Professor Magda Titirici and her team use food waste to produce carbon products. Most recently they have developed a catalyst for fuel cells that replaces the expensive platinum currently used.

Professor of Vascular Pharmacology, Amrita Ahluwalia, has discovered a way to give people nitric oxide, commonly found in vegetables like beetroot, in order to help prevent heart disease and lessen the impacts of heart attacks.

Professor Matthew Evans, Head of the School of Biological and Chemical Sciences and a Professor of Ecology, explains his work modelling the impacts of badger culling on the spread of Bovine Tuberculosis.

In 2015, it was announced that researchers from Queen Mary University of London found what they believe to be the oldest tea in Britain. The dried green tea was acquired in China, around the year 1700, by ship’s surgeon James Cuninghame, who subsequently gave it as a gift to the famous physician and collector of curiosities, Hans Sloane. In this video, the research team discuss the significance of their discovery and their work as historians of Britain's favourite drink.

Dr Alan McElligott, from the School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, has found that goats are far more intelligent than their reputation suggests and has made discoveries about their emotions that can help improve their welfare on farms round the world.

Dr David Hone, from the School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, talks about the possible reasons why many dinosaurs evolved frills and crests that at first sight seem unnecessarily cumbersome.