It is a great honour to be asked to take on the role of BSMM President, and I very much look forward to working with the Society to achieve its goals Dr Riina Richardson One of the UK’s leading ...

New research by Dr Laure Humbert from The University of Manchester and Dr Raphaële Balu from Sorbonne University has revealed how Britain’s vital contribution to the French Resistance during the ...

For ten long years, Australia earned an unenviable reputation as one of the world’s climate change ‘laggards’. From 2013 to 2022 its governments weakened environmental rules, cut renewable energy ...

Applications for students starting in September 2025 are now closed. Applications for students starting in September 2026 will open in March 2026. Please note that the information below relates to ...

An innovative study by University of Manchester researchers has shown that mothers’ feelings of being overwhelmed and unhappiness, not fathers’, are directly associated with their children’s feelings ...

Three scientists have been awarded the 2025 Nobel prize in physiology or medicine for discovering how the body stops its own immune system from turning against itself.Shimon Sakaguchi from Osaka ...

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Explore our campus, meet lecturers and current students, and learn more about what it's like to study at Manchester. The Department of Physics and Astronomy at Manchester is one of the largest and ...

The University of Manchester has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the University of Washington in the US.The strategic partnership will help to foster interdisciplinary research ...

An AI-powered hearing test is reliably able to check your hearing on a computer or smart phone without clinical supervision according to a study by University of Manchester researchers.The high-tech ...

OUR MOST RECENT MESSAGE TO STUDENTS CAN BE FOUND ON OUR STUDENT NEWS PAGES. (3, OCTOBER, 2025)We are shocked and horrified by the events at the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation Synagogue this morning.

Commercial sunbeds should be banned in the UK, argue experts from the University of Manchester and Christie NHS Foundation Trust in The BMJ today.Using sunbeds causes melanoma and other skin cancers, ...