Despite their remarkable evolutionary history, brachiopods remain poorly understood, particularly in terms of their evolutionary origins and sister-group relationships within the animal kingdom.
St Andrews is playing a key role in a major new regional partnership backed by £20 million from UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) that aims to turn creative ideas into innovative products.
New research from the University of St Andrews shows seabed trawling could rapidly release carbon stored in Scotland’s sea lochs, with the heads of lochs identified as particularly vulnerable to disturbance and trawling.
Seven University of St Andrews researchers have been awarded funding through the Royal Society of Edinburgh's Spring 2026 Research Awards Programme.
Researchers at the University of St Andrews are celebrating the start of the Vera C. Rubin Observatory's 10-year Legacy Survey of Space and Time, helping unlock new discoveries about the changing Universe.
Rigorous scientific analysis can challenge even the largest technology corporations.
Using 20 years of recordings researchers showed that whales living in the eastern Mediterranean had developed a new form of the vocal dialect used by animals in the western basin.
Methanol contamination of spirits such as whisky, gin and vodka causes hundreds of deaths each year and can lead to serious physical consequences
Analysis of one of the most comprehensive long-term databases ever created, BioTIME – a major tool to study biodiversity change also developed at the University of St Andrews.
New international research reveals how a woman who lived with a lifelong physical impairment more than 1,500 years ago was supported, valued and buried