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OU space science expertise is being used to detect counterfeit whiskies posing as Scotch Whisky. Led by Dr Geraint Morgan, from the OU’s School of Physical Sciences, the project is part of the national SPRINT programme, which allows the Scotch Whisky Research Institute access to funded expertise and technology in the Space Instrumentation Discipline at the OU.

An OU researcher has created a bespoke industrial microwave to melt simulants of 50-year-old soil from the Moon to see if the microwave heating method is possible to fabricate building components on the Moon.

OU researchers will highlight migration, citizenship and participation in the context of climate change and the experience of refugees at the Who are we? project symposium at the Tate Modern on from Tuesday 21 to Saturday 25 May.

Recent scary press reports suggest that having your appendix out could triple your risk of getting Parkinson’s disease.

OU researchers have received funding to research the potential for collaborative learning between humans and Artificial Intelligence (AI).

A team of researchers in the OU’s Faculty of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics have received funding to assess the cost of climate change.

The first three Open University students have been recruited for the new Natural Environment Research Council-funded Doctoral Training Partnership (DTP).

For many, the Renaissance was the revival or “rebirth” of Western classical antiquity, associated with great artists painting the Sistine Chapel and the invention of the printing press in Europe.

The question of whether the Internet is being used to reinforce inequality and to silence women online, has been raised in a blog co-authored by Dr Olga Jurasz, OU Senior Lecturer in Law.

Water is essential for life on Earth and is one of our most precious natural resources. But considering how our planet formed, it is quite surprising how much water we still have.