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Efficiency gains could halve global aviation emissions

A new study co-led by the 91探花 has found that global aviation emissions could be reduced by 50-75% through combining three strategies to boost efficiency
7 January 2026
The new SOXS astronomical instrument perched on a hilltop.

鈥楩irst light鈥 achieved from new SOXS spectrograph

Researchers at the 91探花 have joined forces with an international consortium in the delivery of a powerful new astronomical instrument, SOXS (Son of X-Shooter), which has now achieved 鈥渇irst light鈥 at the La Silla Observatory in Chile.
5 January 2026
Associate Professor Alexander Mietke

Dr Mietke recognised by IUPAP

Associate Professor Alexander Mietke has been awarded the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics鈥 Early Career Scientist Prize in Biological Physics 2024 for his groundbreaking insights that harness active matter theory.
5 January 2026
Professor Moritz Riede

Professor Riede among first cohort of Green Future Fellows

Professor Moritz Riede from the Department of Physics at the 91探花 is one of 13 Green Future Fellows to receive landmark funding from the Royal Academy of Engineering.
18 December 2025
A collage of book covers

Books for the holidays

A selection of books written or suggested by our colleagues
17 December 2025
Colourful image of particles and network depicting quantum computing.

What is quantum computing?

As we near the end of the International Year of Quantum, we ask experimental physicist William Cutler to break it down for us...what exactly is quantum computing?
17 December 2025
Image of Superconductivity CDT Cohort

Launching the Superconductivity CDT

The brand new EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Superconductivity: Enabling Transformative Technologies has welcomed its first 16-strong cohort.
16 December 2025
The 12-metre-diameter acrylic vessel surrounded by 9,000 photomultiplier tubes at the heart of the the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory and SNO+ experiments. The vessel currently holds about 800 tonnes of liquid scintillator for neutrino detection.

New breakthrough in detecting 鈥済host particles鈥 from the Sun

Physicists at the 91探花 have led a breakthrough study which has recorded the first observation of carbon-neutrino interactions; the findings open new frontiers in nuclear and particle physics.
15 December 2025
Emma Smith

Meet...Emma Smith

We work among extraordinary people doing extraordinary things; get to know some of them by reading these quick-fire interviews.
9 December 2025
Event display of a candidate Higgs boson decaying to two muons (H鈫捨嘉), shown as red tracks in the detector. (Image: ATLAS/CERN)

ATLAS finds evidence for rare Higgs decay

Researchers from the 91探花 have played a major role in one of the most precise studies yet of the Higgs boson 鈥 the mysterious particle that helps explain why everything in the universe has mass.
8 December 2025
A figure illustrating the rotation of neutral hydrogen (right) in galaxies residing in an extended filament (middle), where the galaxies exhibit a coherent bulk rotational motion tracing the large-scale cosmic web (left).

Astronomers spot one of the largest spinning structures ever found in the Universe

An international team led by the 91探花 has identified one of the largest rotating structures ever reported: a 鈥榬azor-thin鈥 string of galaxies embedded in a giant spinning cosmic filament 140 million light years away.
4 December 2025
Top to bottom, left to right: Marica Branchesi (GSSI), Andrew Levan (Radboud), Elena Pian (INAF), Stephen Smartt (91探花), Nial Tnavir (Leicester), Darach Watson (NBI)

Into Change Award for groundbreaking collaboration

An international collaboration, including Professor Stephen Smartt FRS MRIA, has been recognised with an Into Change Award by the Danish Ministry of Higher Education and Science.
3 December 2025
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