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Has graphene been a resounding success or a damp squib? As is so often the case, the reality is somewhere in between.

Twenty years ago this October, two physicists at the University of Manchester, Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov, published a groundbreaking paper on the “electric field effect in atomically thin carbon films”. Their work described the extraordinary electronic properties of graphene, a crystalline form of carbon equivalent to a single layer…

AMR occurs when bacteria and diseases evolve to no longer respond to drugs designed to treat the infection

Reptile had just eaten a fish before it was captured and killed as offering to crocodile god Sobek, scientists say

It’s natural to miss friends and family when studying away from home, but thankfully there are many formal and informal support networks you can tap into to get over that hump

Engineers say they have created a design for a robot capable of jumping 400 feet into the air — and it could one day be heading for space.

Exclusive: Federation of Clinical Registries warns new system still exposes patients’ private records to further criminal hacks

Neighbouring institutions submit more than 100 legal challenges against use of Greater Manchester trademarks

Contrary to other recent research, study finds no evidence of decline – but conclusions disputed by other fertility experts

Exams have been disrupted at Whitworth Hall after protesters barricaded themselves in the building

Scientists engineer the 'purest ever silicon' to build reliable qubits that can be manufactured to the size of a pinhead on a chip and power million-qubit quantum computers in the future.