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A linguistics expert from The University of Manchester’s Institute of Education is calling for different varieties of English spoken around the world to be recognised as equally legitimate - particularly in the classroom - and for their variances to ...

A former Manchester undergraduate who is now the Head of News & Current Affairs at Channel 4 Television is to deliver this year’s Cockcroft Rutherford Lecture on Thursday 30 May. ...

The evolutionary use of colour for mammal’s survival in the wild is evident from, red foxes, to zebras. Today an international team, led by researchers from The University of Manchester, publish research revealing the evidence of colourful pigments f...

A first-year engineering student has finished ahead of thousands of others to be named as an undergraduate of the year in a national competition, winning a full summer internship with a major engineering firm. ...

A new collaborative scheme, launched today by Manchester Metropolitan University and The University of Manchester, aims to improve the digital skills, confidence and employment prospects of local graduates from disadvantaged backgrounds. ...

The RICS Awards showcase the most inspirational initiatives and developments in land, real estate, construction and infrastructure. They celebrate the achievements and successes of RICS professionals and their impact on local communities. The £60m...

    When Narendra Modi became India’s prime minister in spring 2014 the Indian economy was in the doldrums. There was a clear policy paralysis in India’s central government, in large part due to the high profile corruption cases that involv...

Three Manchester researchers have been selected among the very best researchers and innovators promising to deliver global impact. ...

Giving local communities in Nepal the opportunity to manage their forests has simultaneously reduced deforestation and poverty in the region, new research has shown.   ...

Researchers from The University of Manchester and the National Oceanography Centre (NOC) are racing to understand how microplastics are transported to the deep-sea floor in an effort to combat the growing ecological problem. ...

  Rosli Othman/Shutterstock Six months on from the UN’s landmark 1.5°C report, which urged immediate global action to prevent global warming from rising beyond this dangerous level, the Committee on Climate Change (CCC) has advised the UK g...

Erectile dysfunction drug could treat heart failure – new study PureRadiancePhoto/Shutterstock  In the 1990s, the US drug firm Pfizer was developing drugs to treat angina. During early trials of these drugs, male participants reported a striking ...

A drug used to treat erectile dysfunction has been found by University of Manchester scientists to slow or even reverse the progression of heart failure in sheep. ...

Urine testing may be as effective as the smear test at preventing cervical cancer, according to new research by University of Manchester scientists. ...

New research has found it is not just what you eat, but when you eat that is important, knowledge which could improve the health of shift workers and people suffering from jet lag. ...

New findings about a fatal form of blood cancer could aid the development of new drugs with significantly less harmful side effects than existing chemotherapy. ...

Scientists could help match cancer patients with no other treatment options to clinical trials with experimental medicines, by analysing the genetic faults in a sample of their blood, according to research published in Nature Medicine. ...

New three-dimensional imaging of the human placenta has been developed to help understand the reasons for fetal growth restriction – a condition which affects thousands in the UK alone. ...

Andy Burnham, Mayor of Greater Manchester, has attended an event to mark the end of a major project which has researched the experiences of marginalised young people in ten countries across the EU. ...

A new spectacular jumping spider has been discovered and named in honour of Eric Carle, the famous author of children’s book The Very Hungry Caterpillar. ...

A University of Manchester historian is to study the influence of Erle Stanley Gardner –creator of renowned TV attorney Perry Mason - in a bid to reveal the roots of our fascination with stories about wrongful criminal conviction. ...

New research charts the history of the Greenland Ice Sheet and its impact on global sea levels throughout history to present day. ...

Results from a large clinical trial indicate that patients with rheumatoid arthritis are likely to experience the same level of cardiovascular benefits from statins as other individuals, without additional risks. The findings appear in Arthritis & Rh...

A shocking report has found that the majority of ethnic minority workers have experienced racial harassment at work in the last five years, and have been subjected to unfair treatment by their employer because of their race. ...

A Diabetes UK-funded study led by University of Manchester researchwers has found that women developing Type 2 diabetes no longer experience a greater increase in their risk of cardiovascular disease than men who develop the condition. ...

An international team of geographers has found indications that the climate we have in Europe today began 5000 years ago, hidden in the shells of mussel shrimps. ...

The University of Manchester has launched its ambitious vision to help ensure the city is a leader in the fourth industrial revolution in the same way it was a pioneer for the first phase of industrialisation. ...

An academic from The University of Manchester has won a 2019 Guardian University Award - which recognise the inspiring and groundbreaking projects that UK universities have worked on in the past year - for her website exploring the untold stories of ...

Could turning the periodic table on its head make some important aspects easier to understand and enthuse more people to study chemistry? This question is posed in an article published in Nature Chemistry  by chemists and psychologists at Nottingham,...

A runner based at The University of Manchester is almost a third of the way to completing his epic challenge of running 5km every day for a year. ...