Scientists from the School of Biology will spend the next two years researching whether an enzyme found in MRSA bacteria from the 1950s could help solve today’s problem of antibiotic tolerance.
Professor Tim Greenwood (School of History) has been elected into the British Academy's prestigious international Fellowship of leading scholars from the humanities and social sciences.
Wild chimpanzees share humans’ snappy conversational style, a new study shows.
Dr Daphné Lemasquerier has been awarded £1.4m by UKRI’s Future Leaders Fellowship for a project looking at Jupiter and its icy satellites.
Organic compounds that can be sustainably and affordably mass-produced show promise as replacements for expensive metal photocatalysts, according to a new report.
The University, in partnership with the Faraday Institution, has appointed Professor Venkataraman Thangadurai as its new Chair in Energy.
Pioneering research led by the University of St Andrews into the the significant role women have played in historical artistic work has been awarded funding by the Arts and Humanities Research Council.
An international team of researchers have discovered three potential “super-Earth” exoplanets orbiting a relatively nearby orange dwarf star, marking an important development in the search for habital planets.
A trial project in the Cairngorms which involves the strategic placement of artificial nests filled with chicken’s eggs has led to an increase of 83% in capercaillie nest survival.
New research from the University of St Andrews and the University of Copenhagen has harnessed the power of AI to generate new insight into the progression of ALS.