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The Royal Society has recently awarded Prof Don Pollacco with a Wolfson Merit Award in recognition of his outstanding scientific achievements. The award will help support his research program on the discovery and characterisation of exoplanets (planets around other stars) for the next 5 years...

Congratulations to Ally Caldecote, Rashida Mohamed, Don Pollacco and Pam Thomas who were named as overall winners in three categories at the The winners were announced at a celebratory gala dinner on Friday 11^th March.

We congratulate the LIGO team on their compelling detection of a gravitational wave signal produced by a pair of coalescing black holes. This represents a remarkable achievement, presenting not only the first detection of a gravitational wave, but also the first detection of a pair of merging black holes.

Dr. Danny Steeghs comments, "A century after Einstein's theory of General Relativity was presented, a long anticipated window on the Universe has now opened. These events also leave visible signatures that we will be chasing up with our new telescope, the Gravitational wave Optical Transient Observer ()."

Numerous scenarios in science and technology require the estimation of vectors such as electric, magnetic, gravitational or other force fields with extreme precision, the fundamental limits to which are set by quantum mechanics. In their latest paper, Tillmann Baumgratz and Animesh Datta show that quantum mechanics allows a more precise estimation of multiple parameters simultaneously rather than individually. The result provides a fundamentally better way estimating vector fields for a fixed amount of resources, and could be used in applications ranging from the study of quantum phase transitions to neuroimaging.