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This week The University of Manchester has revealed a comprehensive report and plan to address key issues facing humanity as set-out by the UN. ...

The University of Manchester has moved up two places to reach its highest ever position in this year’s QS World University Rankings   ...

A new facility to transform manufacturing processes and make them more environmentally friendly, has opened today (13 June 2019), as part of a new Local Industrial Strategy for Greater Manchester. Based at the Manchester Institute of Biotechnology...

Recession-related increases in suicide have previously been reported globally. New research has shown an equivalent rise in suicide by mental health patients, particularly men aged 45-54. ...

What a difference a year makes. This time in 2018, the long hot summer was weeks away. Saddleworth Moor was not yet on fire. Greta Thunberg’s climate strike had not begun, let alone brought millions onto the streets. The IPCC’s 1.5 degree report had ...

Scientists at The University of Manchester are developing a smart phone application connected to goggles which flash light at a special frequency to tune patients’ brains in a ground-breaking treatment for chronic pain. ...

A team of scientists at The University of Manchester has solved a key flaw in solar panels after 40 years of research around the world. ...

Work led by Professor Vaskar Saha, a paediatrician from The University of Manchester, means that around 80% of children with the most common childhood cancer are now likely to survive following treatment at major centres across India, thanks to his r...

Self-harm in middle-aged men increased significantly following the 2008 financial crisis, according to a study led by researchers at The University of Manchester.. ...

How are your legs? Recovered yet? It’s been almost a week since the University’s now legendary Purple Wave took to the streets of Manchester once more for the city’s 10k and half-marathon versions of the Great Run. While those who took part have b...

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 ...

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. ...

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. ...

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. ...

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. ...

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

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 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 ...

The University of Manchester ranks as the best higher education institution (HEI) in Europe – and in the top three globally – for its social and environmental impact across its full range of functions. ...

Professor Douglas Kell and colleagues have developed novel technology that identifies the most effective antibiotic to kill organisms in urinary tract infections ...

Restriction or inhalation of common sugar could one day treat a range of respiratory diseases, according to new research led by University of Manchester biologists. ...

Dinosaurs went extinct at the end of the Cretaceous Period 65 million years ago. Now scientists have found extraordinary evidence which documents the colossal asteroid impact event. ...

The University of Manchester has announced its participation in ambitious regional initiatives to reduce carbon emissions and plastic use.   ...

Children monitored regularly for height and weight from an early age are less likely to be overweight according to research by University of Manchester and Oxford experts. ...