University of Manchester - Archive (sciences,science)
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2022
05
July
2022
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16:00
Europe/London
The world’s most powerful particle accelerator is ready to start delivering proton collisions to experiments at a record-breaking energy level after three years of upgrade and maintenance work....
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05
July
2022
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10:22
Europe/London
The Large Hadron Collider beauty (LHCb) collaboration has announced the discovery of three new exotic particles....
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04
July
2022
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09:34
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Jodrell Bank’s ambitious £21.5m development, the First Light Pavilion was officially opened at a special event on the summer solstice, Tuesday 21 June in the company of over 100 esteemed guests....
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30
June
2022
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08:30
Europe/London
A new animation has highlighted how The University of Manchester’s research on microplastic pollution in rivers has helped to drive investigations into the behaviour of water companies, and the roles of regulators in tacking illegal activity. ...
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23
June
2022
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11:51
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Two University of Manchester engineers, Professors Caroline Jay and Aline Miller, have been honoured with inclusion in the Top 50 Women in Engineering (WE50) for their stellar contributions and impact in engineering....
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22
June
2022
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13:42
Europe/London
Researchers have called for a more sustainable approach to the UK’s National Space Strategy in a new publication from The University of Manchester, On Space....
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21
June
2022
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15:02
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The University of Manchester’s expertise in advanced materials and robotic systems will play a key role in driving a revolution in UK manufacturing, according to graphene start-up pioneer Dr Vivek Koncherry....
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20
June
2022
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13:57
Europe/London
An international team of astronomers have for the first time combined the power of 64 radio telescope dishes to detect the faint signatures of neutral hydrogen gas across cosmological scales. ...
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15
June
2022
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10:55
Europe/London
Astronomers in the UK announce today that have established how galaxies like our own Milky Way formed over 10 billion years of cosmic time through an abundance of separate galaxies colliding together....
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10
June
2022
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16:25
Europe/London
Jodrell Bank’s newest attraction, the First Light Pavilion opened its doors to visitors for the first time last weekend, with over 1000 people exploring the stunning new building over the Jubilee weekend....
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08
June
2022
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16:19
Europe/London
The Great Science Share for Schools (GSSfS) is a national campaign to elevate the prominence of science in the classroom....
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08
June
2022
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14:31
Europe/London
The Department of Computer Science at The University of Manchester is thrilled to have received recognition for the MSc in Advanced Computer Science....
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08
June
2022
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14:25
Europe/London
Students at The University of Manchester will get a rare opportunity to engage in a discussion with the Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, in an online Q&A session on Friday, 10 June 2022.The UoM Ukrainian Society, the MOBILISE research team (...
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07
June
2022
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15:38
Europe/London
Three scientists from The University of Manchester have been awarded with prestigious prizes by The Royal Society of Chemistry for their research. Professors Sarah Haigh, Jason Micklefield and Chris Hardacre have all been honoured and will each recei...
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30
May
2022
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16:01
Europe/London
An international team of scientists have discovered a strange radio emitting neutron star, which rotates extremely slowly, completing one rotation every 76 seconds....
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25
May
2022
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08:26
Europe/London
Watercycle Technologies, a spin-out from The University of Manchester, has secured initial funding for an innovative technology that uses advanced graphene-based membranes and systems to extract lithium and other minerals from brines and water soluti...
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23
May
2022
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11:01
Europe/London
Manchester experts are designing AI-powered machines tough enough to work safely in hostile hotspots
A new generation of smart robots is being developed at The University of Manchester that can be trusted to think and act for themselves in some of the most hazardous places on Earth - and beyond....
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18
May
2022
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16:57
Europe/London
On Tuesday, 10 May we were joined by staff, students, alumni and friends from around the world to celebrate the incredible and inspiring work of our University Community at the Making a Difference Awards 2022.The awards highlighted the extensive rang...
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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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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
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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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20
April
2022
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15:26
Europe/London
The Graphene Engineering Innovation Centre’s ecosystem for industrial engagement continues to grow with three more Tier 2 partners being added to the roster in recent weeks, while existing partners have also committed to the facility by renewing term...
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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
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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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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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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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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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