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A telescope to find thousands of planets beyond our Solar System is the hot favourite for selection as Europe's next medium-class science mission. The mission, known as , should launch on a Soyuz rocket in 2024, with leading the Plato Science Consortium...

Extra solar planets have come to prominence in the past decade as advanced techniques have begun to detect them in greater numbers. The discovery of Kepler-78b in October 2013 attracted media coverage worldwide, with some reports suggesting the planet had Earth-like properties. But what does that mean? Are we a step closer to finding another habitable environment outisde of our solar system? Lucy Handford spoke to Professor Don Pollacco from the to find out more.

and her collaborators have recently been awarded funding from EPSRC for three years, for the study of Topological Insulators.

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