Research news

Biologists at the Institute for Climate and Landscape have identified a gene that switches on only in oaks more than two centuries old - and seems to keep them alive through dry summers.

Using the 1911 refractor on the Observatory roof, astronomy students have measured the night sky over 60 kilometres of the valley.

A psalter damaged in a fire in 1731 has given up forty lines of lost text to the Centre for Manuscript Studies.