Lasers look at tumour growth
New 'squishy' lasers could help solve the mystery of the biological forces that control the development of embryos and cancerous tumours.
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MRSA enzyme could help tackle antibiotic tolerance timebomb
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.
St Andrews professor elected Fellow of the British Academy
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.
Scientists find similarities between chimpanzee and human communication
Wild chimpanzees share humans’ snappy conversational style, a new study shows.
UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship
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 show promise as cheaper alternatives to metal photocatalysts
Organic compounds that can be sustainably and affordably mass-produced show promise as replacements for expensive metal photocatalysts, according to a new report.
Chair in Energy for St Andrews
The University, in partnership with the Faraday Institution, has appointed Professor Venkataraman Thangadurai as its new Chair in Energy.
£1.5m funding boost for international research into medieval women at work
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.
Astronomers find potentially habitable 'super-Earth' exoplanet
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.
The great egg caper that could save the capercaillie
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.