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Climate change poses a growing threat to biodiversity, water security, food systems and human health and well-being. New research from leading climate scientists from around the world has found that if implemented carefully; rapid, sustained mitigation and adaptation efforts could deliver wide-ranging benefits across all these interconnected challenges.

The University of Aberdeen in conjunction with Aberdeen Science Festival will host Discovery Day, a free, fun family day of activities, this weekend (Sunday, September 14)

Sales of items targeted by HFSS legislation drop two million per day

A major study of UK dietary habits has found that the food we eat contains an average of at least 49 different species each week.

Can "good bacteria" be used to maintain good health as we grow older? Scottish biotech company NCIMB has teamed-up with the pioneering Rowett Institute at the University of Aberdeen, to address this question in a new research project, funded by Innovate UK.

Efforts to find treatment for rare condition selected for special help

NHS cancer patients are being given extra fibre in a new study aimed at reducing the unpleasant side effects of radiotherapy and potentially increasing its effectiveness.

Baukje de Roos to co-lead Scotland Beyond Net Zero food theme

People living in Scotland 400 hundred years apart have been shown to suffer similar seasonal declines over winter in their vitamin D levels despite the enormous changes in lifestyle and diet over the intervening period.

How to harness the potential of weight-loss drugs without some of the unwelcome side-effects is the subject of a £1.2 million research project getting underway at the Rowett Institute and University College London.