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Manchester Theoretical Particle Physicist Wins Institute of Physics Kelvin Award

Professor Jeff Forshaw, in the School of Physics and Astronomy, has won the Institute of Physics Kelvin Award for outstanding contribution to the public understanding of physics.

6 Jul 2013

Science Minister Visits Bristol Lab to Learn About Quantum Technologies

Mr Willetts was given a tour of the University of Bristol’s state-of-the-art Centre for Nanoscience and Quantum Information (NSQI) yesterday [4 July], where vibration and acoustic noise levels are among the lowest ever achieved, despite being located in the centre of Bristol.

6 Jul 2013

Levitated Hot Metal Droplets Supercooled Using X-rays

The experimental work, which was performed at the German Electron Synchrotron Facility (DESY) in Hamburg, involved levitating hot metal droplets and observing them as they cooled by irradiating them with x-rays from one of the world's strongest x-ray sources.

6 Jul 2013

Radioactive Astatine’s Ionization Potential Measured at CERN Lab using LARISSA Lasers

The radioactive element astatine, the name of which is derived from the Greek word for 'instability,' is so rare on earth that it has not yet been investigated to any greater extent and, as a consequence, very little is known about it.

6 Jul 2013

Story Behind the Discovery of Higgs Boson

The story behind the discovery of the Higgs Boson, which is thought to explain why fundamental particles have mass, is being told by a team from Brunel University, London, at the Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition this week.

6 Jul 2013

Physicists Measure Strength of Alpha Electromagnetic Force on White Dwarf Star

UNSW physicists have studied a distant star where gravity is more than 30,000 times greater than on Earth to test their controversial theory that one of the constants of Nature is not a constant.

5 Jul 2013

Radio Bursts from Extreme Astrophysical Event at Cosmological Distances

The international research team, writing in the journal Science, rule out terrestrial sources for the four fast radio bursts and say their brightness and distance suggest they come from cosmological distances when the Universe was just half its current age.

5 Jul 2013

CERN to Open Installations to the Public in September

Geneva, 4 July 2013. From 27 to 30 September 2013, CERN1 is putting on a long weekend of events and activities as a way of sharing its research and discoveries with its community and the wider public.

5 Jul 2013

ESO’s Very Large Telescope Spots Distant Galaxy Snacking on nearby Gas

Astronomers using ESO’s Very Large Telescope have spotted a distant galaxy hungrily snacking on nearby gas.

5 Jul 2013

Researchers Detect Electronic Spin State of Graphene Using Spin-Polarized Metastable Helium Beam

Using a spin-polarized metastable helium beam, a research group of the Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA) and the National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) succeeded in detecting the electronic spin state of only the graphene contacted to a magnetic metal in devices.

5 Jul 2013