Articles tagged with 'science-and-engineering' | University of Manchester

The Dalton Nuclear Institute has been recognised as “world-leading” by Prime Minister Andy Burnham during his Innovation Nation speech in Manchester, where he outlined his vision for the UK to become the world's leading innovation nation.

An international team of Astronomers including researchers from the Universities of Manchester and Oxford have used a combination of the MeerKAT telescope and the James Webb Space Telescope to identify the most distant fast radio burst (FRB) seen to …

Researchers at The University of Manchester have secured a £1.2 million EPSRC grant to investigate how water and electrolytes behave when confined to atomically thin spaces.

The University of Manchester brings together transport expertise in areas including aerodynamics, hydrodynamics, future fuels, advanced materials, electrical infrastructure, social science, transport planning, sustainable transport and policy and …

University of Manchester undergraduate has won second place in the Cambridge Edge AI Innovation for Sustainability Challenge 2026 with a concept designed to improve early wildfire detection whilst reducing reliance on energy-intensive data centres. …

University of Manchester chemists help create the first isolable uranium–carbon triple bond, giving scientists a clearer view of how uranium shares electrons with carbon and opening new routes for fundamental actinide chemistry.

Chemists have designed a new molecule that can emit different colours for pressure and temperature, providing a built-in way to correct a long-standing error in the specialist paints used for testing aircraft.

From quantum computers to ultra-precise sensors, many of tomorrow’s breakthrough technologies depend on engineering materials at the atomic level. A new £12.6 million programme led by The University of Manchester aims to use this to create advanced …

Researchers from the University of Manchester have been recognised by the Royal Academy of Engineering, as it is today announced that four will be made Fellows, and three receive the Colin Campbell Mitchell Award.

The University of Manchester is delighted to announce the appointment of Dr Kirsty Hewitson as a Royal Academy of Engineering Visiting Professor in Adoption of Robotics in High Hazard Industries at the Faculty of Science and Engineering.

Three Manchester researchers awarded UKRI Future Leaders Fellowships to lead bold challenge-led research. Dr Samuel Draycott will use his award to transform our understanding of how ocean waves break, and what happens when they do, Dr Lukas …

Professor Francis Livens, Dalton Nuclear Institute, explores what the UK nuclear sector can tell us about the wider challenges facing government. Against the backdrop of the Government’s agenda to reduce administrative burdens and enable faster, …

Higher education institutions in the United States and the United Kingdom have established a transatlantic partnership to advance research, skills, and policy in fusion energy.

Creative technologist, CTO for Massive Attack and Genotone founder will strengthen interdisciplinary research and teaching on AI, creative authorship and digital provenance

Dr Rebecca Tyne has secured a prestigious European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant to launch VISTA, an ambitious project that aims to create the first overarching picture of how gases move through the Earth's crust. By combining ultra-precise …

Researchers at The University of Manchester, Humboldt University of Berlin and Indian School of Business have revealed contrasting patterns of forest loss and recovery in India's tropical dry woodlands, highlighting implications for biodiversity, …

Astronomers have confirmed that one of the fastest-changing stars ever observed has entered a new stage of its evolution, offering a rare opportunity to watch a star's life unfold on human timescales.

A new machine learning framework could help engineers assess the thermal response of partially protected steel beams in minutes, reducing the time and computing resources typically needed for complex thermal modelling.

Dr Zhonghua Zheng named to MIT Innovators Under 35 global list, for his work using AI and cloud computing to improve urban climate and climate-energy modelling.

Scientists have used X-ray images taken during a rocket flight to capture metal dendrites in microgravity for the first time, revealing insights that could improve manufacturing processes such as casting, welding and metal 3D printing.

Secondary school pupils from across Greater Manchester have designed, built and competed with their own mine-detecting robots in The University of Manchester's annual Manchester Minesweeper competition

Researchers from The University of Manchester have won the Automatica Paper Prize Award, one of the most prestigious international honours in systems and control research. The award recognises their paper, Feedback Stability Analysis via …

The Henry Royce institute is set to receive £95m funding as part of a £162 million package to drive forward vital medical and materials research.

A “peculiar” new species of Jurassic squid-like animal has been unearthed in Wyoming, USA, following the discovery of two exceptionally rare fossils dating back around 160 million years.

AI engineers often recognise ethical risks associated with the systems they build, but many lack the authority, incentives and organisational support needed to act on them, according to new research from The University of Manchester. 

Manchester researchers have found that natural clay channels can regulate ion flow in response to pressure, voltage and pH, showing behaviour similar to biological ion channels.

Manchester researchers will lead a new £12.6 million UK research programme launched to accelerate the development of next-generation photonic and quantum technologies.

New research shows superconductivity in magic-angle graphene can be switched off by weakening electron interactions, helping clarify what drives the phenomenon.

Researchers have developed a laboratory method that transforms sheep bone into a realistic model of osteoporosis.

A new review paper from the Dalton Nuclear Institute at The University of Manchester uses a Tube map design to examine how closing the nuclear fuel cycle - recycling and reusing materials from used fuel - improves the sustainability of nuclear …