Physics Department News
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 .
Dr Snehalata Sahu featured in Astronomy Now magazine
Recent research by Snehalata Sahu Link opens in a new windowon the discovery of a hot white dwarf merger remnant has attracted the attention of Astronomy Now magazine editor Stuart Clark. Impressed by her unique blend of science and creativity, they reached out to feature her astronomy-inspired artwork in the magazine's October issue.