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Open University lab final destination for extraterrestrial samples that could reveal secrets of the Universe
Scientists from The Open University have today taken delivery of pristine samples from an asteroid which could reveal the secrets to how our Solar...
Applications closed: Lecturer in Environment and Sustainability
Change your career, change lives The Open University is the UK’s largest university, a world leader in flexible part-time education combining a...
New qualification: Single Honours Geology
Discover how our planet works and decipher the clues to its remarkable history. Read the record of past climates, volcanic eruptions, extinction...
Changes in global rainfall in the past give future climate change insight
Open University (OU) researchers from the School of Environment Earth and Ecosystems in the Faculty of Science, Technology, Engineering and...
2021 is the 50th birthday of Systems Thinking teaching at The OU
In the wake of the pandemic, confronted by human-induced climate change and exposure to wide-ranging vulnerabilities within our societies, many...
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...
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...
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...
Professor Mark Brandon awarded MBE
Professor of Polar Oceanography, Mark Brandon has been awarded an MBE in the Queen’s New Year 2021 Honours for services to Polar Science. Mark...
Book chapter is having great impact – December 2020
One of the 'Most talked about articles of 2020' was written by Professor Stephen Potter, Dr Miguel Valdez and Professor Matthew Cook,...