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Herschel Space Observatory loses its cool

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Herschel

Europe's Herschel Space Observatory has exhausted its supply of liquid helium coolant, after almost four years of scientific observations.

TEDxCERN simulcast at UCL

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Hiranya Peiris

CERN is hosting a TEDx event on 3 May 2013. Although the TEDxCERN main stage will be in Geneva, the UCL Institute for Origins and UCL Physics and Astronomy are hosting a live "simulcast" from 12:30 onwards on the day.

Sounds of UCL: competition winners and panoramas

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What sounds make up London’s global university? UCL Communications has announced the winners of its ‘Sounds of UCL’ competition, which invited staff and students to capture ambient audio clips that reflect the life of UCL.

Child heart surgeons access clearer picture of their success rate

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Heart operation

For the first time, teams that care for children needing heart surgery have been able to review their short-term success rate better across all the different operations they perform.

Building quantum states with individual silicon atoms

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Silicon atoms

By introducing individual silicon atom ‘defects’ using a scanning tunnelling microscope, scientists at the London Centre for Nanotechnology have coupled single atoms to form quantum states.

Call for proposals: UCL–French Embassy science and technology workshops

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UCL Open Access Guidelines and Publishing Guide

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UCL guidelines on open access and a publishing guide are available to UCL researchers.

The RCUK Policy on Open Access introduces, with effect from 1 April 2013, new open access requirements for research papers funded by the Research Councils.

CryoSat-2 mission reveals major Arctic sea-ice loss

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Arctic Ice Plot

Arctic sea ice volume has declined by 36 per cent in the autumn and 9 per cent in the winter between 2003 and 2012, a UK-led team of scientists has discovered.

Graphene research chosen as EU Future Emerging Technology flagship

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Graphene

The European Commission has chosen the Graphene Flagship as one of Europe’s first 10-year FET flagship projects.

Secret of scent lies in molecular vibrations

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Musk molecule

Molecular vibrations, rather than molecular shape, give substances their distinct smell according to a new study by UCL scientists.

Record number of Marie Curie Fellowships for research at UCL

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23 postdoctoral researchers from 14 different countries have been awarded Marie Curie Individual Fellowships. The awards will enable researchers to spend up to two years working with research teams across all schools at UCL.

UCL Grand Challenges £5,000 grants available

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UCL Grand Challenges

The UCL Grand Challenges Small Grants Scheme invites applications to fund cross-disciplinary projects in Global Health, Sustainable Cities, Intercultural Interaction and Human Wellbeing.

Dark matter detector installed and submerged in South Dakota

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LUX experiment

An experiment to look for one of nature’s most elusive subatomic particles is finally under water, in a stainless steel tank nearly a mile underground beneath the Black Hills of South Dakota.

Members of the public asked to help tend Feynman’s Flowers

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Researchers at the London Centre for Nanotechnology (LCN) are asking members of the public to help unlock the secrets of magnetism at the molecular scale by taking part in a citizen science project entitled ‘Feynman’s Flowers’, which officially launches today.

Dark Energy Camera Dedication at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory

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DECam prime focus

On November 9, 2012, ceremonies on the summit of Cerro Tololo, Chile will mark the dedication of the Dark Energy Camera and the beginning of the 50th anniversary celebration of Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (CTIO).

UCL Research Frontiers Contest results

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The results of the UCL Research Frontiers contest have been announced, celebrating the fact that curiosity-driven discovery and analysis has been a feature of UCL from its foundation.

UCL Behaviour Change Month – November 2012

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UCL Grand Challenge of Human Wellbeing

UCL Behaviour Change Month in November 2012 will comprise a series of cross-disciplinary talks, discussions and workshops, and lead up to a £10,000 research prize workshop in January 2013.

£4.3m awarded for experimental particle physics

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ATLAS

The UCL High Energy Physics (HEP) research group in UCL Physics & Astronomy has been awarded £4,340,016 from the Science & Technology Facilities Council (STFC) for experimental particle physics research through to 2016.

UCL Mullard Space Science lab to train ESA staff

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MSSL with comet Hale-Bopp

UCL’s Mullard Space Science Laboratory (MSSL) has won a major 3-5 year contract to provide project management training to the next generation of project managers at the European Space Agency (ESA).

UCL Discovery downloads surpass 2m

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Statistics

The total number of papers, reports and PhD dissertations downloaded from UCL Discovery, the university’s Open Access repository, surpassed 2,000,000 during September 2012.

Loopholes discovered in Sun’s magnetic belt

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The mystery surrounding how an electrically charged solar wind can be unleashed from around the Sun’s equator – an area where strong magnetic fields should strap it to the surface – has been solved by an international team of researchers.

UCL Chemistry students wow Year 8 pupils

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Chemistry outreach

What do you get if you combine 70 school children, enthusiastic teachers, magnets, bubbles, giant models of molecules and hard water? Answer: the UCL Chemistry schools Outreach day!

Dark energy camera records first images

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Dark Energy Camera

Eight billion years ago, rays of light from distant galaxies began their long journey to Earth. On 12 September, that ancient starlight found its way to a mountaintop in Chile, where the newly-constructed Dark Energy Camera, the most powerful sky-mapping machine ever created, captured and recorded it for the first time.

French Embassy funds postdoc workshops

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République Française

The French Embassy has funded a series of UCL collaborative postdoctoral research workshops on topics in science or technology.

Record support for early career researchers 

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ERC

Researchers at UCL have been awarded a total of 17 Starting Grants by the European Research Council (ERC), the highest number awarded at UCL under a single funding call to date. These grants have a total value of €21.6 million. 

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