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An OU PhD student questioned MP’s about plastic pollution at Voice of the Future 2021.

As people in the UK were settling down to watch the late evening news on February 28, a fresh news story, quite literally, appeared in the night sky. A large and very bright fireball was seen over southern England and northern France at 21:54 GMT. 

Academics at the OU have launched the first observatory to track false and corrective information about COVID-19.

An OU PhD student has won the Bronze award for Physics for her research findings into rare kinds of stars at STEM for Britain on Thursday 4 March 2021.

An OU academic is a co-investigator on a newly funded research project, which will bring historical artefacts to life.

Finance ministers usually rejoice when businesses and employees alike both plead for a signature scheme to be extended. But for UK chancellor Rishi Sunak, demands to continue the country’s Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme, AKA the furlough, beyond March are as financially uncomfortable as they are politically hard to resist.

A paper published in Geophysical Research Letters has reported the detection of locally enhanced magnetism, suggestive of unusual iron-rich rocks on Mercury.

OU research published in the Journal of Medicine, Science and Law brings fresh input into the ongoing debate over reforms to the historic jury system in Scotland.

If there is a God who created the entire universe and ALL of its laws of physics, does God follow God’s own laws?

A new research grant will make it possible to create maps of ozone and dust found on Mars as part of the ExoMars mission.