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The first satellite in the European Space Agency's Cluster quartet safely came back down to Earth on Sunday, marking a successful end to a decades-long mission involving UCL researchers.

New results from the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) collaboration involving UCL researchers have put the best-ever limits on weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs), a leading candidate for what makes up our universe's invisible mass. Figuring out the nature of dark matter, the invisible substance that makes up most of the mass in our universe, is one of the greatest puzzles in physics.

Dr Simon Singh, science writer and Imperial College London alumnus, returned to give a lecture to open an international atomic physics conference.

A new generation of specialty optical fibres has been developed by physicists at Bath to cope with the data transfer challenges expected from quantum computing.

Two whole adult human hearts, one healthy and one diseased, have been imaged in unprecedented detail by researchers from UCL and the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF), providing an invaluable resource for better understanding cardiovascular disease. The study, published in Radiology , is an atlas of the human heart that captures the anatomical structure of the whole organ down to 20 micrometres - half the width of a human hair.

Manchester is a world-leader in the novel fabrication of semiconductors devices from 2D materials to silicon.

The European Southern Observatory (ESO) has signed an agreement for the design and construction of ANDES , the ArmazoNes high Dispersion Echelle Spectrograph.

Five new views of the Universe have been released today, captured by the European Space Agency's Euclid telescope, whose massive optical camera was designed and built by an international team led by UCL researchers.

Scientists have released the first set of scientific data captured with the Euclid telescope, showing an exciting glimpse of the Universe's distant past. The telescope, launched in July 2023, is part of the Dark Energy Satellite Mission , which aims to map the dark Universe. Led by t'he European Space Agency in collaboration with The Euclid Consortium - which includes astronomers at The University of Manchester in leadership positions - the mission seeks to unlock mysteries of dark matter and dark energy and reveal how and why the Universe looks as it does today.

Researchers are seeking answers to some of the most elusive questions in fundamental physics at a brand-new experimental facility based at Cardiff University.

A professor at the University of Warwick is exploring the chemistry of the galaxy far, far away this Star Wars Day, May the 4th.

A team from the University of Southampton is using nanotechnology to support the conservation of HMS Victory in Portsmouth.

Sarah Haigh, Professor of Materials Characterisation at The University of Manchester and Director of the Electron Microscopy Centre (EMC), photographed in the EMC.

Here's a batch of fresh news and announcements from across Imperial. From research awards in environmental science and neutron physics, to comments on new research that hopes to understand why inflammation is different in men and women, here is some quick-read news from across Imperial. Environmental research awards Two research papers involving experts from Imperial's Environmental Research Group (ERG) have received awards from scientific journals for the quality of their work this month.

A new image from the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration involving UCL's Dr Ziri Younsi has uncovered strong and organised magnetic fields spiralling from the edge of the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*). Seen in polarised light for the first time, this new view of the monster lurking at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy has revealed a magnetic field structure strikingly similar to that of the black hole at the centre of the M87 galaxy, suggesting that strong magnetic fields may be common to all black holes.

A new fabrication process that could be used to build a quantum computer achieves an almost zero failure rate and has the potential to be scaled up, according to new research from engineers and physicists at UCL.

A team based in The University of Manchester's Department of Materials are leading research into inorganic high-entropy materials.