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| 27 Mar 2025 |
Alcoholic drinks: the physics of fizz |
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| 20 Mar 2025 |
First Light: the dawn of stars and galaxies |
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| 13 Mar 2025 |
Responsible research |
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| 20 Feb 2025 |
Modelling evolution of risk-aversion and extreme altruism |
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| 13 Feb 2025 |
How a laser works |
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| 06 Feb 2025 |
Summer Internships |
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| 23 Jan 2025 |
Ice – from snowflakes to energy storage |
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| 16 Jan 2025 |
Minds or Mirrors?: Understanding Generative AI without the Hype |
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| 2024 |
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| 21 Nov 2024 |
Learning physics by doing physics: challenges and opportunities |
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| 14 Nov 2024 |
Applying for a PhD |
Tyler Shendruk Moritz Pascal Reiter
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| 07 Nov 2024 |
The power of physics: improving efficiencies and sustainability for a better future. |
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| 31 Oct 2024 |
Are you afraid of the dark? The Subterranean Search for Dark Matter |
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| 24 Oct 2024 |
The story of a career from physics to epidemiology and (at least in part) back to physics again. |
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| 17 Oct 2024 |
Quantum physics in strong fields ( PEW PEW LASERS!!) |
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| 10 Oct 2024 |
Kelvin & the Cables |
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| 03 Oct 2024 |
Elastic scattering and breakup reactions of Halo Nuclei |
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| 26 Sep 2024 |
What I did last summer... |
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| 19 Sep 2024 |
How to Study Physics |
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| 28 Mar 2024 |
The state that has no right to exist |
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| 21 Mar 2024 |
20 Years of the Centre for Science at Extreme Conditions |
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| 14 Mar 2024 |
Physics with Purpose: Degrees Designed for Real-World Challenges |
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| 07 Mar 2024 |
Is Fusion Power on the Horizon? |
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| 29 Feb 2024 |
Why the hell am I (a physics education researcher) in a physics department? |
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| 15 Feb 2024 |
Amorphous ice and liquid states of water |
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| 08 Feb 2024 |
A short history of scientific 'fraud', from skeletons to superconductors |
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| 01 Feb 2024 |
Maskelyne, the man who used a Munro to weigh the Earth |
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| 25 Jan 2024 |
Thermodynamics of timekeeping: How much does a good clock cost? |
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| 2023 |
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| 23 Nov 2023 |
Connecting Climate Change to the Physics of a Microbial Railway Network |
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| 09 Nov 2023 |
How to chose and apply for a PhD |
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| 02 Nov 2023 |
The Origin of the Chemical Elements |
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| 26 Oct 2023 |
Made in Edinburgh - the bijel story from soft-matter physics to energy-storage materials |
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| 19 Oct 2023 |
TBC |
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| 12 Oct 2023 |
A Career in Suspension Formulation |
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| 05 Oct 2023 |
Precision Tests of Fundamental Interactions and their Symmetries Using Exotic Ions in Penning Traps |
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| 21 Sep 2023 |
How to learn physics effectively: what we know from Physics Education Research |
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| 09 Mar 2023 |
Nuclear and atomic physics techniques in cultural heritage science |
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| 23 Feb 2023 |
Binary neutron stars: Einstein's richest laboratory |
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| 02 Feb 2023 |
So you want to build a science megaproject? |
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| 19 Jan 2023 |
Atlas at 1000 Papers |
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| 2022 |
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| 24 Nov 2022 |
Why you should do a PhD (or not) |
Tyler Shendruk Moritz Pascal Reiter
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| 17 Nov 2022 |
Fluctuations Beyond Chemical Imagination in Liquid Water |
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| 10 Nov 2022 |
ATLAS at 1000 papers |
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| 03 Nov 2022 |
Is there any science in science-fiction films? |
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| 27 Oct 2022 |
Hot & cool: tackling the Fusion grand challenge with AI and HPC |
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| 06 Oct 2022 |
The Physics of Bacteria |
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| 22 Sep 2022 |
How to learn physics effectively: what we know from Physics Education Research |
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| 21 Mar 2022 |
Is new physics lurking in the magnetic interaction of a muon? |
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| 14 Mar 2022 |
The interplay of disorder and fluctuations in physical systems from atomic to planetary scale and the 2021 Nobel Prize in Physics |
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| 07 Mar 2022 |
Decolonising the physics curriculum: starting with thermodynamics. What, why, and how? |
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| 28 Feb 2022 |
Novel Energy Storage Technologies: a Roadmap for a Renewable Future |
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| 14 Feb 2022 |
Domain Wall Fermions / Summer Internships |
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| 07 Feb 2022 |
High-temperature Superconductivity in Hydrides at High Pressures |
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| 31 Jan 2022 |
Observing Tidal Disruption Events with the Rubin Observatory LSST |
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| 24 Jan 2022 |
Autonomously Moving Matter |
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| 2021 |
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| 29 Nov 2021 |
Thinking, reasoning and problem solving in physics |
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| 22 Nov 2021 |
Turning diamond into methane |
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| 15 Nov 2021 |
Exploring Cosmic Dawn with the James Webb Space Telescope |
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| 08 Nov 2021 |
Postgraduate research degrees |
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| 04 Nov 2021 |
Generating High-Intensity, Ultrashort Optical Pulses |
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| 01 Nov 2021 |
PhD reflections |
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| 18 Oct 2021 |
Water water everywhere |
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| 11 Oct 2021 |
From Grassroots to National Policy Change: The LGBT+ Physicists |
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| 04 Oct 2021 |
Hyperloop: The 5th Mode of Transportation |
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| 27 Sep 2021 |
Epidemic modelling for physicists |
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| 20 Sep 2021 |
Searching for Simplicity |
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| 2020 |
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| 15 Oct 2020 |
Rapid Assistance in Modelling the Pandemic. How can non-specialists help with 'the science'. |
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| 01 Oct 2020 |
The Magicians: Great Minds and the Central Miracle of Science |
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| 13 Feb 2020 |
The Force Awakens |
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| 06 Feb 2020 |
Trinity - The treachery and pursuit of the most dangerous spy in history: The Edinburgh Connection |
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| 2019 |
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| 04 Nov 2019 |
Dark Matter and Creativity |
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| 28 Mar 2019 |
Craigmillar Community Science Festival |
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| 20 Mar 2019 |
The law of the first significant digits and the half-lives of radioactive isotopes |
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| 15 Mar 2019 |
Nano Heat Engines: Extracting Work from Bacteria |
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| 13 Feb 2019 |
The waxing and waning of Alpine glaciers as sensitive proxies of natural and anthropogenic climate change |
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| 30 Jan 2019 |
Why we need to keep talking about diversity in physics |
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| 2018 |
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| 20 Sep 2018 |
Biological structures obtained by electron cryomicroscopy: Adventures of a physicist in biology. |
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| 22 Mar 2018 |
The Biomechanics of Poo and Pee |
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| 15 Mar 2018 |
To the Centre of Titan and Beyond: 30 Years of Neutron Diffraction with the Paris-Edinburgh Pressure Cell |
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| 21 Feb 2018 |
Ailsa Sparkes Memorial Lecture: Gold |
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| 05 Feb 2018 |
Enhancing Employability for Physics Graduates |
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| 2017 |
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| 16 Nov 2017 |
New Science with X-ray Free Electron Lasers |
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| 26 Oct 2017 |
Metallic Hydrogen Science Facts and Science Fictions
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| 02 Oct 2017 |
The Dark Side of the Universe
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| 21 Sep 2017 |
HYPED: The Edinburgh Hyperloop Project |
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| 23 Mar 2017 |
Where do elements come from? Studying stars in the lab |
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| 16 Mar 2017 |
Gas Hydrates - From a Laboratory Curiosity to Global Importance |
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| 02 Mar 2017 |
Gravitational waves - the new Astronomy? (2017 Ailsa Sparkes Memorial Seminar) |
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| 02 Feb 2017 |
Order without symmetry breaking |
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| 2016 |
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| 15 Nov 2016 |
Caramel, cement and corn flour: Adventures of a modern natural philosopher |
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| 12 Oct 2016 |
Electron-Ion Collider: A new scientific frontier |
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| 12 May 2016 |
Robust Emergence of Diverse Planetary Systems and the Prospects of Life around Other Stars |
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| 24 Mar 2016 |
The Cosmological Context of the Milky Way Galaxy |
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| 22 Mar 2016 |
IPNP colloquium: the first detection of gravitational waves |
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| 2015 |
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| 30 Nov 2015 |
Searching for Physics Beyond the Standard Model with the World’s Largest Penning Trap |
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| 29 Oct 2015 |
How do magmas behave at depth? |
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| 22 Oct 2015 |
Is the speed of light in free space always c? |
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| 15 Oct 2015 |
Phase-engineered Light Patterns for Ultracold Atom Experiments |
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| 19 Mar 2015 |
Making atoms see the light (or not) - Electromagnetically-induced transparency for structured light |
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| 26 Feb 2015 |
Looking Outward, Inward, Homeward: a talk by Dr Ellen Stofan, NASA Chief Scientist |
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| 19 Feb 2015 |
The Big ILW Physics Lecture |
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| 22 Jan 2015 |
At the Interface of Physics and Biology, and the Physics and Biology of Interfaces: Inaugural Lecture |
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| 2014 |
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| 13 Nov 2014 |
Electron-phonon coupling, anharmonic phonons, and snowflakes |
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| 28 Oct 2014 |
Nuclear Astrophysics at the CIRCE Laboratory |
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| 24 Oct 2014 |
Repurposing the Large Hadron Collider |
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| 21 Oct 2014 |
Physics of Life in Extreme Environments |
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| 06 Mar 2014 |
Bionic hearing: the science and the experience
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| 2013 |
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| 28 Nov 2013 |
The Higgs boson and our life |
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| 10 Oct 2013 |
The Solution to a Fifty Year Old Mystery |
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| 11 Apr 2013 |
Scientific & Computational Advances in Fusion Energy Research |
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| 2012 |
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| 29 Nov 2012 |
As Weird as They Come: Elemental Metals at High Pressure |
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| 11 Oct 2012 |
The Infinity Puzzle: From QED to the Higgs Boson and beyond |
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| 20 Sep 2012 |
The Higgs boson reveals all!
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| 10 May 2012 |
On the Shoulders of Eastern Giants: The Forgotten Legacy of Medieval Physicists
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| 26 Apr 2012 |
Neutrinos at the Terascale: a tale of 3.5 frontiers
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| 05 Apr 2012 |
The Infinity Puzzle: from atoms to the LHC |
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| 29 Mar 2012 |
The hundred year hunt for the red sprite |
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| 23 Feb 2012 |
Seminar: Life-plans, Research and Sidetracks |
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| 23 Feb 2012 |
Seminar: The Dark Universe |
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| 26 Jan 2012 |
Life in the Universe: Inaugural Lecture by Prof. Charles Cockell
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| 2011 |
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| 17 Nov 2011 |
A random walk through the forest - or how we guess the strength of wood. In 3D!
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| 28 Oct 2011 |
A weighty problem: the hunt for the Higgs boson
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| 19 May 2011 |
Homi Bhabha Lecture - At the edge of glassiness: how simple can a complex system be?
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| 01 Apr 2011 |
Confessions of a Converted Lecturer
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| 2010 |
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| 15 Apr 2010 |
Ultrahigh energy cosmic rays: experimental progress and the puzzles the data present |
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| 2009 |
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| 26 Nov 2009 |
Deep underground science at Boulby Mine: Dark matter and beyond |
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| 15 Oct 2009 |
Sex and Molecular Evolution |
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| 24 Sep 2009 |
STFC: Where did it all go wrong? |
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| 10 Jun 2009 |
The Hunt for the Higgs |
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| 28 Apr 2009 |
Naïve beliefs about physics and education |
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| 26 Mar 2009 |
The search for the origin of mass |
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| 12 Mar 2009 |
The Lusi mud volcano |
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| 05 Mar 2009 |
From neutrino oscillations to curing cancer |
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| 19 Feb 2009 |
The Monster at your Doorstep: Edinburgh University's HECToR Supercomputer |
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| 2008 |
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| 06 Nov 2008 |
Weightlessness—the best diet in the world? (or how (not) to build planets) |
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| 30 Oct 2008 |
Life on Mars Time—an account of the Phoenix Mission |
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| 23 Oct 2008 |
Space as an Extreme Environment |
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| 16 Oct 2008 |
Gravitational waves searches - status and plans |
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| 10 Oct 2008 |
What do I know about Physics Education? |
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| 25 Sep 2008 |
Making Money by Cooling Crystals |
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| 03 Apr 2008 |
Sustainable Energy |
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| 20 Mar 2008 |
The Corkscrew in the Sky |
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| 13 Mar 2008 |
What lies beneath; and how the LHC could help us find out |
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| 06 Mar 2008 |
Smart insurance modelling - why is my team full of physics PhDs? |
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| 2007 |
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| 22 Nov 2007 |
The Science and Technology Facilities Council |
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| 15 Nov 2007 |
Invisible cloaks and the perfect lens |
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| 01 Nov 2007 |
Biological Physics - Science or Gimmickry? |
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| 25 Oct 2007 |
Lord Crawford's Astronomy Library |
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| 27 Sep 2007 |
The Search for Origin of the Highest Energy Particles in Nature |
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| 04 Sep 2007 |
Students' Investigative Skills and the Physics Laboratory - research and good practice seen from 'Down Under' |
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| 22 Mar 2007 |
Statistics, the Cosmic Microwave Background, and the Anthropic Principle |
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| 15 Mar 2007 |
Some advances in radiotherapy |
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| 08 Mar 2007 |
The Matter-Antimatter Asymmetry |
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| 01 Mar 2007 |
The Antikythera Mechanism Decoded |
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| 22 Feb 2007 |
Liquid Films, Bubbles and Drops ; A Demonstration Lecture |
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| 08 Feb 2007 |
The Use of Physics in Computer Games |
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| 01 Feb 2007 |
Nanotechnology: challenging chips and crime |
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| 25 Jan 2007 |
Undergraduate laboratory physics – Has anything changed in 25 years? |
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| 2006 |
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| 07 Dec 2006 |
Harnessing plasma waves to accelerate particles and amplify light |
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| 23 Nov 2006 |
How Cold is Cold Fusion? |
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