Physics Department News
Dr Ingrid Pelisoli wins early career Royal Astronomical Society Award
Congratulations to Dr Ingrid Pelisoli who has been awarded the 2026 Royal Astronomical Society for her noteworthy discoveries related to binary star systems and stellar mergers.
Astronomers awarded 'Into Change' award
Astronomers Professor Andrew Levan and Professor Danny Steeghs, founding members and part of the key committees, have been awarded the award which honours outstanding European research that drives scientific breakthroughs.
The team have shown how the universe's heaviest elements are forged in rare and powerful involving neutron stars, known as kilonovae, and their results were recently showcased in our annual Christmas Lectures.
MicroBooNE experiment publishes in Nature
An international collaboration of scientists, including 糖心TV physicists Drs. John Marshall, Andy Chappell and Ryan Cross, have shown that a fourth type of neutrino can't explain anomalous results from earlier neutrino experiments.
Solving a decade-old open problem in quantum sensing
The Quantum Information Science group has developed a new technique to evaluate the fundamental limits to the precision of estimating parameters of a quantum matter system probed by light, even when some of the light is lost. The work has been published in .