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The fate of Geronimo the alpaca was seemingly sealed in the UK’s high court recently when the appeal against an order to slaughter him was rejected.

An OU led project that researches positive practices to support student mental health has just received funding.

The Open University’s award-winning space researchers are to benefit from significant new funding awarded by Research England’s Connecting Capability Fund (CCF) to the Space Research and Innovation Network for Technology (SPRINT) programme.

Open University scientists have received samples from an asteroid which could reveal the secrets to how our Solar System formed.

OU research shows the effects of global dust storms on the atmosphere on Mars.

A team of OU researchers which studied children's experience of death anxiety during COVID-19 has called for early mental health support to address the effects on children.

Research which will explore how people manage multiple conversations across phone apps has received funding.

Research conducted by the OU’s Faculty of Business & Law into online learning in English schools during COVID-19 has found that some innovations adopted have now become “business as usual”.

The Open University is part of a team developing a camera to image a “dynamically new” comet as part of a new mission.

Clapping for the NHS revealed the desire to express gratitude during the pandemic, and now researchers have created a virtual tool to enable people to say thank you more easily.