Last month was the wettest April on record according to data from the UK's longest running rainfall data collection station.

Some of the oldest galaxies in the Universe have three times more stellar mass, and so many more stars, than all current models of galaxy evolution predict.

A telescope buried beneath the South Pole has failed to find any neutrinos accompanying exploding fireballs in space, undermining a leading theory of how cosmic rays are born.

For millennia birds have been prized, even hunted, for their beautiful plumage but what makes their feathers so colourful? - A new X-ray analysis of the structure of feathers from 230 bird species, led by Vinod Saranathan of Oxford University's Department of Zoology, has revealed the nanostructures behind certain colours of feather, structures that could inspire new photonic devices.

Simulations of reality would require less memory on a quantum computer than on a classical computer has shown.

A new imaging method could help improve how doctors predict a patient's risk of having a heart attack.

Researchers from the University of Birmingham are creating clean hydrogen from food waste paving the way for a bioenergy alternative for the future.

The University of Birmingham will host a one-day workshop on the application of green technologies to waterways transportation at the School of Metallurgy and Materials on Wednesday 27 June 2012.