Picture of the Week
Inside the clean room
The London Centre for Nanotechnology is a joint research institute of UCL and Imperial College London. In its main base, on the UCL campus, LCN carries out research into materials at the smallest of scales. Combining areas as varied as electronics design, chemistry and life sciences, LCN's hi-tech labs are a hive of cross-disciplinary study – and are the only facilities of their type in a city centre anywhere in the world. More...
Mathematical and Physical Sciences Picture of the Week
Inside the clean room
The London Centre for Nanotechnology is a joint research institute of UCL and Imperial College London. In its main base, on the UCL campus, LCN carries out research into materials at the smallest of scales. Combining areas as varied as electronics design, chemistry and life sciences, LCN's hi-tech labs are a hive of cross-disciplinary study – and are the only facilities of their type in a city centre anywhere in the world. More...
Published: Jul 1, 2013 12:00:00 PM
Galaxy M 100
This colour composite image of galaxy Messier 100 (M 100) combines light from three different wavelengths, revealing some of the different processes that exist in galaxies similar to our own. More...
Published: Jun 24, 2013 3:00:10 PM
Inside the Turner Lab
Edward Turner, the first professor of chemistry at UCL, was an important figure in the history of 19th century science. Appointed to the chair of chemistry soon after the college's foundation, he was also author of an important textbook of the day, his Elements of Chemistry. Turner was a highly skilled experimental chemist, and his meticulous work on atomic weights put him at the centre of a major controversy of the age. More...
Published: Jun 17, 2013 4:08:58 PM
L'Aquila after the quake
Early in the morning of April 6, 2009, an earthquake hit the central Italian town of L'Aquila. Although the shock was not particularly strong, at 5.8 on the Richter scale, the historic fabric of the town suffered severe damage, and almost 300 died. In this photo, the devastation by the local prefecture (government office) is clear to see.
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Published: Jun 10, 2013 12:00:00 PM
Crystal Palace Park or Jurassic Park?
Following the Great Exhibition of 1851, the Crystal Palace in Hyde Park was taken down and shipped in pieces to Sydenham. Enlarged and rebuilt in suburban parkland, the palace reopened in 1854 as visitor attraction. While the palace is long gone, destroyed by fire in 1936, and the exhibits long forgotten, one curious element of the period remains. More...
Published: Jun 3, 2013 1:23:19 PM
A bright spark in the early Universe
UCL’s Department of Space and Climate Physics, also known as
the Mullard Space Science Laboratory (MSSL), is one of the UK’s top centres for
spacecraft technology. Among the missions MSSL has played a key role in is the
Herschel Space Observatory, a European space telescope that recently completed
its four year mission to observe the sky in infrared light. MSSL was part of
the consortium that built the Spectral and Photometric Imaging Receiver (SPIRE),
one of the cameras on board, which took the image above. More...
Published: May 27, 2013 12:00:00 PM
A rose by any other name
The picture represents a "finite energy foliation" of the 3-dimensional manifold S1 x S2 with its standard contact structure. Finite energy foliations are ways of filling 3-dimensional space with smooth surfaces that are solutions to a differential equation arising in string theory. More...
Published: May 20, 2013 12:51:54 PM
Orange crystals
As well as being pretty, crystals tell us something profound: their shapes reflect the way they are structured on the tiniest of scales. The orderly arrangement of their atoms in a neat lattice scales up to produce crystals’ simple, geometric shapes, making their appearance a peep-hole into the world of atoms and molecules. More...
Published: May 13, 2013 12:00:00 PM
Venus in 3D
NASA's Magellan probe mapped almost the entire surface of Venus during its four-year mission in the early 1990s. Because of the thick clouds that entirely hide the planet's surface, the probe could not take traditional photographs of the surface. Instead, it scanned the planet in long strips using a method called synthetic aperture radar, which allows for high-resolution images to be made even with a relatively small antenna. More...
Published: May 6, 2013 12:00:00 PM
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