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KMi researchers develop worlds first COVID-19 digital immunity passport

24 Apr 2020

KMi researchers have created the world’s first digital application to certify COVID-19 immunity test results. The Open Blockchain Team, led by Professor John Domingue, have developed a prototype mobile phone…

CORE update for January to March 2020

24 Apr 2020

CORE is extremely happy to keep its reader up to date and here is its quarterly report for January to March 2020 period. Read CORE Blog Post which includes: CORE is…

Champions in Gender Equality

22 Apr 2020

The School of Physical Sciences have successfully renewed their Institute of Physics (IoP) Juno Champion status in recognition of their commitment to gender equality and improving the working practices for all school…

OU Receives Grant to Combat False COVID-19 Information

03 Apr 2020

KMi’s Harith Alani, Professor of Web Science and leader of the Social Data Science group, has received a grant of €393,000 from a European Union (EU) emergency fund to track…

OU awarded £2.5 million to further success in planetary sciences

30 Mar 2020

The Open University (OU) has received £2.5 million from the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) to fund research in planetary sciences, building on the university’s 50 years in space…

OU researchers discover ancient water reservoirs inside Mars

30 Mar 2020

A team of researchers, including scientists from The Open University (OU), have discovered ancient water reservoirs inside the mantle of Mars. OU researchers Professor Mahesh Anand, Dr Ian Franchi, Dr Susanne Schwenzer and Dr Jessica…

KMi service makes open access more visible and reusable by being an enabling infrastructure

20 Mar 2020

CORE is a global aggregator of open access research content, one of the Jisc’s Open Access services and UK’s National Aggregator. Through its services, CORE delivers a number of key…

SXP390 Student Prize 2024 – “OU student wins prize for study of the exoplanet Kepler-452b”

05 Mar 2020

Each year the School of Physics recognises the achievement of its students through a series of prizes. One of those is the Paul Lidgett Prize, awarded to the most innovative…

A blockchain badge pilot for the IoC Conference

26 Feb 2020

KMi conducted a successful pilot of the IoC blockchain-verified badges this week at the second Institute of Coding (IoC) Conference. Conference attendees were given delegate badges with blockchain technology to log their…

CORE raises repository data quality by consolidating information from external datasets

25 Feb 2020

Read about our work on going beyond mirroring content from our data providers to improve data quality. In our latest blog post, we present how we link CORE data to…

Newly detected green light observed around Mars

16 Feb 2020

OU scientists, as part of an international team, have identified a never-before-seen, green glow surrounding Mars with the same characteristics as the Aurora Borealis, also known as the Northern Lights.…

Congratulations Dr Prashant Khare!

11 Feb 2020

KMi gathered yesterday to celebrate Prashant Khare’s successful defence of his PhD thesis, Identifying and Processing Crisis Information from Social Media. The exam panel was successfully convened, despite severe weather…