News archive: 2021

Funding supports collaboration between Edinburgh Complex Fluids Partnership and Corning Incorporated.

Congratulations to Dr Liu who has been awarded the 2021 Institute of Physics Mary Somerville Medal and Prize.

Award recognises contributions to communication, engagement and in advancing public discussion in science.

Mars explorers searching for signs of ancient life could be fooled by fossil-like specimens created by chemical processes, research suggests.

Experiments demonstrate a high reactivity between carbon and hydrogen at conditions comparable with those in the Earth’s upper mantle.

Topological feature could prove useful for dissipationless spintronics.

Researchers will be involved in observing the collision in the first mission to demonstrate technology to deflect an asteroid.

2021 Blavatnik Award Laureate Professor Sinead Farrington honoured at UK ceremony.

Soft matter start-up, Dyneval Ltd, to establish a quality control standard that will benefit the livestock production chain.

Data is consistent with what the Standard Model predicts: the presence of three kinds of neutrinos.

Quantum Mechanics is a textbook written by two members in the School of Physics & Astronomy.

Professor Catherine Heymans unveils plaque to mark opening.

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Award recognition for contributions to lattice field theory.

Congratulations to colleagues who have received fellowships and awards in this latest round.

Prof Aliotta receives the Giuseppe Occhialini Medal and Prize in recognition of her work in nuclear astrophysics.

Congratulations to Dr Dominique Laniel who has been awarded a Future Leaders Fellowship, and will be joining the School and University’s Centre for Science at Extreme Conditions.

UK project processing massive data stream from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory will take inventory of the Universe.

Congratulations to astronomer Dr Cyrielle Opitom who has been awarded a Royal Society University Research Fellowship.

Xenon Researchers build next-generation Dark Matter Detector.

Research and teaching in theoretical physics to be enhanced as centre expands.

Funding was successfully secured for collaboration with external partners to develop a biofilm model for testing active ingredients for hand hygiene.

Astronomers have shed light on the mystery of why some galaxies look blue while others appear red.

The first interstellar comet looks very much like Solar System comets.

Puzzles, tours and a play about psychology and quantum physics: some of the School’s events this year.

Research boost for the School’s Institute for Particle & Nuclear Physics.

Congratulations to Dr XinRan Liu who has received this award for his outstanding research and public engagement efforts to promote Dark Matter and astroparticle physics.

Congratulations to Dr Rosa Santomartino who has been awarded a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship.

The School welcomes applications from both external and internal scientists interested in applying for personal fellowships.

Astronomers have spotted a giant ‘blinking’ star, 100 times the size of the sun.

Large Hadron Collider beauty experiment makes first observation of charm meson oscillation.

Professor Catherine Heymans, a world-leading expert on the physics of the so-called dark universe, has been awarded the prestigious title, which dates back almost 200 years.

Congratulations to Dr Tiffany Wood and Dr Vincent Martinez who received an award from Scottish EDGE as part of School start-up Dyneval Ltd.

Scientists are working to harness the properties of DNA in order to craft complex fluids and soft materials with potential applications in drug delivery and tissue regeneration.

Congratulations to Dr Rob Currie and Dr Ben Wynne who have received RAMP Early Career Investigator Awards from the Royal Society.

Data is now being collected from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI), and scientists hope to use this to learn about the nature of dark energy.

Congratulations to Professor Judy Hardy and Dr Jean-Christophe Denis for their success in the 2021 EUSA Teaching Awards.

University collaborative TestEd project seeks to establish methods to detect SARS-CoV-2 in asymptomatic carriers in the University's staff and student populations.

Estifa’a Zaid was shortlisted for the ‘Commitment to Student Experience’ category.

Edinburgh astrophysicists secure a spectacular series of observational programmes on the NASA/ESA James Webb Space Telescope.

An international team of astronomers has published the most sensitive images of the Universe ever taken at low radio frequencies, using the International Low Frequency Array (LOFAR).

Congratulations to Davide Michieletto who has received an award from the Royal Society of Chemistry’s Statistical Mechanics and Thermodynamics Group.

Congratulations to Professors Ross McLure and Alex Murphy who have been elected to become Fellows of The Royal Society of Edinburgh.

Congratulations to the recipients of this prestigious 5-year tenure track fellowship scheme focused on innovative research.

Fellowship will help more young people develop STEM skills and learn more about the challenges of space exploration.

Particle physicists announce results that potentially cannot be explained by the current laws of nature.

By combining our knowledge of polymer physics and molecular biology, scientists can craft DNA-based soft materials that can change properties over time.

Using theoretical and experimental analysis, researchers aim to better understand the magnetic properties of 2D materials for the next generation of information technologies.

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Lively debate about life on other planets enables scouts to complete activity and leads to future plans.

Scientists are developing software to exploit the large data sets collected by the next-generation experiments in high energy physics.

Discovery opens exciting opportunities to explore magnetic domain control via topological spin textures.

Nuclear physics scientists collaborate with engineers to design a vacuum chamber for use in nuclear astrophysics experiments.

Professor Alexander Morozov’s New Horizons funding will examine phenomena in the microbial world to enrich our understanding of non-equilibrium physics.

The School has achieved an excellent outcome in the latest round of grants awarded by the Science and Technology Facilities Council’s Astronomy Grants Panel.

Congratulations for Dr JC Denis who has received an award in recognition of his public engagement efforts.

The School has announced the student recipients of medals and awards at an online ceremony.