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Brunel Profs Reunite to Illuminate Life and Career of Physicist Maxwell on BBC R4

Following the success of their above ground re-tracing the route of the world’s biggest scientific experiment – the Large Hadron Collider – in Self Orbits CERN, Brunel Professors Will Self and Akram Khan are reuniting for another physics-based series.

21 Nov 2015

Dim, Cool Dwarf Star Generates Surprisingly Powerful Magnetic Field

Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have discovered that a dim, cool dwarf star is generating a surprisingly powerful magnetic field, one that rivals the most intense magnetic regions of our own Sun.

20 Nov 2015

Moore Foundation Awards $13.5 Million Grant to Develop Shoebox-Sized Particle Accelerator

The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation has awarded $13.5 million to Stanford University for an international effort, including key contributions from the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, to build a working particle accelerator the size of a shoebox based on an innovative technology known as “accelerator on a chip.”

20 Nov 2015

Tiny Star Demonstrates Monstrous Temper

Our Sun is a relatively quiet star that only occasionally releases solar flares or blasts of energetic particles that threaten satellites and power grids. You might think that smaller, cooler stars would be even more sedate. However, astronomers have now identified a tiny star with a monstrous temper. It shows evidence of much stronger flares than anything our Sun produces. If similar stars prove to be just as stormy, then potentially habitable planets orbiting them are likely to be much less hospitable than previously thought.

20 Nov 2015

TRIUMF Scientist Discusses Leading-Edge Developments in Nuclear Medicine

Advanced medical isotopes hold immense promise in the diagnosis and treatment of disease, and their development is rooted in physics. On Dec. 2, join Paul Schaffer of TRIUMF – Canada’s national laboratory for particle and nuclear physics and accelerator-based science – as he discusses leading-edge developments in nuclear medicine and his team’s award-winning efforts to produce a secure supply of critical medical isotopes.

20 Nov 2015

Astronomers Announce Evidence of Exoplanet Being Born

Since prehistory, humans have speculated about how the planets in our solar system were formed. Today, astronomers announce evidence of an exoplanet being born that could move us one step closer to understanding the process of planet formation around other stars.

20 Nov 2015

Researchers Image Still Forming Planet

There are 450 light-years between Earth and LkCa15, a young star with a transition disk around it, a cosmic whirling dervish, a birthplace for planets.

20 Nov 2015

UK’s Quantum Hubs Exhibit at First Quantum Technology Showcase

Bristol academics joined research teams from universities and companies around the country for the first Quantum Technology Showcase at the Royal Society in London last week, to exhibit new technologies being developed at the UK’s four Quantum Technologies Hubs.

19 Nov 2015

UltraVISTA Unearths Many Previously Hidden Massive Galaxies

Just counting the number of galaxies in a patch of sky provides a way to test astronomers' theories of galaxy formation and evolution. However, such a simple task becomes increasingly hard as astronomers attempt to count the more distant and fainter galaxies.

19 Nov 2015

Scientists Capture First-Ever Images of a Planet in the Making

An international team of scientists in Australia and the United States has captured the first-ever images of a planet in the making. The accumulation of dust and gas particles onto a new planet - the process by which the planet continues to form and grow - has been directly observed for the first time.

19 Nov 2015