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Stirling Lecture 2013 Entitled ‘Beyond the Higgs Boson’

The Stirling lecture is an annual public lecture organized by IPPP in honour of its first Director, Professor James Stirling CBE FRS.

16 Oct 2013

Black Hole Researcher Among Women Celebrated for Ada Lovelace Day

Often described as the world’s first computer programmer, Ada Lovelace was a leading 19th century mathematician and daughter of the poet Lord Byron. She left a lasting legacy as a role model for women around the world.

16 Oct 2013

LHC to Increase Collision Energy for More Detailed Study of the Higgs Boson

Peter Higgs and Francois Englert have been awarded the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics for devising a mechanism to generate mass in gauge theories, and for predicting the existence of a new scalar boson resulting from this mechanism.

16 Oct 2013

Researchers Test Abilities of Topological Insulator Materials to Transport Electrons

Imagine if the "information superhighway" had HOV lanes so that data could be stored, processed and disseminated many times faster than possible with today’s electronics. Researchers in the United States and China have teamed to develop such a speedway for future devices, an exotic type of electrical conductor called a topological insulator (TI).

16 Oct 2013

Liverpool Particle Physics Group Hosts Senior Delegation from Hamamatsu Photonics

The Liverpool Particle Physics Group, based in the Department of Physics, played host to a senior delegation from Hamamatsu Photonics K.K. in Japan.

15 Oct 2013

Combined Study Demonstrates Competing Quantum Effects

The idea that the quantum mechanical behavior of light atoms can be decomposed in different components, and that these components tend to cancel out each other leaving a small net effect has been around for some time in theoretical simulations of hydrogen-bonded systems. Now a combined experimental/computational study provides direct evidence by decomposing the changes in quantum kinetic energy upon melting in heavy water.

15 Oct 2013

TheSkyNet Celebrates Two Year Anniversary, Launches New Scientific Project

TheSkyNet is celebrating its two year anniversary today with the official launch of a new research project, as well as a range of improvements and new features to make contributing to astronomical research at home more enjoyable, and even easier.

15 Oct 2013

New Journal of High Energy Astrophysics from Elsevier

Elsevier, a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, today announced the launch of the Journal of High Energy Astrophysics (JHEAp), the first astrophysical journal that revolves around the study of high energy objects and events.

15 Oct 2013

Hubble Captures Petal-Like Shells of Galaxy PGC 6240

The beautiful, petal-like shells of galaxy PGC 6240 are captured here in intricate detail by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, set against a sky full of distant background galaxies. This cosmic bloom is of great interest to astronomers due to both its uneven structure, and the unusual clusters of stars that orbit around it — two strong indications of a galactic merger in the recent past.

11 Oct 2013

Astronomers Discover Celestial Objects Without Host Stars

Astronomers including Niall Deacon of the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy (MPIA) captured an image of an unusual free-floating planet. As the object has no host star, it can be observed and examined much easier than planets orbiting stars, promising insight into the details of planetary atmospheres.

11 Oct 2013