A year of research from our partner institutions: the discoveries, programmes and ideas shaping every field, collected from the last twelve months and told for the global academic community. Each highlight is dated by the month the research was reported.
An Ivy League land-grant university whose research runs from quantum materials and crop science in Ithaca to biomedical discovery in Manhattan.
Durham's research powerhouse, pairing a world-class academic medical centre with strengths from quantum computing to climate science and lemur biology.
Switzerland's federal institute of technology pairs world-leading quantum, climate and health science with a famously inventive engineering culture.
Sweden's medical powerhouse, where registry-scale epidemiology, laboratory discovery and the Nobel Assembly shape medicine worldwide.
A graduate research university on the Red Sea pairing deep strengths in energy, water and marine science with fast-growing ambitions in AI and photonics.
One of Europe's oldest and broadest research universities, pairing quantum physics and cosmology with world-class medicine in the heart of Munich.
Sweden's research powerhouse, pairing the MAX IV synchrotron and the ESS neutron source with world-class medicine, photonics and migration biology.
A world-leading engine of discovery where fundamental science meets relentless invention, from AI and quantum matter to cancer biology and climate.
A research powerhouse where materials physics, synthetic biology and cancer medicine converge on problems of tropical and global consequence.
A Russell Group powerhouse where ageing science, mitochondrial medicine and climate engineering meet a fierce civic mission in England's North East.
China's oldest modern university, combining world-leading chemistry and semiconductor physics with earth system science of global reach.
A world centre for the social sciences, where economists, policy scholars and data researchers probe how societies, markets and climates change.
Hong Kong's oldest university, where virology, semiconductor physics and planetary science are pursued with equal intensity.
The birthplace of graphene and the stored-program computer, pairing advanced materials leadership with world-class cancer, energy and space science.
Japan's first national university, where neutrino observatories, asteroid samples and genome archives anchor one of Asia's great research enterprises.
Chile's oldest university and its public research flagship, spanning Atacama astronomy, Antarctic biology, seismic engineering and genomic medicine.
Latin America's research powerhouse, spanning tropical medicine, agriculture, physics and genomics from its vast Butantã campus and beyond.
A 575-year-old research powerhouse whose strengths run from gravitational waves and quantum engineering to virus research and precision medicine.
The oldest university in the English-speaking world, Oxford pairs collegiate tradition with one of the most productive research enterprises on the planet.
The largest French-language research university in the Americas, pairing Mila's AI leadership with world-class biomedical and fundamental science.
Korea's pioneering private research university, pairing a world-leading academic medical centre with frontier strength in materials, AI and nanoscience.