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7th May 2012

Private sector avoids lion’s share of data breach fines

Claims that the private sector has “relatively free rein”, largely unpunished for data breaches
7th May 2012

Answer to obesity in new weight loss drugs

“Statistics show that at least one in three adults in the US is classed as obese”
7th May 2012

Synthetic genetics – XNA

UK researchers have developed ‘synthetic DNA’
6th May 2012

“I went to school and it went downhill from there…”

Meet the maverick lecturer who will head Manchester University’s new University College for Interdisciplinary Learning
3rd May 2012

MBS ventures further – students winning £4K

Ever wanted to own your own business but fear you don’t have the capital to do it?
30th April 2012

Final year dissertation students faced absent supervisors

History department dismisses claims
30th April 2012

Manchester research finds hope for bipolar treatment

New research determines why lithium salts help bipolar suffers
30th April 2012

‘Revenge porn’ website shut down

“The Net’s most hated man” has a sudden change of conscience
30th April 2012

Diabetes caused by dieting during pregnancy

“expectant mothers who diet during pregnancy could well be risking their unborn child’s future health and quality of life”
30th April 2012

New technique to determine source of greenhouse gasses

New step to decipher human accountability for global warming

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23rd April 2012

New funding award for Manchester nuclear power

£4m awarded to advance the UK’s nuclear industry
23rd April 2012

Mac attack

Infected Apples leave users with a bad taste in their mouth
23rd April 2012

UK to tap into Iceland’s volcanic energy in European Supergrid

“the project would be the longest and one of the most ambitious interconnectors in the world”
23rd April 2012

Late Manchester peace activist has journals published

A Manchester Metropolitan student killed in the Gaza strip has a collection of photos, poems and journal extracts published
23rd April 2012

Black youth unemployment in the UK higher than in the US

Social inequalities in the UK are likely to worsen as a result of public sector cuts, Manchester study claims
23rd April 2012

Invisible Children – a visible business?

“Increasing skepticism has mounted, as the funds generated from the Kony 2012 campaign are currently unpublished”
23rd April 2012

Manchester student starts up music video production company

“if they don’t want to employ me then I’ll go it alone and do what I want to do.”
17th April 2012

“He made his fortune in Africa, back in the twenty-tens…”

Wall Street in the twenties, Silicon Valley in the late nineties and China in the noughties – these are places that characterise their respective decades’ vast wealth creation. Will Africa characterise this decade?
16th April 2012

Football is good entertainment but bad business

: Another season, another club goes into administration. As football becomes more connected with external business, football clubs are recklessly taking on board costs they simply cannot afford.
21st March 2012

Lemn Sissay: Let there be peace at University Place

Ruth Dacey meets renowned poet Lemn Sissay this week and discusses his new work Let There Be Peace Lemn Sissay (MBE) award-winning British author and broadcaster last Tuesday unveiled his two-storey-high work entitled ‘Let There Be Peace,’ a poem which had been meticulously hand-painted over five days by signwriter Gerard Brown. The piece adorns an […]