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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.

An OU academic has been awarded over £330,000 to research symmetries in mathematics.

Research has revealed that romance is found more in routine daily interactions than in sweeping gestures performed on Valentine’s Day.

The OU has received funding to expand the use of Open Educational Resources (OER) and to share best practice case studies.

A research project which will develop a system to detect coronavirus in sewerage systems has received funding from the OU’s Rapid Response to Coronavirus scheme.

OU researchers have received funding to construct a digital historical archive of the European musical world by using innovative artificial intelligence.