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Cardiff scientists switch from cancer research to help develop coronavirus vaccine

3 April 2020

Team investigating ‘viral toolkit’ to deliver vaccine to people

Improving the lives of people with dementia

31 March 2020

Linguist’s research influencing the approach of carers

A Welsh Food System Fit for Future Generations

27 March 2020

Report calls for action to make sustainable produce a viable choice

Scientists predict the size of plastics animals can eat

27 March 2020

New equation could help determine risk of plastics to any species - and amount of plastic entering food chains

Scientists get first look at cause of ‘slow motion’ earthquakes

25 March 2020

Ocean drilling project reveals ‘mash up’ of rock types that lead to unique slow motion earthquake events

Universities launch research project on UK attitudes to coronavirus pandemic

24 March 2020

Researchers urge people from across country to take part in wide-ranging survey

Repeat offenders’ lifestyles ‘may put them at higher risk of coronavirus’

24 March 2020

Cardiff University criminologist says offenders’ lifestyles make them likely to ignore guidance

Cardiff scientists to help track UK spread of coronavirus

23 March 2020

£20m project to create UK-wide network of sequencing centres to map and halt spread

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

South Wales creatives secure seed funding for screen ideas

9 March 2020

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

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

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

‘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

Language mentoring project goes from strength-to-strength

3 March 2020

Drive to increase uptake of modern foreign languages

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.