A 900-year-old cosmic mystery surrounding the origins of a famous supernova first spotted over China in 1181AD has finally been solved, according to an international…
Transporting a single brick to Mars can cost more than a million British pounds – making the future construction of a Martian colony seem prohibitively…
New research from The University of Manchester suggests using a strategy linked to cooperative game playing known as ‘game theory’ in order to maximize the…
First commercial pour of engineered graphene concrete takes place in UK using Manchester technology. A joint venture between graphene specialists at The University of Manchester…
A group of astronomers has discovered 8 millisecond pulsars located within dense clusters of stars, known as “globular clusters,” using South Africa’s MeerKAT radio telescope….
Scientists have for the first time captured the complex dynamics of particle movement in granular materials, helping to explain why mixed nuts often see the…
Nuclear fusion is the process that powers the Sun and all other stars. During fusion, the nuclei of two atoms are brought close enough together…
Results published on March 11, 2021, show it is possible to identify Parkinson’s Disease based on compounds found on the surface of skin. The findings…
An international research team including members from The University of Manchester has shown that a rapidly rotating neutron star is at the core of a…
Water vapor from ambient air will spontaneously condense inside porous materials or between touching surfaces. But with the liquid layer being only a few molecules…
Researchers discover new family of quasiparticles in graphene-based materials. A group of researchers led by Sir Andre Geim and Dr. Alexey Berdyugin at The University…
The LHCb collaboration has observed an exotic particle made up of four charm quarks for the first time. The Large Hadron Collider Beauty (LHCb) collaboration…
An international collaboration of scientists has recorded the most accurate confirmation to date for one of the cornerstones of Einstein’s theory of general relativity, ‘the…
An investigation into one of the current great mysteries of astronomy has come to the fore thanks to a four-year observing campaign conducted at the…
A team of researchers based in Manchester, the Netherlands, Singapore, Spain, Switzerland and the USA has published a new review on a field of computer…
An international research project has revealed the highest levels of microplastic ever recorded on the seafloor, with up to 1.9 million pieces in a thin…
A psychological theory could kickstart improvements in the way robots are able to walk, thanks to a University of Manchester study. The study — a…
Biologists from The University of Manchester have explained for the first time why having a good night’s sleep really could prepare us for the rigors…