News archive: 2009

Galaxies likely to be the most distant yet seen have been identified by two teams of UK astronomers using the recently updated Hubble Space Telescope.

The University is holding a Postgraduate Open Day on Friday December 4th 2009.

Scottish astronomers are pre-eminent in their field, according to analysis of published scientific research.

Physicists from Edinburgh are to join the quest for the Higgs boson particle at CERN in Switzerland.

Peter Higgs will give this year's Oskar Klein Memorial Lecture, receiving the Oskar Klein medal.

A recent collaboration between musicians and scientists has resulted in the construction of a musical instrument, which may be the mysterious “lituus” written for by J. S. Bach.

The School of Physics and Astronomy podcasts have been featured by Apple in the 'Noteworthy' section of iTunesU this week.

Dr Alex Murphy will present this year's Lord Kelvin Award lecture at the British Science Festival.

Professor Mike Cates has received the British Society of Rheology Gold Medal 'in recognition of his contribution to the theoretical rheology of complex micellar and particulate fluids'.

A postdoctoral research assistant in the Nuclear Physics Group, has won this year's Institute of Physics Astroparticle Physics Group prize.

Edinburgh Nuclear Physicists working at US and European accelerators report key nuclear astrophysical reaction measurements affecting cosmic γ-ray emission line intensities, in 2 papers in same issue of prestigious Physical Review Letters journal.

Professor Mike Cates has received the British Society of Rheology Gold Medal 'in recognition of his contribution to the theoretical rheology of complex micellar and particulate fluids'.

An international team of astronomers, including two members of the School of Physics and Astronomy, has found massive galaxies in existence when the Universe was barely one third of its current age

Professor Alan Heavens is among 44 newly elected UK and International Fellows to the Royal Society of Edinburgh

The School of Physics and Astronomy is sponsoring an innovative exhibition entitled DEAD or ALIVE at the National Physical Laboratory during Science and Engineering week

Two papers from researchers in the Condensed Matter Group have appeared in a single issue of one of the top physics journals, the Physical Review Letters.