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Research · 15 September 2026
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...
Read more: A quiet gene that helps ancient oaks survive droughtResearch · 20 August 2026
A psalter damaged in a fire in 1731 has given up forty lines of lost text to the Centre for Manuscript Studies.
Read more: Reading a burnt medieval psalter with ultraviolet lightResearch · 28 August 2026
Using the 1911 refractor on the Observatory roof, astronomy students have measured the night sky over 60 kilometres of the valley.
Read more: Students map a dark-sky corridor from the college observatoryGifts to the Aldermere Fund pay for one scholarship in three.
