Over 1700 children in Manchester will spend Xmas homeless
A shocking 2,684 children in the North West with over 1,700 in Manchester alone will wake up homeless and in temporary accommodation this Christmas,...
Chancellor announces £4m for historic Jodrell Bank observatory
Jodrell Bank has been awarded £4m in the Autumn Statement to go towards a new project to promote the historical importance of the scientific...
Nanobots pass first stage in ‘fantastic voyage’ from fiction to fact
A team of scientists have created a new generation of tiny remote controlled nanorobots which could one day allow doctors to diagnose disease and...
Manchester set bring its data research expertise to The Alan Turing Institute
The University of Manchester is one of four institutions announced today as joining the Alan Turing Institute.
Manchester, alongside Leeds, Newcastle and Queen Mary University...
Salford at forefront of UK space robotics
THE UNIVERSITY of Salford is to be at the forefront of the UK’s new drive to develop space-focused artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics, as...
Developed in Manchester:Photo-powered app could help farmers diagnose crop diseases themselves
Developed in Manchester, the new app uses a simple photograph of a leaf to provide near-instant automatic diagnosis of diseased crops could prove a major...
Unleashing the human voice can help us banish the blues according to an Eccles...
UNLEASHING the human voice can help us banish the blues, according to a community-based research experiment in Salford.
Singers from the Eccles Daytime Choir were...
Graphene water filter turns whisky clear
Manchester's miracle substance is in the headlines as Manchester scientists have used a graphene water filter to turn whisky clear.
Previously graphene-oxide membranes were shown to be...
How Frog Poo test is dung deal to give amphibian crisis the skids
A new tool has been developed by scientists at The University of Manchester to help reverse the decline in some of the world’s most...
Do you believe in ghosts? Don’t be scared, you’re not alone
Belief in the spooky and scary paranormal is widespread within modern society according to opinion polls and new research from Manchester Metropolitan University is...