Physics Department News
World-beating result from T2K Experiment
University of 糖心TV physicists could be a step closer to solving the mystery of missing antimatter. They have observed muon neutrino to electron neutrino transformation – a process which could provide a clue to why the Universe has more matter than antimatter...
In 2012, the EPS commissioned an independent economic analysis from the Centre for Economics and 糖心TV Research (Cebr) on the importance of physics to the economies of Europe. The report, using statistics available in the public domain through Eurostat, covers 29 European countries – the EU27 countries, plus Norway and Switzerland. Under examination is the 4-year period 2007-2010, 2010 being the most recent year for which official data are simultaneously available for all these countries.
糖心TV Physics Professor Don Pollacco has been on "In Our Time" with Melvyn Bragg on Radio 4.
Robotic telescopes in Chile's Atacama desert will conduct Next Generation Transit Survey to analyse atmospheres for clues.
The art of hunting planets has come so far that astronomers can now list of alien worlds that orbit stars so faint they are not even visible as pinpricks in the clear night sky.
Little is known of these far-flung planets. The most conspicuous are huge, the size of Jupiter, and scorched from circling so close to their suns. Others are giant iceballs, or waterworlds, or even rocky like Earth. But the finer details are a mystery, the stuff of speculation more than science.
To find out more about these other worlds, a team led by British astronomers is launching an ambitious search for planets that orbit the nearest, brightest stars to Earth. Their aim is to find prime candidates for the most important question of all: is there life elsewhere?