News archive: 2016

Space images shed light on unknown Universe.

A new theoretical model of DNA as a "recolourable" polymer may explain why specific "epigenetic" patterns on the genome can survive from one cell generation to the next and allow cellular memory.

Images of faraway galaxies shed new light on dark matter.

New study predicts water deeper inside Earth than previously thought.

PhD student Flaviu Cipcigan wins presentation award at NPL Post Graduate Institute conference.

Discover if the School of Physics & Astronomy and the city of Edinburgh are right for you!

Alternative scenario of early Universe overcomes significant theoretical hurdle.

Doors-Open day at JCMB.

A new experiment carried out in the underground Gran Sasso Laboratory of the Italian National Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN) could help scientists uncover the origin of some rare elements in the universe.

An international team of astronomers, led by Edinburgh, has gained a new view of the evolution of distant galaxies. Their study focuses on a region of the Universe previously studied using the deepest observations of the Hubble Space Telescope.

BBC Horizon Special "Inside Cern"

Scientists have refined their search for dark matter with the completion of a sophisticated experiment.

The UK Centre for Astrobiology has concluded its fourth MINAR campaign in the 1.1 km-deep Boulby Mine.

Edinburgh has hosted the fourth year of the Astrobiology Academy. The continuing professional development event, set up by the UK Centre for Astrobiology, takes astrobiology into secondary schools and uses the subject to teach fundamental science.

School staff have taken part in several science outreach events this summer.

Prof. Richard Kenway elected to the STFC council

Mr Alan Walker, a former lecturer in the School, has been awarded an Honorary Degree for his services to science education

An alignment of objects billions of light years away could help us probe the surroundings of black holes

Researchers at the School of Physics & Astronomy have observed an intermediate stage of hydrogen.

Wilson Poon appointed to the Chair of Natural Philosophy.

Experiments that seek to recreate conditions found deep inside the Earth are enabling new insights into the evolution of the planet.

The Edinburgh Soft Matter, Biological and Statistical Physics Group seeks to recruit four postdoctoral research associates.

UK astronomers are celebrating funding to participate in the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST), which will create what is being dubbed “the greatest movie ever made”.

CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and its experiments are back in action

Prof James Dunlop elected to a Fellowship of the Royal Society

Applications invited for Chancellor's Fellows

Congratulations to Dr Jamie Cole and Professor Alex Murphy for their success in the 2016 Teaching Awards.

Congratulations to School PhD student Mary-Ellen Donnelly

In March 2016, six undergraduate students from the College of Science & Engineering attended the Conference for Undergraduate Women in Physics held at the University of Oxford. Now in its second year, the Conference aims to help undergraduate women continue in physics by showcasing options for their educational and professional futures.

Prof Graeme Ackland awarded a 2.5Meu  (£2M) ERC Advanced Fellowship

Congratulations to Professors Annette Ferguson and Cait MacPhee, who have been elected to the RSE.

PhD student Flaviu Cipcigan has reached the final of a national competition

Work has begun on constructing the Higgs Centre for Innovation at the Royal Observatory in Edinburgh.

Dr Rosalind Allen of Institute of Condensed Matter & Complex Systems awarded 1.8m euro Grant

Prof Jim Dunlop of the University of Edinburgh’s School of Physics and Astronomy has been awarded the Royal Astronomical Society’s (RAS) Herschel Medal,  for his pioneering research into galaxy formation.

School researchers have reached the highest ever recorded pressures on dense hydrogen, in excess of the pressures found at the centre of the Earth.

Cait MacPhee, Professor of Biological Physics, has been made a CBE.