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Astronomy / Space - Physics - 07.02.2025
Temperamental stars are distorting our view of distant planets
Temperamental stars are distorting our view of distant planets
'Temperamental' stars that brighten and dim over a matter of hours or days may be distorting our view of thousands of distant planets, suggests a new study led by UCL researchers. Most of the information we have about planets beyond our solar system (exoplanets) comes from looking at dips in starlight as these planets pass in front of their host star.

Physics - Astronomy / Space - 05.02.2025
By studying neutron 'starquakes', scientists hope to transform their understanding of nuclear matter
By studying neutron ’starquakes’, scientists hope to transform their understanding of nuclear matter
The study of 'starquakes' (like earthquakes, but in stars) promises to give us important new insights into the properties of neutron stars. The study of 'starquakes' (like earthquakes, but in stars) promises to give us important new insights into the properties of neutron stars (the collapsed remnants of massive stars), according to new research led by the University of Bath.

Physics - Health - 03.02.2025
New quantum technique could improve cutting-edge spectroscopy
An international team of engineers and physicists have found a way to use quantum light to improve the performance of cutting-edge spectroscopy. Their new technique enables measurements of infrared electric fields which are twice as sensitive as previous developments in a process called time-domain spectroscopy.

Health - Physics - 24.01.2025
Soap’s maze-solving skills could unlock secrets of the human body
An international team of scientists have discovered that soap - just like the type we use to wash our hands - could be important to helping our understanding of complex systems in the human body, such as lungs, and improving therapies for conditions such as respiratory distress syndrome.

Astronomy / Space - Physics - 17.01.2025
Structure of 74 exocomet belts orbiting nearby stars
Structure of 74 exocomet belts orbiting nearby stars
An international team of astrophysicists has imaged a large number of exocomet belts around nearby stars, and the tiny pebbles within them. The crystal-clear images show light being emitted from these millimetre-sized pebbles within the belts that orbit 74 nearby stars of a wide variety of ages - from those that are just emerging to those in more mature systems like our own Solar System.

Physics - 15.01.2025
Scientists achieve world-leading quantum entanglement of molecules
Scientists from our top-rated Physics department have set a global milestone by achieving quantum entanglement of individual molecules using cutting-edge magic-wavelength optical tweezers. This achievement not only overcomes a fundamental challenge in quantum science but also opens up new possibilities in quantum computing, high-precision measurements, and physics research.

Astronomy / Space - Physics - 07.01.2025
Origins of black holes revealed in their spin
Origins of black holes revealed in their spin
The size and spin of black holes can reveal important information about how and where they formed, according to new research. The study, led by scientists at Cardiff University, tests the idea that many of the black holes observed by astronomers have merged multiple times within densely populated environments containing millions of stars.

Astronomy / Space - Physics - 20.12.2024
Astronomers uncover the secret to cooking stars like Christmas puds
Astronomers uncover the secret to cooking stars like Christmas puds
The missing ingredient for cooking up stars has been spotted for the first time by an international team led by astronomers at Imperial College. Much like a pressure cooker has a weight on top of its lid to keep the pressure in and get your festive dessert dense, moist and ready to eat, merging galaxies may need magnetic fields to create the ideal conditions for star formation.

Physics - Chemistry - 02.12.2024
Controlling matter at the atomic level: University of Bath breakthrough
Controlling matter at the atomic level: University of Bath breakthrough
Physicists are getting closer to controlling single-molecule chemical reactions - could this shape the future of pharmaceutical research? Controlling matter at the atomic level has taken a major step forward, thanks to groundbreaking nanotechnology research by an international team of scientists led by physicists at the University of Bath.

Chemistry - Physics - 29.11.2024
Chemistry textbooks need rewriting after new research
Chemistry textbooks need rewriting after new research
Scientists are calling for changes to chemistry textbooks after discovering a fundamental aspect of structural organic chemistry has been incorrectly described for almost 100 years. The team from Cardiff University's School of Chemistry, dispute the long-held belief that alkyl groups - a chemical group consisting of carbon and hydrogen atoms arranged in a chain - donate electrons to other parts of a molecule.

Physics - 22.11.2024
Lenses that could block epileptic-seizure causing wavelengths developed
People with photosensitive epilepsy could benefit from a prototype pair of glasses with lenses that block out wavelengths that are known to cause seizures in some people. In a study published in Cell Reports Physical Science , researchers from the University of Glasgow and University of Birmingham have developed a prototype of a liquid crystal lens that they believe could help photosensitive epilepsy sufferers.

Physics - 19.11.2024
A peek inside the box that could help solve a quantum mystery
An elusive particle that first formed in the hot, dense early universe has puzzled physicists for decades. Following its discovery in 2003, scientists began observing a slew of other strange objects tied to the millionths of a second after the Big Bang. Appearing as 'bumps' in the data from high-energy experiments, these signals came to be known as short-lived 'XYZ states.' They defy the standard picture of particle behaviour and are a problem in contemporary physics, sparking several attempts to understand their mysterious nature.

Astronomy / Space - Physics - 14.11.2024
Decades-long Uranus mystery solved
Decades-long Uranus mystery solved
Uranus's upper atmosphere has been cooling for decades - and now scientists have shown why. Observations from Earth have shown Uranus' upper atmosphere has been cooling for decades, with no clear explanation. Now, a team led by Imperial College London scientists has determined that unpredictable long-term changes in the solar wind - the stream of particles and energy coming from the Sun - are behind the drop.

Astronomy / Space - Physics - 13.11.2024
Mysterious 'Red Monster' galaxies in the early Universe
Mysterious ’Red Monster’ galaxies in the early Universe
An international team that includes the University of Bath has discovered three ultra-massive galaxies in the early Universe forming at unexpected speeds. An international team that was led by the University of Geneva (UNIGE) and includes Professor Stijn Wuyts from the University of Bath has identified three ultra-massive galaxies - each nearly as massive as the Milky Way - that had already assembled within the first billion years after the Big Bang.

Astronomy / Space - Physics - 11.11.2024
Analysis of old space mission data solves Uranus mysteries
Analysis of old space mission data solves Uranus mysteries
Mysteries about Uranus that have baffled scientists for decades may have been the result of an unusually powerful solar storm that happened to occur as a spacecraft visited the planet, a new study involving UCL researchers has found. NASA's Voyager 2, which flew by Uranus in 1986, provided scientists' first, and so far only, close glimpse of the planet, shaping their understanding of it in the decades since.

Physics - Innovation - 01.11.2024
Sky's the limit for cloud-inspired method of guiding light
Sky’s the limit for cloud-inspired method of guiding light
Scientists have taken inspiration from the way sunlight passes through clouds to discover an entirely new way of controlling and guiding light. The breakthrough research, led by physicists from the University of Glasgow, allows light waves to be guided around curved paths tunnelled through opaque materials which would normally scatter them in all directions.

Physics - 26.09.2024
University of Glasgow physicists play key role in CERN’s first observation of ultra-rare particle decay
Researchers from the University of Glasgow have played a vital role in the very first observation of an ultra-rare particle decay process. The finding - the first experimental observation of the ultra-rare decay of the charged kaon into a charged pion and a neutrino-antineutrino pair - will open a new path to find physics beyond the Standard Model of particle physics.

Earth Sciences - Physics - 25.09.2024
Research offers new insight into deep Earth processes
Sophisticated analysis of tiny bubbles of ancient gas trapped in volcanic rocks combined with new geophysical modelling has cast new light on long-held assumptions about the deep Earth. An international team of scientists led by researchers from SUERC and the University of Glasgow's School of Geographical & Earth Sciences, have uncovered surprising results in a new study of volcanic lavas which erupted in the Red Sea from the Afar mantle plume.

Astronomy / Space - Physics - 24.09.2024
Precise locations of more than a million galaxies revealed
Precise locations of more than a million galaxies revealed
The precise distances from Earth of more than 1.8 million galaxies have been revealed in a sky survey involving UCL researchers. The Physics of the Accelerating Universe Survey (PAUS), an international collaboration across 14 institutions, covered a sky area of 50 square degrees, similar to approximately 250 full moons.

Physics - Pharmacology - 20.09.2024
Ultrafast probing and AI-enabled drug discovery: News from Imperial
Here's a batch of fresh news and announcements from across Imperial. From ultrafast probing pulses to a free AI algorithm that could find new medicines more efficiently, here is some quick-read news from across Imperial. W-boson mass measurement   The Standard Model of particle physics - which describes all the subatomic particles and forces we know about - has triumphed again.
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