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Covid lockdown linked to child development issues

25 November, 20252025 Data, Digital and AI Future of Health and Care Research

Lockdown and social distancing measures during the Covid-19 pandemic were associated with increased…

Group of toddlers playing

University receives national honour for fire safety team

25 November, 20252025 Research

The University of Edinburgh has been awarded one of the UK’s highest honours for the pioneering and…

Three professors standing in fire lab

Study finds gene linked with risk of delirium

25 November, 20252025 Future of Health and Care Research

A major genetic risk factor for delirium has been identified in a landmark study that analysed the…

An elderly man sitting in a hospital bed at night and touching his head

UK AI strategy sees Edinburgh as vital for powering science

25 November, 20252025

The University of Edinburgh is set to play a key part in how AI is used to revolutionise research…

Professor Mark Parsons pictured at the EPCC facility.

AI tools forecast aftershock risk in seconds

25 November, 20252025 Data, Digital and AI Research

Earthquake forecasting tools powered by AI can forecast the risk of aftershocks seconds after the…

A suburban house destroyed by the passage of a hurricane

Women’s sports takes centre stage as Edinburgh nets award

25 November, 20252025

Champions of women’s sports at the University have been recognised for their exceptional efforts,…

Women rowing with one female at the focus and others in background

Project to map enslaved people’s testimony

24 November, 20252025 Data, Digital and AI Research

Edinburgh historians will investigate slavery and the law in British Guiana, now Guyana, in a new…

Front page of Reports of the Protectors of Slaves

Chip and software breakthrough makes AI ten times faster

20 November, 20252025 Data, Digital and AI Research

A system has been developed that enables large language models to process information up to ten…

A photograph of a Cerebras AI chip sitting on its side on a white table with a postage stamp in front of it to provide scale. The postage stampe is about 1 per cent the size of the AI chip.

Edinburgh ranks 4th in the world for sustainability

19 November, 20252025 Climate and Environmental Crisis

The University has been recognised as one of the top universities in the world for its social and…

(L-R) Prof Caroline Nichol, Prof Marc Metzger, Rachel Orchard, Mareike Feldmann, Prof Rob Ogden, Tilda Tarrant, Dr Nicholle Bell, Dr Iain McNicol, Dr Georgios Xenakis, Dr Annie Yang standing on moorland at Drumbrae, Stirlingshire

Volcanic rocks could store captured CO2, study finds

18 November, 20252025 Climate and Environmental Crisis Research

Rocks formed by ancient volcanoes found across the UK could safely store millions of tonnes of CO2…

Waterstein Head from Neist Point, Isle of Skye, Scotland.