Discovery of new planet “over three times more massive than the Earth”

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OU researchers are part of an international team which has discovered a new planet orbiting the closest single star to the Sun. The paper, co-authored by three OU astronomers: Professor Carole Haswell, Post-Doctoral Researcher Dr John Barnes and former OU PhD student Dr Daniel Staab was published in Nature on Thursday 15 November.

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OU gets £106k from UKRI for a project to assess AI-enhanced grant peer review

The Open University has secured £106,078 in funding to lead a new research project exploring how AI and large language models can transform the peer review process for research grants.