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Keep up to date with the latest news from the School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering.
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Why don’t birds fall over when they jump?
31 Oct 2018
Scientists have been analysing the way birds jump when they take-off to help us understand why they simply don’t just fall over when attempting ...
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Academic calls for carbon capture and storage at Conservative conference
5 Oct 2018
An academic from The University of Manchester has called for a carbon capture and storage industry to be developed in the UK, and for it to be ...
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Topping out ceremony marks key milestone for University landmark engineering development
21 Sep 2018
The Manchester Engineering Campus Development (MECD) – one of the largest capital projects ever undertaken by a UK higher education institution ...
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Expert Comment: Nuclear Energy, why we are all invested in its success or failure
18 Jul 2018
The Dalton Nuclear Institute is taking a revolutionary new approach to nuclear-related research by encouraging a lasting engagement between ...
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Ensuring social justice in AI is essential says new policy report
10 May 2018
The development of new Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology is often subject to bias, and the resulting systems can be discriminatory, meaning more...
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Scientists train spider to jump on demand to discover secrets of animal movement
8 May 2018
Scientists have unlocked the secrets of how some predatory spiders catch their prey while hunting by successfully training one to jump different ...
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Five ways the shipping industry can reduce its carbon emissions
13 Apr 2018
A shipping industry summit is looking into how it can reduce its share of global greenhouse gas emissions in line with the Paris Agreement. But a ...
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Shipping industry needs an alternative to fossil fuels, but which one?
9 Apr 2018
The shipping industry needs to move to renewable and alternative fuels but there is no widely available fuel to manage climate change and local ...
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Students create 3D Printed robot prosthetic limb for amputees
26 Mar 2018
Students at The University of Manchester have designed and built a 3D printed, low-cost robotic prosthetic hand that could provide a much cheaper ...
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