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Hardware upgrades at OpenScience Observatory in Tenerife
The OpenScience Observatory’s Tenerife facilities finally received their long-awaited hardware upgrade, one year late due to COVID travel...
Floodplain Meadows Partnership, winner of Ecover’s ‘Fertilise the Future Fund’
The OU-led Floodplain Meadows Partnership (FMP) has been crowned UK winner of Ecover’s ‘Fertilise the Future Fund’. Beating...
School of E&I receives Athena SWAN Silver Award
The School of Engineering and Innovation, STEM is delighted to announce that it has received an Athena SWAN Silver Award following its recent...
Success at the Learning on Screen Awards
Congratulations to Professor of Planetary Science and Exploration Mahesh Anand and the team which produced '8 Days: to the Moon and...
PhD student Hannah Sargeant makes Forbes 30 under 30 list
We want to congratulate School of Physical Sciences final year PhD student Hannah Sargeant for being selected to be on the Forbes 30...
Ice, sand and the spiders from Mars in the laboratory
Researchers from The School of Physical Sciences at The Open University (OU) have recreated the formation of spider-like patterns on Mars in their...
A team of UK scientists, guided by meteor specialists, have recovered pieces of an extremely rare meteorite, a type which has never fallen anywhere in the UK before
Fragments of a fireball, which recently fell to Earth, have been located in Winchcombe, Gloucestershire and are now in the care of Museum...
3D maps of ozone and dust on Mars
A new research grant will make it possible to create maps of ozone and dust found on Mars as part of the ExoMars mission. The mission...
Congratulations to Heidi Thiemann at the Parliamentary & Scientific Committee’s STEM for Britain Awards ceremony
Congratulations to Heidi Thiemann who has just won the Bronze Medal in the Physics category at the 2021 Parliamentary & Scientific Committee’s...
Congratulations to OU Space Science Club
We congratulate the Open University Space Science Club (@space_ou), which has won the National UK Students for the Exploration of Space (UKSEDS)...
In Memoriam: Simon Clark
It is with great sadness that we share the news that our colleague, Simon Clark passed away suddenly last week. Simon was a Senior Lecturer in...
New OU/BBC Series: Gold Town
Dr Julie Robson from EEES has been working alongside colleagues from FASS as an academic consultant on a new OU/BBC series...