Press releases

A Spitfire cockpit simulator, designed and developed by engineers from the University of Nottingham, has been officially unveiled at a local gallery.

A new study is using chewing gum with specially formulated flavours to help people regain their lost sense of smell and/or taste, and participants are needed to help with the research.

Three Nottingham academics have been awarded Research Fellowships from the Royal Academy of Engineering for projects looking at satellite communications, processes to speed up drug design and failure of cancer treatments.

Experts at the University of Nottingham will be part of a new Doctoral Training Centre (DTC), which has been funded by a multi-million-pound investment from Alzheimer's Society.

Researchers at Rolls-Royce University Technology Centre (UTC) in Manufacturing and On-Wing Technology at the University of Nottingham have developed ultra-thin soft robots, designed for exploring narrow spaces in challenging built environments.

A plant scientist from the University of Nottingham has been awarded €2M for research to unlock the mysteries of how plant roots sense and respond to water availability.

For the first time, the UK’s world-leading classical music festival, the BBC Proms, is coming to Nottingham, and it will feature an original piece of orchestral music written by a University of Nottingham academic.

Schools across Nottinghamshire are being invited to take part in a unique science lesson that will give students the opportunity to suggest objects they would like to see go under a powerful microscope that can zoom in to many times smaller than the width of a single human hair.

Nottingham researchers have been awarded over £3.5m to investigate new technologies for solving medical challenges in the treatment of cancer, diabetes and lung disease.

An ice hockey Paralympian and international leader in disability access has been named as the very first ambassador for the new National Rehabilitation Centre (NRC).