Physics Department News
Physics PhD student Edo Carnio reports on the 66th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting
"The 66th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting took place from June 26 to July 1 2016 on the beautiful island of Lindau, Germany, where 29 Nobel laureates, 400 young scientists and many other distinguished guests were welcomed." says Edo Carnio.
With the aim of encouraging women to work in science, the EPSRC-funded beamline XMaS at the ESRF run a project every year taking female Physics students, aged 16–17 years, to Grenoble to visit the facilities.
On 4th-7th July 16 girls visited the ESRF and participated in the Synchrotron@school programme...
The most Earth-like planet could have been made uninhabitable by vast quantities of radiation, new research led by Dr Dave Armstrong of the Astronomy Group has found. The atmosphere of the planet, Kepler-438b, is thought to have been...
A team of researchers from the Astrophysics Group led by Tom Louden discovered winds of over 2km per second flowing around a planet outside of the Earth’s solar system.
“This is the first ever weather map from outside of our solar system. Whilst we have previously known of wind on exoplanets, we have never before been able to directly measure and map a weather system.”