Did you eat breakfast this morning, or skip this meal to rush to work, or to sleep longer? If you don’t eat breakfast, is it because you don’t feel hungry and can’t face food first thing?
If you prefer to hit the snooze button for a longer sleep, or choose…
After Glasgow in 2021, the focus of global attention on international climate change negotiations has moved on to Sharm-el-Sheikh as Egypt takes on the presidency of the UN’s Climate Change Convention for COP27. The University of Aberdeen is represented at COP27 by a team of five staff and students, who…
Dr David Watts, a Social scientist and historian based in the Rowett Institute, explores the story of the man behind the name of the Institute and how his generous gift a century ago has supported ground-breaking nutritional research for 100 years.
Although most accounts date the founding of the…
The food we eat affects not only our own health but that of our planet. Production and consumption patterns today are having a detrimental impact on the environment, threatening food security in many countries. The food system is said to be responsible for about 20-30% of global greenhouse gas emissions.
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Professor Abbie McLaughlin, from the University of Aberdeen’s Department of Chemistry, takes a look at the opportunities presented by a research breakthrough that could enable the widespread use of hydrogen energy to power transport and homes as part of the energy transition.
With the recent arrival of the…
The oil and gas industry currently finds itself in a situation which is far from comfortable.
On the one hand, the industry just began to recover from the 2014 downturn.
Now the industry faces perhaps an even bigger challenge: the move towards a carbon-free society, also referred to as energy…
Dr Richard Mounce from the University’s Centre for Transport Research gives an overview of the ESPRIT stackable cars project after it featured as a topic of discussion on The Grand Tour.
In a recent episode of The Grand Tour, (Series 3 Episode 10) Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May…
On Friday I was proud to represent the University at the opening of the National Decommissioning Centre, a long-term £38m partnership between the University and the Oil & Gas Technology Centre.
Based at the University’s former Oceanlab research facility in Newburgh, the NDC will work in partnership with companies to…
