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Euclid, the European Space Agency telescope whose massive optical camera was designed and built by an international team led by UCL researchers, has captured a rare phenomenon known as an Einstein ring which reveals the extreme warping of space caused by a galaxy's gravity.

Imperial's Professor Tim Horbury and Helen O'Brien are celebrating the impact of the Solar Orbiter as they mark five years since it first launched.

An international space mission currently mapping the dark Universe has discovered a rare 'Einstein Ring' in a galaxy not far away.

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Professor Carla Figueira De Morisson Faria (UCL Physics & Astronomy) writes in The Conversation about how research into incredibly short laser pulses can have wide ranging impacts across a range of technologies.

A significant research grant from the Wellcome Trust will allow a team of researchers to identify the biological mechanisms through which magnetic forces affect animals, including humans. Scientists have long known that many animals have a magnetic sense, which some use to navigate around the Earth, particularly during their spectacular seasonal migrations.

Researchers from the University of Glasgow are lending their expertise to a new European Principal investigator Dr Mohammad Yazdani-Asrami and co-investigator Dr Wenjuan Song, of the James Watt School

Albert Einstein's transformational prediction about how gravity behaves has been backed by an international team of researchers who studied how the force acts on cosmic scales.

Nano-scale changes in structure can help optimise ion exchange membranes for use in devices such as flow batteries. Research that will help fine-tune a new class of ion exchange membranes has been published in Nature * by researchers at Imperial, supported by colleagues at a range of other institutions.

Here's a batch of fresh news and announcements from across Imperial. From a promising route to reducing brain injury risk in stent surgery, to a new way to probe the mysteries of quantum entanglement, here is some quick-read news from across Imperial.

The first 3D images of a whole human thymus have been created using a specialised X-ray technique by researchers from UCL and the Francis Crick Institute. These highly-intricate images showed that structures called Hassall's bodies occupy a large fraction of thymic medulla, suggesting they might play a role in regulating thymic microenvironment and immunity.

Researchers from the University of Glasgow are featured in a new documentary which is set to open a top international film festival.

Cardiff scientists are key participants in a $1bn space mission being considered by NASA to explore the secrets of the universe.

Over 1.5 billion objects in the Milky Way have been mapped in a project involving UCL researchers. Over the course of 13 years, the VISTA Variables in the Vía Láctea (VVV) survey and its extension, the VVV eXtended survey (VVVX), observed the central regions of the Milky Way. The surveys used VISTA (Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy), a European Southern Observatory (ESO) facility in Chile, with 420 nights of observation capturing approximately 200,000 images, generating 500 terabytes of scientific data.

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.