News archive: 2017

Professor Charles Cockell has been awarded the 2017 Chancellor’s Award for Teaching

Tackling questions from the public at the interactive exhibition: UnEarthed

Research suggests that life on our planet might have originated from biological particles brought to Earth in streams of space dust

Students, staff, industry and supporters met to celebrate project achievements and award the presentation for the best summer student poster

Fun activities highlighting the role that physics plays in our lives at the Festival of Physics

Congratulations to students who received Medals, Certificates, Prizes and Scholarships at the School of Physics & Astronomy undergraduate awards ceremony

Postgraduate students are to benefit from a £10 million UK initiative to support data science research

Discover more about our degrees, including our new MSc in Particle & Nuclear Physics

The first binary neutron star collision to be observed by LIGO and the first gravitational wave event to be observed by conventional telescopes

New discovery relating to chromosome looping via molecular slip links

Eutrophication and warming of lakes and seas may push ecosystems beyond a critical tipping point, causing rapid transitions from oxic to anoxic conditions that are not easily reversed.

Film re-creating astronomy experiments screened at Edinburgh Filmhouse 7 October

The School of Physics and Astronomy opened its doors to visitors and showcased the research undertaken at the Institute for Condensed Matter and Complex Systems.

Visitors learn about particles, music and art!

Flagship international experiment to study the properties of fundamental sub-atomic particles

PhD student Samuel Payler completes Mars isolation mission

Topology plays a key role in biophysics, from genome organisation to cellular motion. Our work suggests a new role in DNA melting.

Congratulations to HypED for their work on the prototype for the SpaceX Hyperloop Pod Competition

Construct a cloud chamber and learn how sounds are formed in different wind instruments – some of the events you can take part in at the Orkney International Science Festival

Mixing immiscible substances under pressure

A new study sheds light on the chemical make-up of the planet

A study of distant galaxies has enabled astronomers to make the most accurate measurement to date of the large-scale structure of the universe.

Showcasing Research at comedy events

Students embark on a year abroad in a partner institution to undertake a research project.

Scientists have discovered that UV light can ‘activate’ perchlorate under Martian environmental conditions, causing it to enhance the rate of bacterial death.

Experiments on suspensions of swimming bacteria have revealed that they exhibit chaotic collective motion reminiscent of the turbulence seen around an airplane wing or in a waterfall.

Astronomers have released the largest ever map of the sky at infrared wavelengths, with over 1.5 million mega-pixels and containing nearly two billion stars and galaxies.

Rewarding pupils and giving them an insight into studying physics

Edinburgh student wins Institute of Physics prize for UK's best Computational Physics PhD.

Scientists have solved a decades-old puzzle about a widely used metal, thanks to extreme pressure experiments and powerful supercomputing.

Student Flaviu Cipcigan receives runner-up “Sam Edwards” PhD thesis prize for a leading contribution in advancing theoretical condensed matter physics.

Congratulations to our students who received Medals, Prizes and Scholarships at the School of Physics & Astronomy awards ceremony held on 3 April 2017.

The Problem with Infrared Crystallography

Current student Grace Richards reflects on her attendance at the Conference for Undergraduate Women in Physics (CUWiP) UK in March 2017.

PhD student Maria Francesca Marzioni wins IOP Conference poster prize

School awarded STFC-CDT studentships in Data Intensive Science.

Mathematical modelling identify factors that contribute to cancer risk .

Professor Emeritus Peter Ware Higgs, Nobel Laureate in Physics 2013, has received the Royal Commission for the 1851 Exhibition Medal for his outstanding contribution to physics.

Team of physicists from School win third prize at IBM Universities Business challenge (UBC).

UKCP grant for electronic structure calculations

Astronauts touch down for science training

Friedrich Wilhelm Research Award

Gravitational Waves to Reveal Darkest Secret of our Universe.

Origin of meteoritic stardust unveiled by a revised proton-capture rate of oxygen-17

The Institute for Astronomy's Prof. Catherine Heymans has been awarded the 2017 George Darwin Lectureship by the Royal Astronomical Society.

Results from a search for dark matter in the complete LUX exposure.