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What inspires two Industrial Fellowship winners

January 23, 2015
Alice Hagan is working with Biocompatibles UK Ltd and the University of Brighton to develop beads capable of blocking blood flow to cancerous tumours while simultaneously releasing drugs directly into...

Japan aims for deep impact

January 22, 2015
The Japanese space agency has launched a mission to return samples collected from deep within an asteroid. The Japanese space agency (JAXA) launched Hayabusa 2 on 3 December from the...

Chancellor puts money where mouth is for mission to Mars

January 19, 2015
In his autumn statement, Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne has made clear Government’s intention that the UK will play a lead role in Europe's ExoMars mission to Mars. The...

Hydrogen detected three billion light years

January 5, 2015
Astronomers have detected faint signals of hydrogen gas at a record distance of three billion light years from Earth. Dr Barbara Catinella and Dr Luca Cortese, astronomers from the Swinburne...

We’re living in the Quantum Age, says Brian Clegg

December 19, 2014
In his latest book, Brian Clegg looks at how the physics of the very small has transformed our lives.Tell us a bit about The Quantum Age. There have been a...

Solving the vanadium dioxide conundrum

December 18, 2014
Researchers have shed new light on a long standing conundrum in condensed-matter physics by combining electron microscopy and laser spectroscopy in novel ways.Vanadium dioxide has intrigued the scientific community since...

Dr Eva-Marie Graefe juggles science and motherhood – with help from L’Oreal and UNESCO

December 12, 2014
Dr Eva-Marie Graefe juggles researching leaky quantum systems with being a mum – here we learn more about work-life balance and how the L’Oreal-Unesco For Women in Science Fellowship is...

X-ray absorption reveals water structure mystery

December 12, 2014
A new twist on x-ray absorption spectroscopy has allowed American scientists to reveal the molecular structure of water at gold electrodes. When a solid is immersed in liquid, the liquid...

New particles found as CERN make data publicly available

November 28, 2014
CERN has announced that the LHCb experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has found two new particles in the baryon family. The organisation – celebrating its 60th anniversary –...

Did gravity save the universe after the Big Bang?

November 27, 2014
The universe did not collapse immediately after the Big Bang and a team of European physicists might be able to explain why. Studies of the Higgs particle have suggested that...

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