University Of Edinburgh

The world is in for a “brutal” experience over the winter months with Covid-19 but a corner will be turned by next March, a public health expert has s(...)

The UK has a long history of engineering invention and commercialisation, in part due to military exigencies. The world’s first tank was the UK’s Mk1,(...)

Congratulations, you have just been awarded European Research Council funding – those grants are hard to get. What will your project be about? Thank (...)

The percentage of people in Ireland wearing face masks in public is quite low – far lower than the 83.4 per cent uptake reported in Italy. This is des(...)

If a cheap pill were to go on sale tomorrow that scientists believed probably limited how far exhaled breath could travel and thereby reduced person-t(...)

Are we near the end of this seemingly endless crisis yet? The short and dispiriting answer is no, we are not even close to the end. There was definit(...)

Ireland got its response to Covid-19 largely right. Case figures and deaths don’t lie. But we got some things wrong – notably on face masks. In spit(...)

What are you working on at the moment? I’m working with the Covid-19 Genomics UK Consortium, to find out more about how the Covid-19 virus – SARS-CoV(...)

Across Europe, coronavirus has ravaged homes for the elderly, raising questions about why the part of society most vulnerable to the disease was overl(...)

Question: I’m not sure I’ll get the CAO points needed to study physiotherapy at home with “calculated grades”, so I’ve applied for courses in the UK a(...)