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OU academic discovers potential breakthrough in battle against antibiotic resistance in relation to superbug MRSA

An academic from The Open University (OU) has uncovered a potential breakthrough in the prevention of antibiotic resistance in relation to MRSA, and other hospital pathogens, in an unlikely source – a historic brine bath in Droitwich Spa. Dr Michael Macey, a lecturer at the OU and specialist in extremophiles (organisms that thrive in extreme […]

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The OU’s Centre for Electronic Imaging celebrates its 20th anniversary

The OU’s Centre for Electronic Imaging celebrates its 20th anniversary

On the 4th September 2024, The Centre for Electronic Imaging (CEI) held an event at the OU to mark two decades of pioneering research and development in advanced electronic image sensing technologies. The CEI is a unique industrial/academic partnership between Teledyne-e2v and the Open University. Based at the OU since 2008, the CEI has grown […]

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BepiColombo’s most astounding images yet highlight fourth Mercury flyby

BepiColombo’s most astounding images yet highlight fourth Mercury flyby

The ESA/JAXA BepiColombo mission has successfully completed its fourth of six gravity assist flybys at Mercury overnight on 4/5 September, capturing images that include two special impact craters as it uses the planet’s gravity to steer itself on course to enter orbit around Mercury in November 2026. The closest approach took place at 22:48 BST […]

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OU to host The Business Agility Conference UK

This September, The Open University (OU) is to host an in-person event at its campus, Walton Hall in Milton Keynes, focusing on business agility and the theme of ‘Leading through Complexity’. The Business Agility Conference UK is a collaboration between the OU, The Business Agility Institute UK and The Cynefin Company. Pre-conference workshops are taking […]

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Mini lab designed by OU scientists secures NASA ride to the Moon

Mini lab designed by OU scientists secures NASA ride to the Moon

A miniaturised laboratory created at The Open University (OU) will fly to the lunar South Polar region in the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Prospect package in search of volatiles, including water ice, as part of NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services initiative. NASA has selected the commercial vendor for this flight opportunity in the 2027-2028 timeframe […]

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Unravelling the Mysteries of a Gassy Space Rock: Phaethon’s Dual Nature

Unravelling the Mysteries of a Gassy Space Rock: Phaethon’s Dual Nature

Phaethon is a celestial body that defies definition. It isn’t quite an asteroid but isn’t exactly a comet either. It has properties of both bodies, being rocky in composition – a trait of asteroids but behaving like comet because of gas emission and dust release as it nears the Sun. This curious mix of characteristics—part […]

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The JUICE spacecraft buzzes the Earth-Moon tower in world’s first dual flyby on its way to Jupiter

The JUICE spacecraft buzzes the Earth-Moon tower in world’s first dual flyby on its way to Jupiter

Space researchers from the Open University Atmospheric Research and Surface Exploration group, led by Prof. Manish Patel, and the Centre for Electronic Imaging, watched in trepidation as the Jupiter and Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) spacecraft flew back past the Moon and the Earth on its long voyage to Jupiter.  In a world-first space manoeuvre, JUICE […]

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The Open University picks up two prestigious teaching awards

The Open University picks up two prestigious teaching awards

The Open University is celebrating after discovering it has won two prestigious teaching awards run by Advance HE – one being an individual award and the other a team success. Advance HE is a member-led charity that works in collaboration with partners across the globe to improve higher education for staff, students and society. It has […]

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Euclid Galaxy Zoo – help us classify the shapes of galaxies

Euclid Galaxy Zoo – help us classify the shapes of galaxies

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 what caused these changes and why. In its mission […]

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Dark matter space telescope project kicks off with powerful new computing

Dark matter space telescope project kicks off with powerful new computing

OU 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. According to Professor Stephen Serjeant, Professor of Astronomy at the OU and part of the space telescope project which launched in February 2024, the team can now […]

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