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A world’s first in proton beam research
Added: 4 Feb 2021
Apologies for the newsletter misdirect if you were looking for Biophilic building for human resilie…
Go with the flow: Transition to Vanadium batteries is gathering pace
Added: 12 Oct 2020
Following up on his interview with ‘Vanadium Queen’, Maria Skylass-Kazacos published in our Septemb…
Physicist creates fifth state of matter from their living room
Added: 22 May 2020
Dr Amruta Gadge from the Quantum Systems and Devices Laboratory successfully created a Bose-Einstei…
The physics of restoration
Sarah Lawton | Added: 1 May 2020
Art plays a significant part in modern society, and the art of restoration is crucial to safeguardi…
(A)I must insist
Added: 10 Feb 2020
In a data-rich research landscape – only a mix of man and machine will give us hope of extracting k…
Why we need a science of science
Added: 25 Nov 2019
At the launch of a new initiative to understand how research is funded, practiced and evaluated, Pr…
Make ‘em laugh, make ‘em think…
Added: 11 Nov 2019
The Ig Nobel awards ceremony is a highlight of the scientific calendar with its celebration of unco…
Time to reconcile science and philosophy
Added: 4 Nov 2019
Despite close historical ties, philosophy and science have had a bumpy relationship in the modern e…
More power to you
Added: 28 Oct 2019
Our need for battery power is insatiable and current lithium-ion anode technology just won’t cut it…
Reproducibility comes as standard (part 2)
Added: 5 Aug 2019
Science's reproducibility crisis is a big challenge and one that needs to be overcome quickly. In t…
Reproducibility comes as standard (part 1)
Added: 29 Jul 2019
Science's reproducibility crisis is a big challenge and one that needs to be overcome quickly. In t…
Terraforming Mars: A giant leap too far?
Added: 17 Jun 2019
SpaceX plans to send humans to Mars by 2024 and establish a Martian city by 2050 but how plausible …
Opening science or narrowing its base?
qwbdchbctt.d qwbdchbctt.d | Added: 16 Apr 2019
It may carry laudable ambition, but will Plan S damage science? From 2020, the scientific publishin…
The quest to go quantum
qwbdchbctt.d qwbdchbctt.d | Added: 1 Apr 2019
Dotted around the UK, scientists are slowly but surely turning quantum research into commercial pro…
Future Circular Collider: Is it worth it?
qwbdchbctt.d qwbdchbctt.d | Added: 8 Mar 2019
Earlier this year CERN announced the Future Circular Collider study aiming to build on the success …
Future Circular Collider: What is it?
qwbdchbctt.d qwbdchbctt.d | Added: 8 Mar 2019
Earlier this year CERN announced the Future Circular Collider study aiming to build on the success …
Beating the diamond-standard
qwbdchbctt.d qwbdchbctt.d | Added: 4 Jan 2019
Forget diamond – when considering super-hard materials, says Metin Örnek, the search for an alterna…
Two beams are better than one
qwbdchbctt.d qwbdchbctt.d | Added: 10 Dec 2018
As neutron crystallography advances it is becoming a powerful scientific tool, but will it replace …
Minding the gap
qwbdchbctt.d qwbdchbctt.d | Added: 12 Sep 2018
When it comes to visualising ultra-fast phenomena, especially biological processes, there is a prob…
Some like it hot
qwbdchbctt.d qwbdchbctt.d | Added: 16 Mar 2018
The problem of ‘hot electrons’ mean that photovoltaic cells only harvest part of the sunlight they …
