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2022
12
May
2022
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17:20
Europe/London
World-leading experts in AI and data science are set to gather in Manchester – the birthplace of the modern computer and original thought leadership in AI – as they join an international science conference. ...
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12
May
2022
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00:00
Europe/London
The University of Manchester has retained 5th place for research power - the quality and scale of research and impact - in the UK government’s Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2021, the major national exercise to evaluate research activity, which ...
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11
May
2022
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14:18
Europe/London
Last week (6 May) saw a student-led walkathon take place with the aim of raising awareness of the global degradation of one of the Earth’s most essential life-giving attributes – soil....
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10
May
2022
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13:00
Europe/London
The fossilised remains of Chile’s first complete ichthyosaur have been unearthed from a melting glacier deep in the Patagonia area of the South American country....
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06
May
2022
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10:03
Europe/London
The Energy Innovation Agency has officially launched, bringing together world-leading academic, private sector and public sector expertise to help bridge the energy innovation gap and find solutions to make sure Greater Manchester can reach its carb...
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26
April
2022
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10:55
Europe/London
A robot named Lyra has been used to inspect a ventilation duct in Dounreay’s redundant nuclear laboratories and map radioactive materials. Lyra traversed 140m of duct from a single entry point and provided operators with detailed radiological charact...
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19
April
2022
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10:58
Europe/London
Jacques Burgess, Jesy Luyengi and Aneesa Riaz are among the 120 student finalists....
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14
April
2022
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12:06
Europe/London
A fragment of the asteroid that hit the Earth 66 million years ago and led to the extinction of the dinosaurs, and the first ever fossilised remains of a dinosaur killed by the asteroid impact, are thought to be amongst the latest finds unearthed by ...
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13
April
2022
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14:34
Europe/London
New research from The University of Manchester, in collaboration with Kenyan conservationists and scientists, has examined data from the Critically Endangered Kenyan black rhino populations which suggest that individuals really matter when assessing ...
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12
April
2022
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11:43
Europe/London
PSI, Royce and Discover Materials were in attendance at New Scientist Live 2022....
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12
April
2022
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10:40
Europe/London
More than £15million has been awarded to UK institutions, including The University of Manchester, which are delivering the crucial software ‘brain’ of the world’s largest radio telescope....
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11
April
2022
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10:42
Europe/London
Alexandra Jones was awarded second place in the Dyson Sustainability Award for 'Outstanding research towards a more sustainable future'....
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08
April
2022
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11:11
Europe/London
The Manchester Centre for Robotics and AI brings together projects from across different disciplines....
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08
April
2022
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10:09
Europe/London
A research team led by The University of Manchester’s National Graphene Institute (NGI) has developed a tunable graphene-based platform that allows for fine control over the interaction between light and matter in the terahertz (THz) spectrum, reveal...
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06
April
2022
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12:08
Europe/London
Advanced computing expertise is helping to ensure hospice patients are better protected from COVID-19....
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04
April
2022
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14:36
Europe/London
Dr Vahid Niasar and colleagues will launch the PINCH research project....
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01
April
2022
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12:13
Europe/London
A new study by an international team of astrophysicists, led by the Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics has presented the amazing new discovery of a near-identical twin of Jupiter orbiting a star at a colossal distance of 17,000 light years from Ear...
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31
March
2022
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10:18
Europe/London
The ACM Turing Award, which is often referred to as “The Nobel Prize of Computer Science,” and comes with a $1 million cash prize, funded by Google has been awarded to Professor Jack Dongarra for “pioneering contributions to numerical algorithms and ...
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28
March
2022
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11:41
Europe/London
Dr Senyou An has been recognised for his exceptional PhD research....
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24
March
2022
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10:59
Europe/London
Professor Ferguson's work helped to inform the UK government during the COVID-19 pandemic....
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22
March
2022
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11:24
Europe/London
The ongoing collaboration between The University of Manchester’s graphene scientists and Northern England-based outdoor sports brand inov-8 has been awarded as an ‘outstanding’ example of innovation and wealth creation in the UK by Innovate UK....
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22
March
2022
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11:17
Europe/London
Poor countries reliant on fossil fuel revenues need more time to end production and financial support to do so. ...
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17
March
2022
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14:08
Europe/London
Graphene@Manchester and its partners enjoyed a night of success at the CogX Awards in London, winning four prizes for innovation at a gala evening in London....
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14
March
2022
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13:15
Europe/London
Pupils from 25 primary schools across Greater Manchester will be working scientifically to investigate air quality in their local area next week, thanks to a partnership between The University of Manchester and the Royal Society, the UK’s national ac...
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10
March
2022
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12:16
Europe/London
The University of Manchester’s Jodrell Bank is set to open its highly-anticipated First Light Pavilion on 4 June 2022....
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10
March
2022
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11:00
Europe/London
Astronomers have observed primordial material that may be giving birth to three planetary systems around a binary star in unprecedented detail....
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10
March
2022
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09:01
Europe/London
The Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) is investing £60 million as part of its continued support to the particle physics research community in the UK....
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08
March
2022
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17:20
Europe/London
The University of Manchester is developing a new software engineering course that will help fill a skills gap in the IT sector whilst encouraging lifelong, flexible learning for those already in work....
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08
March
2022
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12:23
Europe/London
The University of Manchester is supporting a Strategic Innovation Fund (SIF) from Office of Gas and Electricity Markets (Ofgem)....
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04
March
2022
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10:06
Europe/London
Astrid Weston, Patrick MacGregor and Ellen Sandford are finalists in the STEM for BRITAIN poster competition....
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