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The Butterfly Conservation charity’s big butterfly count asks the UK public to record butterflies wherever they see them each summer. In 2024 so far, sightings are the lowest in the survey’s 14-year history.

Thanks to a new Galaxy Zoo project launched today, the public can help identify the shapes of thousands of galaxies in images taken by ESA’s Euclid space telescope. These classifications will help scientists answer questions about how the shapes of galaxies have changed over time, and whatcaused these changes and why.

The top 10 innovations that researchers at The Open University (OU) and Vanderbilt University believe will influence the future of education, are outlined in a new report now live.

In a significant step towards improving pandemic preparedness in Africa, a project at The Open University titled "Strengthening and Reimagining Health-Industry Policy Linkages for Pandemic Preparedness in Africa" has just received funding of £200,000.

The Open University has secured €238K in funding from the European Union.

Open University researchers will bring expertise in machine learning and citizen science to the European Space Agency Euclid space telescope designed to help us to better understand dark matter.

An OU researcher took part in the Lewes Football Club leg of Pedal for Paris to advise on the effects of extreme heat and climate change on sport.

OU researchers are part of a team who have just published a paper in Nature which describes new findings about the structure of ice in space.

The Open University has received a very encouraging response to its call for entries from UK charities and Milton Keynes businesses to take part in the Open Societal Challenges ‘Challenge Us!’ competition.

In her inaugural lecture on 20 June 2024, Clara Mancini, Professor of Animal-Computer Interaction in the OU’s Faculty of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics, presented her research journey in the field of Animal-Computer Interaction, shared with colleagues from across the world, to develop the art and science of designing technology for and with animals.