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UK space sector growth promises benefits for lab R&D
Added: 1 Dec 2024
Lab innovation has helped enable the UK space sector’s expansion rate to outstrip the wider economy…
Bacteria point the way for sustainable space power
Added: 18 Nov 2024
An international research project involving scientists from Heriot-Watt University has found inspir…
Universities launch programme to boost UK space sector graduate opportunities
Added: 22 Sep 2024
Three south of England-based universities have launched a project to provide hands-on industry expe…
UKSA £7.4 mill funds UK universities’ role in global space race
Added: 19 Feb 2024
UK Space Agency funding will enable university based scientists to be involved in a raft internatio…
Turing helps connect swimming sperm with zebra stripes
Added: 16 Oct 2023
What is the connection between swimming sperm and the spots on a leopard or the stripes on a zebra?…
STFC issues recruitment call for £85 mill UK project to build World's most powerful laser
Added: 1 Oct 2023
The Science and Technology Facilities Council is recruiting experts to participate in the construct…
IET football tournament’s out of this world
Added: 3 Aug 2023
Moon Rovers 2: Lunar United 3. While it sounds like Fantasy Football, it could be one day as feasib…
NPL and STFC collaborate on small satellite calibration facility
Added: 29 Jul 2023
The National Physical Laboratory (NPL) is partnering with the Science and Technology Facilities Cou…
US space science's $3 million lift-off for school STEM booster
Added: 3 Apr 2023
NASA has allocated more than $3 million (£2.42 million) to a number of higher education colleges ac…
Southampton University’s featherweight plans knockout blow for space debris
Added: 15 Feb 2023
Southampton University researchers have successfully piloted the launch of a small scale plasma thr…
NASA awaits return of landmark space experiments cargo
Added: 8 Jan 2023
Samples from pioneering experiments into radiation, hydroponics and bioprospecting in microgravity …
Meet the supermassive black hole at the centre of our galaxy
Added: 23 May 2022
Scientists have captured humanity’s first look at the supermassive black hole, called Sagittarius A…
Two millimetre optical microresonator will improve planetary landing success
Added: 21 Apr 2022
Smaller, they say, is better in space. A NASA-funded team led by SMU researchers think that their s…
So... What is the point of physics? IOP is offering £1000 for the best answer!
Added: 7 Apr 2022
IoP launches a new challenge to get young people to see physics differently. With only one in ten p…
Scientists design remote monitoring system for inaccessible quantum devices
Added: 1 Apr 2022
Researchers have developed an innovative remote monitoring system for ultra-sensitive quantum devic…
UK demonstrates its first 'green' high-powered rocket engine
Added: 22 Nov 2021
A UK nuclear fusion company based in Bletchley, has just developed and tested its first launch capa…
Commercial quanta image sensors - a new era in solid-state imaging
Added: 27 May 2021
Solid-state technology capable of imaging individual photons of light to enable full-speed photon c…
High-resolution model offers stunningly realistic simulation of the birth of stars
Added: 21 May 2021
A team including Northwestern University astrophysicists has developed the most realistic, highest-…
Visualising the light-bending dance of binary black holes using NASA's Discover supercomputer
Added: 20 Apr 2021
Try to imagine and describe a black hole. A big one! Now try to imagine a second supermassive black…
The chronicles of NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance continued - the first test drives
Added: 12 Mar 2021
During it's first week on the planet's surface, NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover and its Earthbo…
