Weighing the Earth In the 18th century what lay beneath the Earth’s surface was hotly debated. Was the Earth hollow or solid? Was its interior full of ocean waters that entered through deep chasms, filled with fermenting mud, or were Earth’s subterranean realms inhabited by strange creatures and spirits, as in the Celtic mythology of […]

At NESSIE we are continuing with our “Spotlight on the Researcher” series, and this time we are focusing on Professor Gerry Stansby, Professor of Vascular Surgery at Newcastle University. Gerry is one of NESSIE’s founding members having previously been joint co-ordinating editor for the Cochrane Vascular group, a role which he describes as being very […]

  This February, Digital Safety Officer, Ricarda, teamed up with Campus Security and Information Security colleagues to run scams and fraud awareness stalls for international students. We tied the stalls in with Lunar New Year due to a high number of scams currently directly targeting Chinese students in the UK. As it’s the year of the fire horse, the team couldn’t […]

If you are interested in helping users and people, we have an interesting summer internship for you which is about checking our services to make sure they are as accessible as they can be for all our users.

We all know that DNA (four chemical letters: A, T, C, G) encodes the genetic information of our lives, including appearance, growth, and even genetic diseases. It performs like an instruction book that tells our cells how to function. However, do you know how we decrypt this personal book and apply it for diagnosis and […]

Spring Dissertation and Thesis Festival 23-27 February 2026: We have an exciting week of events planned for the Library’s Dissertation & Thesis Festival this February to highlight how the Library can help students succeed with their dissertation or thesis. Our programme includes a Discovery Day on Monday 23 February, when the Main Library (at George Square) will feature stalls from digital resource publishers and our own library teams highlighting our huge range of […]