Posted on Thursday 18 August 2011

Scientists in the Department of Biology at the University of York have shown that species respond to climate change up to three times faster than previously appreciated. These results are published in the latest issue of the leading scientific journal Science.

Posted on Wednesday 9 March 2011

A study published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B by researchers at Rothamsted Research (an institute of the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council), and the universities of Lund (Sweden), Greenwich and York, reports the surprising finding that night-flying moths are able to match their songbird counterparts for travel speed and direction during their annual migrations but they use quite different strategies to do so - information that adds to our understanding of the lifestyle of such insects, which are important for maintaining biodiversity and food security.

Posted on Tuesday 16 November 2010

Radio-Frequency Identification - the same technology that is used in London Transport's Oyster cards - is being used by a York academic to predict how groups of individuals behave.

Posted on Thursday 14 October 2010

Researchers in the Centre for Novel Agricultural Products (CNAP) have become part of the UK’s biggest ever public investment in bioenergy research. The £27 million BBSRC Sustainable Bioenergy Centre aims to provide the science that could replace the petrol in our cars with fuels derived from plants.