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2023
26
January
2023
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14:01
Europe/London
Nationwide Engineering Research & Development (NERD) has signed a Tier 1 agreement with The University of Manchester’s Graphene Engineering Innovation Centre (GEIC), extending the ecosystem of key industrial partners working collaboratively on graphe...
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25
January
2023
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14:50
Europe/London
Published in Science, a collaboration between teams from the National Graphene Institute at The University of Manchester, and the École Normale Supérieure (ENS), Paris, demonstrated the Hebbian learning in artificial nanochannels, where the channels ...
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25
January
2023
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11:39
Europe/London
Our university’s strong relationship with India has taken another step forward, with two high level delegations on campus in January....
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25
January
2023
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10:43
Europe/London
Secure your place on the ICURe DISCOVER programme, a game-changing 8-week part-time online customer discovery programme, to help you rapidly test whether there is a market for your idea, product or service from the comfort of your workplace/home. The...
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13
January
2023
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17:02
Europe/London
The MeerKAT team is awarded the Group Award of the Royal Astronomical Society for a series of spectacular observations in radio astronomy, the highlight being the images of the Galactic Centre region and the spectacular radio bubbles. ...
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12
January
2023
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16:55
Europe/London
Almost a decade after starting observations of the sky in the northern hemisphere in the microwave range, the QUIJOTE Collaboration has presented the most accurate description we have of the polarisation of the emission of the Milky Way at these wave...
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11
January
2023
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12:53
Europe/London
Molymem, a spin-out company based at The University of Manchester that is developing a breakthrough water filtration technology, which promises to be both greener and cheaper, has secured SEED equity investment of £500,000 to help scale-up....
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2022
20
December
2022
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11:42
Europe/London
2022 was another packed year for news from the Faculty Science and Engineering. From dinosaurs, to robots and amazing students to distant stars, here are some of our highlights:...
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08
December
2022
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16:00
Europe/London
The very first images from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) included a wonderful view of the ‘Southern Ring’, a planetary nebula. A team of astronomers from across the world has studied this image in detail, to see how our own Sun may evolve in ...
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06
December
2022
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10:49
Europe/London
National Grid and The University of Manchester have been named ‘Best Innovation in Net Zero and Sustainability’ at the E&T Innovation Awards for their commitment to developing a retrofill solution to replace SF6....
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02
December
2022
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13:58
Europe/London
Greater Manchester’s burgeoning innovation ecosystem has taken another major step forward with the signing of an agreement with the UK's national innovation agency, Innovate UK....
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28
November
2022
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08:00
Europe/London
An ambitious partnership between The University of Manchester and Abu Dhabi-based Khalifa University of Science and Technology has been agreed, with the aim to deliver a funding boost to graphene innovation that will help tackle the planet’s greatest...
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22
November
2022
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13:22
Europe/London
The University of Manchester is launching a new specialist multi-disciplinary centre to explore developments in smart robotics through the lens of artificial intelligence (AI) and autonomous machinery....
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22
November
2022
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11:00
Europe/London
Euglenoids, single-celled eukayotic flagellates, are relatively understudied, but their genomes hold great biotechnological potential. The Euglena International Network (EIN) is calling for more coordinated work to understand the genetic makeup and t...
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17
November
2022
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13:24
Europe/London
In a recently published paper, an international research group examined significant development directions in the field of electronic materials with curved geometries at the nanoscale. From microelectronic devices with enhanced functionality to large...
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15
November
2022
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11:23
Europe/London
New research from the Tyndall Centre at The University of Manchester highlights an urgent global need for investment in green fuels this decade to meet the Paris Climate goals....
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04
November
2022
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13:44
Europe/London
Watercycle Technologies – a spin-out company from The University of Manchester that specialises in recovery of scarce minerals through filtration - has won a £500,000 Innovate UK Smart Grant, in partnership with Cornish Lithium, to test its ground-br...
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04
November
2022
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00:05
Europe/London
At a visit yesterday (Thursday 3 November) the new Business Secretary, Grant Shapps, has announced a £95m investment to the Henry Royce Institute (‘Royce’) headquartered at The University of Manchester. ...
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02
November
2022
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08:30
Europe/London
Scientists find copies of lost fossil destroyed in WWII hiding in a US museum....
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24
October
2022
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15:20
Europe/London
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has successfully approached a proton collision point for the first time since its three-year refurbishment. The successful implementation of the new Vertex Locator (VELO), which was partly built in Manchester offers a ...
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17
October
2022
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11:00
Europe/London
The UK has joined an international astronomy mission to search the skies for cosmic origins of the universe....
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07
October
2022
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07:00
Europe/London
Graphene scientists from The University of Manchester discovered that water molecules on the surface of graphene electrodes split exponentially faster with stronger electrical forces – a phenomenon known as the Wien effect....
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06
October
2022
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14:55
Europe/London
Pioneering scientists and engineers from The University of Manchester are looking to build a future in space through innovation in advanced materials and autonomous systems - including revolutionary concepts in space habitats and the trustworthy robo...
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03
October
2022
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10:19
Europe/London
Materials researchers have developed a new technique to successfully determine the recycled contents of plastic products....
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29
September
2022
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16:36
Europe/London
The University of Manchester and the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) in Bengaluru, India are pleased to announce the launch of a joint award PhD programme which represents the next phase of a strategic partnership....
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07
September
2022
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08:14
Europe/London
A new method to detect Parkinson’s disease has been determined by analysing sebum with mass spectrometry....
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02
September
2022
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12:58
Europe/London
As from today, Kinder Scout, the National Nature Reserve (NNR) in Derbyshire cared for by the National Trust, will be extended in size by 25 per cent (226 hectares) thanks to a declaration by Natural England....
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18
August
2022
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13:19
Europe/London
‘Tales From The Future’, a beer made in a recent collaboration between researchers at The University of Manchester and Cloudwater Brew Co., will launch at the end of August 2022. The beer is uniquely brewed using a novel strain of yeast, a hybrid, de...
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16
August
2022
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14:30
Europe/London
Scientists from Manchester and China have demonstrated that graphene can be a kind of ‘philosopher’s stone’, allowing gold extraction from waste containing only trace amounts of gold....
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11
August
2022
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16:00
Europe/London
Researchers from the Manchester Institute of Biotechnology (MIB) have developed a new enzyme engineering platform to improve plastic degrading enzymes through directed evolution. ...
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