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The Homestake mineral vein on Mars.
07 May 2012

Recently-appointed Research Fellow Derek Martin will be investigating the potential for microbial life on Mars.

An impression of a star being shredded by a supermassive black hole.
02 May 2012

British Astronomers have helped to gather the most direct evidence yet of a supermassive black hole shredding a star that wandered too close.

17 April 2012

International team will investigate self assembly of bacterial cells.

17 April 2012

Craters made by asteroid impacts may be the best place to look for signs of life on other planets, a study suggests.

11 April 2012

LHC physics data-taking gets underway with new record collision energy of 8 TeV

10 April 2012

'Reliable and dedicated teacher' receives EUSA's Simon Van Heyningen Award for Teaching in Science and Engineering.

03 April 2012

Graphene-like mixed atomic-molecular state points towards the metallization of hydrogen

29 March 2012

A calculation that took 54 million processor hours leads to new understanding of kaon decay.

27 March 2012

Astronomers release 150-billion pixel image of the Milky Way.

26 March 2012

New study of cosmic star-formation history looks back to Universe's lively youth.