best-loved and most valuable crops – coffee – from the spread of devastating fungal disease.

UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) has today published its 2018 Gender Pay Gap Report.

A black-and-white photograph depicting a brother and sister playing in the sand at Lytham Beach has been awarded the top prize at a national social science photo competition for 14-18 year olds.

Important crop pollinators such as the Ashby Mining Bee are on the up, according to a new study.

Professor Andrew Thompson, Executive Chair of the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), has announced that he will step down from the role at the end of December 2019.

Cutting edge health projects, including new software which enables radiologists to diagnose breast cancer more effectively and gene therapy to combat kidney disease, have received £23 million of government funding.

A new project aims to tackle the diversity challenge within the technology industry.

Twenty-four ambitious projects, from pharmaceuticals to aerospace, and transport to the creative economy, are to receive early-stage funding to develop full-stage bids that could lead to significant economic growth in places across the country.

Listen to the birdsong on your morning commute or watch the woodland squirrels on your lunchbreak and note down what you see for the first ever crowd-sourced nature diary.