Articles tagged with 'sciences' | University of Manchester

University of Manchester - Archive sciences

2026
03
November
2026
| 06:00 Europe/London
Physicists have found evidence of a particle decay so rare that it is expected to occur only around once in every 10 billion ‘beauty’ particles.
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02
November
2026
| 13:45 Europe/London
Birds may not always take the flight path that physics suggests is the perfect landing, at the safest and lowest possible speed, using the least energy, according to new research.
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23
October
2026
| 14:50 Europe/London
The Business Secretary Jonathan Reynolds MP and Small Business Minister Lord Leong have visited Sister, Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ and Bruntwood SciTech’s innovation district, to meet some of the businesses collaborating and growing in …
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23
October
2026
| 14:50 Europe/London
An interdisciplinary team of Manchester researchers will lead a major international project investigating how urbanisation, changing landscapes and human behaviour are influencing the spread of mosquito-borne diseases including chikungunya, Zika and …
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23
October
2026
| 10:00 Europe/London
University of Manchester chemists have isolated the oxidised form of the landmark uranium molecule uranocene and show that, in this form, electron sharing between uranium and carbon prevents the molecule from changing shape.
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22
October
2026
| 20:23 Europe/London
The new RFD4-Proteina unified generative model for protein design – created by the Institute for Protein Design (IPD) in collaboration with NVIDIA – uses advanced AI to generate entirely new protein sequences and structures, achieving computational …
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21
October
2026
| 12:14 Europe/London
Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ has been selected to establish a new ELIAS Node, becoming only the second UK institution to join the European AI innovation network, alongside Cambridge.
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20
October
2026
| 06:30 Europe/London
Professor Ashley Blom, Vice-President and Dean of the Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, will leave Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ next year to take up the role of Provost at the University of Melbourne.
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02
October
2026
| 11:53 Europe/London
University of Manchester undergraduate has won second place in the Cambridge Edge AI Innovation for Sustainability Challenge 2026 with a concept designed to improve early wildfire detection whilst reducing reliance on energy-intensive data centres. …
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02
October
2026
| 10:00 Europe/London
University of Manchester chemists help create the first isolable uranium–carbon triple bond, giving scientists a clearer view of how uranium shares electrons with carbon and opening new routes for fundamental actinide chemistry.
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16
September
2026
| 14:10 Europe/London
Dr Rebecca Tyne has secured a prestigious European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant to launch VISTA, an ambitious project that aims to create the first overarching picture of how gases move through the Earth's crust. By combining ultra-precise …
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16
September
2026
| 10:00 Europe/London
Astronomers have confirmed that one of the fastest-changing stars ever observed has entered a new stage of its evolution, offering a rare opportunity to watch a star's life unfold on human timescales.
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14
September
2026
| 21:18 Europe/London
Scientists have used X-ray images taken during a rocket flight to capture metal dendrites in microgravity for the first time, revealing insights that could improve manufacturing processes such as casting, welding and metal 3D printing.
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14
September
2026
| 09:43 Europe/London
Secondary school pupils from across Greater Manchester have designed, built and competed with their own mine-detecting robots in Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ's annual Manchester Minesweeper competition
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10
September
2026
| 01:00 Europe/London
A “peculiar� new species of Jurassic squid-like animal has been unearthed in Wyoming, USA, following the discovery of two exceptionally rare fossils dating back around 160 million years.
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09
September
2026
| 16:15 Europe/London
AI engineers often recognise ethical risks associated with the systems they build, but many lack the authority, incentives and organisational support needed to act on them, according to new research from Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ. 
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09
September
2026
| 09:27 Europe/London
Manchester researchers will lead a new £12.6 million UK research programme launched to accelerate the development of next-generation photonic and quantum technologies.
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03
September
2026
| 09:56 Europe/London
There is no credible scenario in which expansion at Heathrow can go ahead without blowing a hole in the UK’s legally binding climate targets, new modelling published by the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research at Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ …
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01
September
2026
| 15:02 Europe/London
Astronomers have directly detected an extremely faint radio signal from hydrogen gas billions of light years away, demonstrating a powerful new way to map the Universe.
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26
August
2026
| 15:20 Europe/London
A University of Manchester astronomer is helping to lead NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope mission, which is due to launch from Kennedy Space Center in Florida on 30 August 2026 aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket.
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Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ community has expressed its sincere thanks for overwhelming show of support by leading figures from science, culture and public life in support of Jodrell Bank.
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13
August
2026
| 10:58 Europe/London
Researchers have shown that unusual thorium clusters respond to magnetic fields in a fundamentally different way than expected, helping to explain a long-running disagreement between experiments and computer models.
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06
August
2026
| 16:19 Europe/London
Scientists at Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ will contribute specialist expertise in enzyme engineering and therapeutic oligonucleotides to a new £50 million research centre aiming to improve understanding and treatment of mitochondrial diseases.
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05
August
2026
| 14:00 Europe/London
Collecting rainwater from rooftops and using it to spray buildings during hot weather could help cities cut air conditioning use, lower urban temperatures and lessen the impact of heatwaves, according to new research from The University of …
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29
July
2026
| 16:00 Europe/London
Scientists at Imperial College London and Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ have developed a promising new way to create safer and more effective treatments for life-threatening fungal infections.
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28
July
2026
| 11:19 Europe/London
Researchers at Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ have revealed how intense electronic excitation can trigger rapid structural changes in metals – without heating the atomic lattice – offering new insight into ultrafast materials behaviour.
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23
July
2026
| 09:34 Europe/London
Chemists have demonstrated that neutral chalcogen-bond donors can induce asymmetry in chemical reactions, addressing a challenge that has limited the development of chalcogen-bonding catalysis.
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22
July
2026
| 21:39 Europe/London
Extending late-night alcohol sales have been associated with increases in alcohol-related harm, according to a new study which examined the effects of licensing changes in Aberdeen and Glasgow. 
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17
July
2026
| 14:35 Europe/London
Manchester researcher joins national network of leading specialists helping shape the future of UK science, innovation and industrial growth.
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15
July
2026
| 16:00 Europe/London
Data collected at Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ's Air Quality Supersite has contributed to a major international study showing that increasing amounts of desert dust from North Africa are reaching Europe, with implications for public health and solar …
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