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An Aberdeen computer scientist is leading the UK input into an exciting new international research project as part of the UK Government’s commitment to collaborate with India on research addressing pressing problems facing the world today.

A concert held for the second time in memory of a popular north-east musician has netted more than £15,000 for research into two of Scotland’s fastest rising cancers.

Aberdeen scientists have photographed for the first time fish and shrimps at Europe’s deepest point – 5111 metres or 3.2 miles deep below the surface of the Mediterranean Sea.

Dating back more than 5,000 years and developed later by the Romans to enable the construction of the great basilicas and coliseums, cement has evolved to bind together modern society.

The findings of a study led by the ºÚÁÏÍø could put IVF treatment ‘on a more equal footing’ with chronic diseases when it comes to making decisions about the cost effectiveness of treatment options.

Groundbreaking research at the ºÚÁÏÍø into chronic pain and bone and joint diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis, osteoporosis and osteoarthritis has officially been recognised.

Closer links have been forged between the ºÚÁÏÍø and Wuhan University in China, following the signing of an inter-institutional agreement in Aberdeen.

A ºÚÁÏÍø researcher has won a prize for her first sociology book, about people working with farm animals.

Each year one in every 1,000 people in the UK is affected by deep vein thrombosis DVT) – a blood clot in one of the deep veins in the body.

The latest instalment of the ºÚÁÏÍø’s popular Café Scientifique Aberdeenshire series will be held at Banchory’s Woodend Barn on Tuesday April 12.