Northumbria University, Newcastle

9 June 2021 09:00

Protecting endangered, Yellow-eyed penguins from fatal infections

A team of researchers, led by Northumbria University, have been working to understand and develop a vaccine for an infection that’s been killing off rare penguins in New Zealand.
Yellow-eyed penguins, locally known as hoiho (Māori name), are one of the world’s rarest species. They are native to New Zealand and its outlying islands. Hoiho breeding pairs have been rapidly declining for over two

A detailed view of changes in ice flow around the Pine Island and Thwaites glaciers, due to thinning ice shelves. Pine Island Glacier is at the top right, with changes seen almost 100 miles inland.

2 December 2019 08:00

First evidence that Antarctica's thinning ice shelves are causing more ice to move from the land into the sea

Researchers have produced the first physics-based quantifiable evidence that thinning ice shelves in Antarctica are causing more ice to flow from the land into the ocean. Their findings have been published in Geophysical Research Letters.

The Sun's corona - its outermost layer of atmosphere

7 February 2019 13:56

Researchers find evidence for a new fundamental constant of the Sun

New research undertaken at Northumbria University shows that the Sun’s magnetic waves behave differently than currently believed. Their findings have been reported in the latest edition of the prominent journal, Nature Astronomy.

King Naram-Sin of Akkad, grandson of Sargon, leading his army to victory. (Rama / Louvre)

3 January 2019 14:09

EXPERT COMMENT: How climate change caused the world’s first ever empire to collapse

Dr Vasile Ersek, a senior lecturer in Physical Geography, writes for The Conversation about the discovery of new evidence of a drought that finished off the Akkadian Empire 4,000 years ago.

The Hi-C imager being fired into the Earth's atmosphere from a New Mexico missile range

6 July 2018 12:27

Will NASA’s solar images reveal the secrets of the Sun?

Solar physicists at Northumbria University, Newcastle are poring over brand new images of the atmosphere of the Sun taken by NASA on a recent missile launch.

18 July 2017 15:06

Northumbria research unlocks secrets of the Sahara

A peat bog in Romania provides a new insight into our knowledge of when the Sahara began to transform from grassland into the desert we know today, and the impact this had on dust deposition within Eastern Europe.

16 February 2017 14:45

What makes an expert

A leading psychologist at Northumbria University, Newcastle believes that the human brain is adaptable enough to enable anyone to become an expert if they practice correctly.

Subjects: Natural science