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Higher Education Minister visits Ukrainian summer camp at Durham University

The UK’s Higher Education Minister has visited Durham University to show her support for an education and recreation summer camp for Ukrainian young people. Baroness (Jacqui) Smith visited the University’s Physics Department to meet young participants in a three-week residential summer school organised by the charity fund Tomorrow, UAPhysicsOnline and OneUkraine gGmbH (CORRECT) and in coordination with Ukraine’s Coordination Headquarters for the Treatment of Prisoners of War.
Jacqui Smith watches as Ukrainian summer school students demonstate a Physics experiment

Art-Science Collaboration on Apocalyptic Space Threats

On 23 June, Durham academics Dr Richard Wilman (Physics) and Dr Nikita Chiu (Responsible Space Innovation Centre) participated in a public panel discussion on cosmic endings and space-based threats. The event was organised by Heidelberg University's Centre for Apocalyptic and Post-Apocalyptic Studies (CAPAS) and took place after a performance of the astronomically-inspired opera “Collision”.
Richard Wilman in discussion in theatre

CfAI Head of Optical Design gives award winning talk at the SPIE Astronomical Telescopes & Instrumentation Conference in Japan

Ariadna Calcines Rosario, Head of Optical Design at Durham’s Centre for Advanced Instrumentation (CfAI), has received the Award to the Best Oral Presentation of the over 100 given at the SPIE Astronomical Telescopes & Instrumentation Conference in Yokohama, Japan.
Ariadna best talk award

Durham University physicists play key part in UK’s quantum future

We’re playing a key part in the UK’s drive to develop quantum technology to benefit a wide range of areas including healthcare, computing and security.
A laser beam being directed through mirrors in a laboratory

Dr Alex Guttridge awarded prestigious Royal Society University Research Fellowship

Dr Alex Guttridge has been awarded a prestigious Royal Society University Research Fellowship. The Fellowship enables Dr Guttridge to research the topic of programmable assembly of ultracold molecules in optical lattices.
Photo of Dr Alex Guttridge smiling at camera next to an optics bench

Breaking barriers: embracing neurodiversity in neutron and muon science

“Diversity of thought benefits everyone, but when the focus is on the short-term costs of making changes, disabled people are often deterred from asking for what they need.”
Photo courtesy: Science and Technology Facilities Council)

New image shows galaxies are bigger than we thought

We’re part of an international team of astronomers who have been able to take a photograph of the halo of gas around a galaxy for the first time.
A spiral galaxy at the centre of the picture surrounded by purple and blue gas, against a starry backdrop

International Masterclass on Particle Physics

On March 22, Durham University's Institute for Particle Physics Phenomenology (IPPP) hosted the International Masterclass on Particle Physics—a hands-on event where high school students analysed real data from the Minerva neutrino detector. Over one hundred students from six local high schools—Durham Johnston, Durham Sixth Form, Newcastle High School for Girls, Thirsk School and Sixth Form, Wellfield Academy, and Sunderland Sixth Form—participated in the event.
International Masterclass on Particle Physics

How medieval chroniclers interpreted solar eclipses and other celestial events

The evolution of technology has allowed scientists to analyse celestial events in much greater detail. Medieval chroniclers didn’t have that luxury but Giles Gasper in our History department and Brian Tanner in our Physics department say that doesn’t mean there isn’t lots we can learn from the ways in which they talked about these events and understood the universe.
Stars in the solar system depicting a celestial event

Durham Physicists receive funding for EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Fusion Power, making fusion energy commerical and meeting net zero goals

Researchers in the Physics Department at Durham University will receive funding for the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in Fusion Power from the UK’s biggest-ever investment in engineering and physical sciences doctoral skills.
3D Render fusion reactor nuclear fusion, tokamak inside heated plasma, toroidal shape, clean energy

Precisely measuring our expanding Universe

Our physicists are part of an international team that has made the largest 3D map of the Universe, measuring its expansion over 11 billion years.
A map of the Universe showing a web of blue, green and white against a black backdrop

SuperBIT makes Nature Astronomy front cover

An international project involving Durham University which flew a gigantic balloon-borne telescope to the edge of space has made the front cover of the prestigious journal Nature Astronomy.
The SuperBIT space telescope being hoisted by a yellow crane against a black and pink dusk sky
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