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Greenhouse gas removal (GGR) could make the UK carbon neutral by 2050, but immediate action is required says a new joint report by the Royal Academy of Engineering and Royal Society.   ...

Grafine Ltd is a new business created to develop innovative high-performance rubbers, elastomers and other such soft materials enhanced with graphene - the extraordinary 2-dimensional material first isolated in Manchester. ...

  The nuclear industry provides about 15% of the UK’s electricity, makes a vital contribution to the country’s carbon cutting ambitions and is a remarkably safe form of energy with no major accidents since the Windscale Fire in 1957. But despite a...

In January 2017 the world’s lightest mechanical chronograph watch was unveiled in Geneva, Switzerland, showcasing innovative composite development by using graphene. Now the research behind the project has been published. The unique precision-enginee...

Carers for people with cancer are between 5 and 7 times more likely to have mental health problems than the general population, according to a landmark new study. ...

The huge moorland fires at Saddleworth and Winter Hill in northwest England have shown just how serious a problem wildfires can be in the UK. Now the fires are out, it is time to look at how such catastrophes can be prevented in the future and why th...

A University of Manchester PhD student has developed a prototype flexible heat shield for spacecraft that could reduce the cost of space travel and even aid future space missions to Mars. ...

Dr Bachir Ismaël Ouédraogo, energy minister of Burkina Faso, returned to his alma mater last week to visit academics at The University of Manchester and discuss how our research might help his future ambitions to improve energy access for the majorit...

The Dalton Nuclear Institute is taking a revolutionary new approach to nuclear-related research by encouraging a lasting engagement between ‘traditional’ nuclear sciences and social science researchers.  ...

A new service has been launched by the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) and the National Graphene Institute (NGI) at The University of Manchester, which will help the UK to cash in on the potential of graphene, by providing the ‘missing link’ for i...

Researchers at The University of Manchester’s National Graphene Institute (NGI) have achieved a long-sought-after objective of electrically controlling water flow through membranes, as reported in Nature. ...

Proposals have been announced to create a world-leading precision medicine campus in the Corridor Manchester Enterprise Zone, located on the UK’s largest clinical academic campus - Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust. ...

The University of Manchester’s recently completed £60m Graphene Engineering Innovation Centre (GEIC) has agreed the first in a series of industrial partnerships to accelerate the commercialisation of graphene in Manchester. ...

The world’s first-ever sports shoes to utilise graphene – the strongest material on the planet – have been unveiled by The University of Manchester and British brand inov-8. ...

An international team of scientists has developed a material that can remove nitrogen dioxide gas and other toxic greenhouse gases from the atmosphere.   ...

Two initiatives developed by University of Manchester-based entrepreneurs have won £10,000 each from the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) at a national awards ceremony. ...

The researchers identified the contamination using a new method and say if the particles are inhaled they could pose long-term health risks to humans.   ...

Scientists have created a new way of speeding up the genome evolution of baker’s yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, the same yeast we use for bread and beer production. ...

The Graphene Engineering Innovation Centre (GEIC) at The University of Manchester has celebrated a key milestone in its construction. ...

The development of new Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology is often subject to bias, and the resulting systems can be discriminatory, meaning more should be done by policymakers to ensure its development is democratic and socially responsible. ...

A machine learning approach for assessing images of the craters and dunes of Mars, which was developed at The University of Manchester, has now been adapted to help scientists measure the effects of treatments on tumours. ...

Dr Carly McLachlan is the Director of Tyndall Manchester, an interdisciplinary climate change and energy research centre based at The University of Manchester, and was on the Steering Committee for the Green Summit. It’s been a month since the May...

Flexible televisions, tablets and phones as well as ‘truly wearable’ smart tech are a step closer thanks to a nanoscale transistor created by researchers at The University of Manchester and Shandong University in China. The international team has ...

A shipping industry summit is looking into how it can reduce its share of global greenhouse gas emissions in line with the Paris Agreement. But a lack of low carbon technologies is not the problem. The International Maritime Organization’s (IM...

A PhD student at The University of Manchester has developed a new method and software for using computer game technology for complex scientific and engineering simulations.   ...

An ambitious, world-class cancer research facility is to be built at The Christie on the site of the Paterson building which suffered devastating fire damage in April 2017 displacing over 300 scientists and support staff. ...

A new project launched in South Africa by The University of Manchester and the University of the Witwatersrand hopes to raise awareness of the vulnerability of deaf children in the country, as well as altering society’s attitudes towards them, by usi...

The shipping industry needs to move to renewable and alternative fuels but there is no widely available fuel to manage climate change and local pollutants according to a recent study. ...

What happens when you X-ray a chocolate rabbit? How complex is the wafer and chocolate composite of a Kit Kat? And why does the inside of a Ferrero Rocher resemble moon rock? ...

With Easter fast approaching, the thought of chocolate is probably on all our minds, but could the UK’s love of chocolate be having a damaging effect on the environment?   ...