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2020
08
July
2020
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11:28
Europe/London
The UK government recently announced new post-study work visas for international students.
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10
June
2020
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09:43
Europe/London
Professor Sarah Heath provides an update to postgraduate (research) offer-holders in the Faculty of Science and Engineering.
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18
May
2020
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16:50
Europe/London
A new mass study of people living with chronic pain in the UK has demonstrated the links between pain and certain atmospheric weather conditions.
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18
May
2020
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16:33
Europe/London
Research published today by a UK-based team of scientists has shown for the first time that the mobility of potentially harmful contaminants in crystalline rocks over long periods of time may be severely limited due to the presence of tiny crystals.
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30
April
2020
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20:01
Europe/London
An international research project has revealed the highest levels of microplastic ever recorded on the seafloor, with up to 1.9 million pieces in a thin layer covering just one square metre.
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17
April
2020
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11:07
Europe/London
New research has shown that crops facing drought conditions can become more resilient to climate change by understanding what is happening in the soil below.
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08
April
2020
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18:56
Europe/London
A personal video update from Professor Danielle George for postgraduate (taught) offer holders amid coronavirus uncertainty.
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08
April
2020
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17:12
Europe/London
Professor Danielle George has recorded a personal message for undergraduate offer holders amid coronavirus uncertainty.
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31
March
2020
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14:38
Europe/London
Prof Richard Bardgett will use the €2.5 million grant to better understand the functional role of complex soil microbial communities.
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2019
02
October
2019
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11:55
Europe/London
The Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences is pleased to announce that Dr Patricia Clay has been appointed a Future Leaders Fellowship (FLF) cohort.
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29
April
2019
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12:55
Europe/London
SEES students will battle it out for the global Minus CO2 Challenge at the EAGE Conference in London in June.
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15
April
2019
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17:00
Europe/London
New research charts the history of the Greenland Ice Sheet and its impact on global sea levels throughout history to present day.
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12
April
2019
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16:10
Europe/London
Zainab Bibi has been included on the 2019 Forbes ‘30 under 30’ list.
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14
March
2019
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12:42
Europe/London
Two ex-Heads of the School have written a book covering the history of geology at The University of Manchester.
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07
February
2019
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12:01
Europe/London
Zainab Bibi is The University of Manchester's first certified Carbon Literacy Trainer.
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31
January
2019
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19:01
Europe/London
Scientists are a step closer to understanding what controls fine particulate matter in the Earth’s atmosphere after identifying new linkages between natural contaminants and with manmade pollutants.
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21
January
2019
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21:00
Europe/London
An international team of palaeontologists, including researchers from The University of Manchester, have uncovered evolutionary secrets hidden in the 100-million-year-old fossil of a hagfish – a slimy, eel-like scavenger that lived in an ancient ocea...
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11
January
2019
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17:00
Europe/London
Two University of Manchester astronomers have been awarded some of the Royal Astronomical Society’s (RAS) most prestigious prizes for their research and work in the field.
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08
January
2019
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13:00
Europe/London
A nearly metre-long skull of a giant fossil marine ichthyosaur found in a farmer’s field more than 60 years ago has been studied for the first time.
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2018
28
November
2018
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20:02
Europe/London
An international team led by researchers at The University of Manchester have discovered why some plants “live fast and die young” while others have long and healthy lives.
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25
October
2018
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02:00
Europe/London
Known as the ‘Icon of Evolution’ and ‘the missing link’ between dinosaurs and birds, Archaeopteryx has become one of the most famous fossil discoveries in Palaeontology.
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24
October
2018
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16:13
Europe/London
Dinosaurs could thrive and survive in Earth’s prehistoric, oxygen-thin atmosphere due to having lungs like birds a new study has found.
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24
October
2018
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11:00
Europe/London
Manchester-based Volcanologists have developed a method and camera that could help reduce the dangers, health risks and travel impacts of ash plumes during a volcanic eruption.
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01
October
2018
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16:11
Europe/London
The University has played an important role in a successful marine expedition to the deep waters of the Red Sea off Sudan.
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24
September
2018
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11:53
Europe/London
Colleagues from SEES asked 'what's in your water?' as part of Blastfest 2018 at Manchester Caribbean Carnival.
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24
September
2018
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11:44
Europe/London
Staff from SEES recently visited Myanmar to deliver workshops on freshwater ecology; it proved an important cultural exchange.
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29
August
2018
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10:56
Europe/London
The University of Manchester has teamed up with the UK’s number one zoo to help prevent the extinction of threatened species across the planet.
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06
August
2018
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21:00
Europe/London
The origin of organic matter found in meteorites that formed during the birth of the Solar System 4.5 billion years ago may provide key clues to understanding the birth of life here on Earth.
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02
August
2018
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12:14
Europe/London
The recent heatwave and drought could be having a deeper, more negative effect on soil than we first realised say scientists.
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01
August
2018
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14:55
Europe/London
Staff in the School of Earth and Environmental Sciences have secured funding, as part of a Faculty competition, for four projects to support its social responsibility agenda.
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