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UCL team develops laser accelerator for neutral particlesPrecise control of the motion of atoms and molecules is extremely difficult, yet important for a large spectrum of scientific and industrial processes. Applications range from surface growth and deposition, to elucidating the details of chemical reactions through controlled collisions.More... |
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UCL Business Award WinnersProfessor Neal Skipper and Dr Chris Howard, members of the Condensed Matter and Materials Physics group (CMMP), have won the UCL Business Award ‘One to Watch’ 2012.More... |
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First instrument for the JWST completed and handed over to NASAAfter more than ten years of work by over 200 engineers, the Mid InfraRed Instrument (MIRI), a camera so sensitive it could see a candle on one of Jupiter’s moons, has been declared ready for delivery by the European Space Agency and NASA. The MIRI Optical System, an instrument for the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) that will eventually take up a position four times further away from the Earth than the Moon. It will now be shipped to NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center where it will be integrated with the other three instruments and the telescope. More... |
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Manipulation of high-voltage spinel brings the possibility of developing Li-ion batteries one step closerHigh-voltage spinel LiNi0.5Mn1.5O4 is considered to be one of the most promising cathode materials for Li-ion batteries that can be deployed in hybrid and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles. To improve the cyclability and eliminate the impurities in the spinel, one of the commonly adopted approaches is to partially substitute Ni and/or Mn with elements, such as Ti, Fe, Cr, Ru, and Mg. More... |
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RAS Keith Runcorn Prize for 2011 awarded to Dr David KippingDr David Kipping is the 2011 recipient of the Royal Astronomical Society (RAS) Keith Runcorn Prize for the best doctoral thesis in Geophysics.More... |
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Prof Gabriel Aeppli elected as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & SciencesProf Gabriel Aeppli, UCL Quain Professor and Director of the London Centre for Nanotechnology has been elected as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.More... |
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Herschel sees dusty disc of crushed cometsAstronomers using ESA’s Herschel Space Observatory have studied a ring of dust around the nearby star Fomalhaut and have deduced that it is created by the collision of thousands of comets every day. More... |
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Statistics for Physical Sciences: An Introduction- out now!Statistics for Physical Sciences is a short but systematic guide to the ideas and techniques physical scientists encounter in statistical analysis. It combines detailed discussions of a wide range of practical methods with brief descriptions of their theoretical origins, and presents useful formulasand a mathematical account of statistics - all while developing the subject in a logical way. More... |
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Listen: "Not just the Higgs Boson", Prof. Jon Butterworth on the BBC Radio 4 Today programmeProfessor Jon Butterworth discusses the search for the Higgs boson and plans at CERN beyond this with John Humphreys and Paddy Regan on the BBC Radio 4 Today Programme More... |
Listen: Searching through the stars for new planetsDr Giovanna Tinetti, PhD student Ingo Waldmann and Prof. Jonathan Tennyson FRS talk to Adam Smith at the Pod Academy about their work on exoplanets and NASA’s Kepler mission More... |
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First direct evidence of cavitating Langmuir turbulence occurring naturally in any space or astrophysical plasmaRadar observations of the Earth's aurora reveal, for the first time ever, the natural and spontaneous formation of warm, low density 'bubbles' of plasma in the ionosphere: the hallmark of strong Langmuir turbulence. This process has previously been observed only in an artificial context: the driving effects of high-frequency radio waves emitted by powerful transmitters used in ionospheric modification experiments.More... |
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World’s Best Measurement of W Boson MassThe CDF experiment at the Fermilab Tevatron collider has released a new measurement of the mass of the W boson that is, by some margin, the most precise in the world. The new measurement by CDF, M(W) = 80387 +/- 19 MeV/c2, has a smaller uncertainty than all the previous measurements combined, and is the result of several years' painstaking work by physicists including a team from UCL. When combined with a new measurement from the D0 experiment, also announced this week, the combined data give a result 80387 +- 17 MeV/c2 , which has a precision of 0.02 percent. More... |
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In Memoriam: Dr Godfrey 'George' HeylandGeorge Heyland, who died on 6 February 2012 aged 89, was one of the longest serving members of the Physics and Astronomy Department at UCL. More... |
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Watch: Prof. Ofer Lahav discusses Dark Energy with The EconomistProf. Ofer Lahav (Astrophysics) is head of the Dark Energy Survey science programme. In this interview for The Economist, he discusses the rapidly expanding universe and the future of dark-energy research. More... |
Planck steps closer to the cosmic blueprintESA’s Planck mission has revealed that our Galaxy contains previously undiscovered islands of cold gas and a mysterious haze of microwaves. These results give scientists new treasure to mine and take them closer to revealing the blueprint of cosmic structure.The new results are being presented this week at an international conference in Bologna, Italy, where astronomers from around the world are discussing the mission’s intermediate results. More... |
