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The NHS in England has saved an additional 1,600 patients with severe injuries since major trauma centres were established in 2012. ...

Around the world it seems far-right groups can infiltrate the mainstream regardless of a given country’s political present or past. The question is, then, how do they do it? The far-right movement Golden Dawn, based in Greece, is a prime example o...

The North West Consortium Doctoral Training Partnership (NWCDTP), led by The University of Manchester, is one of 10 consortia who will share more than £170 million in funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) over eight years. ...

The University of Manchester has reached its highest-ever position in the Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU). ...

A leading scientist from The University of Manchester has been chosen for a coveted national award by leading sight loss charity the Macular Society. ...

Apparently, I am BAME. This places me as a contender for The Guardian’s BAME awards or the Jhalak prize, both aimed at BAME writers like myself. Ah, BAME – this acronym, which means black, asian and minority ethnic, joins many other appellations offe...

The afterglow of France winning the 2018 World Cup tournament on July 15 should be gone by now. But the arguments over France’s 23-man squad, with as many as 15 players with African roots, rage on. The victory has ignited social commentaries on race,...

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 student from The University of Manchester is bidding for success on one of the biggest stages in world athletics. ...

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. ...

Prospect Planes will be unveiled on Friday, 17 August as part of The Hexagon Experiment series of events at the Great Exhibition of the North in partnership with the National Graphene Institute and Brighter Sound. The fascinating video art project...

Pressure on British Muslim parents to counter extremism in their own families is having a detrimental effect, according to new research by Manchester academic Madeline-Sophie Abbas. ...

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 building where Nobel Prize-winner Ernest Rutherford discovered the structure of the atom in 1911 has been placed in the country’s top ten sites for ‘power, protest and progress’ by Historic England. ...

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.   ...

Around 138 million women are affected by a distressing but treatable fungal infection world-wide, according to a research review by University of Manchester scientists. ...

The recent heatwave and drought could be having a deeper, more negative effect on soil than we first realised say scientists. ...

As a scientist, I was recently involved in bringing my work to the big screen. This was not a Hollywood sci-fi blockbuster but “big screen” in the literal sense: an art production about science that used the Lovell radio telescope, a 3,200-ton steel ...

Several projects at The University of Manchester’s Urban Institute are showing how improvements in the efficiency of household energy use can result in benefits for human health and well-being, economic productivity, environmental quality and ur...

Taking place across six Friday evenings in Newcastle and Gateshead this summer as part of the Great Exhibition of the North, The Hexagon Experiment will feature live music, conversations and original commissions from some of the North’s most exciting...

The Greater Manchester Tackling Hateful Extremism and Promoting Social Cohesion Commission, which was set up by Mayor Andy Burnham following the Manchester Arena attack last year, has published its findings in a new report. ...

Scientists have used powerful X-rays to peer inside the skeletons of some of our oldest vertebrate relatives, solving a 160-year-old mystery about the origin of our skeletons.   ...

One of the world’s most spectacular frogs has been identified as a new species after 20 years of painstaking research at The University of Manchester. ...

The University of Manchester’s Board of Governors has approved a proposal to seek a corporate partner to develop its North Campus site in Manchester city centre into a world-class innovation district over the next 20 years. ...

An estimated 600 stillbirths annually could be prevented if maternity units adopt national best practice according to an independent evaluation which includes University of Manchester experts. ...

The founder of EnviroSAR, whose expertise was used as two wildfires devastated moorland areas this summer in the northwest of England, is aiming to expand research and development so her company can better monitor wildfires and restoration at a natio...

Thousands of tributes left by the public to remember those killed or injured in the Manchester Arena terrorist attack will be preserved for the future, thanks to a grant made possible by National Lottery players, and with the involvement of Universit...

University of Manchester and Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust scientists have developed a lamp which could treat chronic ulcers with light. ...

A study of 16 Nigerian women living with domestic abuse has shown how they are too frightened of being deported to ask for help from the UK authorities. ...

The University has signed up to the United Nations-supported Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI), becoming the first English Russell Group University to join the organisation. ...