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New AI-enhanced learning about pollinators during Bees Needs Week

13 Jul 2020

As the COVID-19 pandemic puts the focus on literacy and numeracy in home-schooling, KMi researchers have developed technologies to also help families learn about the natural environment. The Human-Computer Collaborative Learning in…

Lockdown Exam success for KMi Apprentice

13 Jul 2020

Congratulations to Oliva, KMi’s web development apprentice, who along with her many classmates passed her exam despite being in lockdown! Started in October Olivia Hagen passed her Software Development Methodologies…

Tool to Support with REF2021 Open Access Compliance has been released

13 Jul 2020

CORE is happy to announce the release of a new version of the CORE Repository Dashboard. The update will be of particular interest to UK repositories as we are releasing…

International scientists discover a pair of dancing planets

02 Jul 2020

An international team of scientists, including Dr Ulrich Kolb and Professor Carole Haswell of The School of Physical Sciences at The Open University (OU), have discovered two, giant planets interacting near each other, in…

Super-Earth planets detected orbiting nearby star

26 Jun 2020

A system of super-Earth planets – possibly rocky worlds, but larger than Earth – has been detected orbiting the nearby star Gliese 887. An international team of astronomers, including Professor Carole…

QualiChain passes first review with flying colours

22 Jun 2020

The first formal review of the QualiChain project took place on June 18th, 2020. The review was held online and was attended by representatives from all project partners, the Project…

CORE reaches 20 million monthly users

11 Jun 2020

Thousands of data providers from almost 150 countries from all over the world are connected with researchers, students, life long learners and the general public via CORE. This past month …

Agnese secures 2nd place at the 2020 OU poster competition

11 Jun 2020

Great result of Agnese Chiatti, PhD student in KMi and member of the Intelligent Systems and Data Science group, at the 15th Edition of the Postgraduate Research Student Poster Competition,…

PT Anywhere in the UK Government Digital Skills Toolkit

03 Jun 2020

The OpenLearn course Discovering Computer Networks has been included in the UK Government Digital Skills Toolkit for furloughed workers. The Digital Skills Toolkit is a collection of training resources, including…

SPS astronomers find signs of a disintegrating planet around a nearby star

02 Jun 2020

Using data from NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite space telescope, a team of OU astronomers within the School of Physical Sciences, led by Dr Mark Jones, have possibly discovered a…

Funding success to design sensors for X-ray telescopes

02 Jun 2020

OU researchers within the School of Physical Sciences have been awarded €1 million by the European Space Agency (ESA) to develop a prototype sensor needed for the next generation of…

The Joint Conference on Digital Libraries has accepted two papers of CORE

27 May 2020

Members of the CORE Team have been working on submissions for the Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL) and today we are extremely happy to inform our readers that our…