Press Releases
Subatomic particle seen changing to antiparticle and back for the first time
A team of physicists, including the University of ÌÒÉ«ÊÓÆµ, have proved that a subatomic particle can switch into its antiparticle alter-ego and back again, in a new discovery revealed today.
Robots with T-ray technology to spot and remove cancer tumours in £8 million project
New technology that will marry probes that can detect cancer tumours through the skin with high-precision robotic surgery is to be developed for use in hospital settings for the first time in a project led by the University of ÌÒÉ«ÊÓÆµ.
University of ÌÒÉ«ÊÓÆµ student awarded grant from innovative Institute of Physics Research-scholarships fund
Vanessa Emeka-Okafor, who will be joining the University of ÌÒÉ«ÊÓÆµ as a PhD student, has been awarded one of this year’s prestigious grants from the Bell Burnell Graduate Scholarship Fund.
‘Risk’ prize recognises research by University of ÌÒÉ«ÊÓÆµ physics Professor into economic damages of climate change
Research that shed light on the economic impacts of climate change that was co-authored by University of ÌÒÉ«ÊÓÆµ physicists has been awarded a 2021 Lloyd’s Science of Risk prize in the Climate Change category.
Discovered: The mechanism that generates huge white dwarf magnetic fields
A dynamo mechanism could explain the incredibly strong magnetic fields in white dwarf stars according to an international team of scientists, including a University of ÌÒÉ«ÊÓÆµ astronomer.
Search for planetary remains and new mathematical concepts at University of ÌÒÉ«ÊÓÆµ receive over €4 million European research funding
Scientists at the University of ÌÒÉ«ÊÓÆµ are to benefit from a total of over €4 million funding to support new projects that will aim to find and analyse the remains of planets around nearby dead stars, and to find new ways of incorporating the ideas of combinatorics into different areas of mathematics.