Latest Mathematical & Physical Sciences News
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/maths_and_phys_sci_viewer/rss
admin
2006-09-05T09:42:09Z
Auroras unlock the physics of energetic processes in space
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/news-articles/1118/151118-auroras
A close study of auroras has revealed new ways of understanding the physics of explosive energy releases in space, according to new UCL-led research.
Rebecca L Caygill
2018-11-15T10:06:49Z
Comet tails: charged dust blowing in the solar wind
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/news-articles/1118/021118-comet-tails
How a comet’s dust tail forms bands stretching millions of kilometres across the sky
has been observed for the first time by UCL scientists.
Rebecca L Caygill
2018-11-02T16:28:47Z
Unexpected role of enzyme may help develop anti-cancer drugs
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/news-articles/1018/171018-drug-target
A newly discovered role for the enzyme glutamine synthetase could have important implications for developing anti-cancer drugs according to a new UCL study.
Rebecca L Caygill
2018-10-17T11:52:49Z
World’s largest neutrino detector brings scientists closer to understanding the universe
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/news-articles/1018/180918-particle-tracks-neutrino-experiment
International scientists
are one step closer to answering the most fundamental question of our existence,
‘why are we here?’, as part of a global collaboration involving UCL researchers.
Kate Corry
2018-10-05T11:57:28Z
UCL partners with Google to grow quantum software industry in the UK
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/news-articles/0918/250918-ucl-google-EPSRC
UCL is joining forces with Google to launch a
£5.5m Prosperity Partnership, which aims to harness the revolutionary power of
quantum computers for applications in modelling and simulation.
Kate Corry
2018-09-25T10:52:14Z
Solar Orbiter will be key in understanding solar activity
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/news-articles/0918/180918-solar-orbiter
The European Space
Agency’s Solar Orbiter leaves the UK this week for testing in Germany, hosting
state-of-the-art instruments on board designed by teams including UCL
physicists.
Kate Corry
2018-09-24T08:58:26Z
New DeepMind professorship at UCL to push frontiers of AI
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/news-articles/200918-deepmindprofessor
Leading AI company DeepMind is establishing a Professorship of
Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence at UCL - where two of its
co-founders, Demis Hassabis and Shane Legg, were students.
Henry Killworth
2018-09-20T10:37:56Z
Long-sought decay of Higgs boson observed
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/news-articles/0818/300818-cern-higgs
UCL particle physicists are celebrating that the ATLAS Collaboration at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has – at long last – observed the Higgs boson decaying into a pair of bottom (b) quarks.
Rebecca L Caygill
2018-08-31T08:35:07Z
First ever acceleration of electrons in a proton-driven plasma wave
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/news-articles/0818/290818-acceleration-of-electrons-in-a-plasma-wave
Electrons have been successfully accelerated at CERN using a
wave generated by protons zipping through plasma, report UCL scientists as part
of the AWAKE collaboration.
Rebecca L Caygill
2018-08-29T17:06:42Z
UCL scientists to join Arctic research ship ‘drifting’ past North Pole
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/news-articles/0818/290818-north-pole
UCL scientists are taking part in what could be the largest-scale
Arctic research expedition ever planned when RV Polarstern is deliberately lodged into
sea ice to drift past the North Pole.
Rebecca L Caygill
2018-08-29T13:26:23Z
Half of London car crashes take place in 5% of the city’s junctions
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/news-articles/0818/090818-road-accidents
The location of road accidents is not random and they tend to be highly concentrated in urban areas, according to a new UCL study.
Natasha Downes
2018-08-09T09:40:19Z
Royal Society shortlists three UCL academics for science book prize
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/news-articles/0818/0308519-Shortlist
Three UCL scientists turned authors have been shortlisted
for the prestigious Royal Society Insight Investment Science Book Prize 2018.
Henry Killworth
2018-08-03T14:14:49Z
New dinosaur found in the wrong place, at the wrong time
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/news-articles/0718/250718-Newdinosaur
A new dinosaur called Lingwulong shenqi or ‘amazing dragon from Lingwu’ has been
discovered by an Anglo-Chinese team involving UCL.
Henry Killworth
2018-07-25T10:21:26Z
Three UCL academics recognised with prestigious physics prizes
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/news-articles/0718/110718-IOP-prizes
Professor
Jennifer Thomas, Dr Helen Czerski and Professor Hiranya Peiris have been
awarded medals and prizes by the Institute of Physics (IOP) for their outstanding,
sustained and distinguished contributions to physics.
Rebecca L Caygill
2018-07-11T08:51:59Z
UCL celebrates 70 years of working with the NHS
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/news-articles/0718/050718-NHS-at-70
To celebrate 70 years of the National Health Service, researchers and clinicians from across UCL have spoken about what the NHS means to them and how their work impacts the nation’s health.
Rebecca L Caygill
2018-07-05T12:17:30Z
UCL students work with the BBC to produce short films
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/news-articles/0718/030718-STS-student-journalism-UCL
A group of five
science journalism students all studying for a Science, Technology and Society
MSc at UCL took part in the BBC Future collaboration.
Rebecca L Caygill
2018-07-03T12:50:59Z
Preparing the NHS for a digital future
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/news-articles/0618/280618-NHS-digital-tech
As the NHS celebrates its 70th
anniversary, UCL researchers are helping to assess how new technologies including
genomics, artificial intelligence and bionanotechnology, will shape the future
of healthcare in the UK for decades to come.
Rebecca L Caygill
2018-06-28T06:58:24Z
Magnetic field collisions around Saturn reveal planetary differences
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/news-articles/0618/040618-saturn-cassini-magnetosphere
Magnetic reconnection – the explosive reconfiguration of two magnetic fields – occurs differently around Saturn than around Earth, according to new findings from the international Cassini mission involving UCL researchers.
Chris Lane
2018-06-04T16:48:34Z
New blood test to detect liver damage in under an hour
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/news-articles/0518/240518-liver-fibrosis-test
A quick and robust blood test that can detect liver damage before symptoms appear has been designed and verified using clinical samples by a team from UCL and University of Massachusetts.
Chris Lane
2018-05-25T10:05:45Z
Professor Richard Ellis admitted to Australian Academy of Science
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/news-articles/0518/250318-richard-ellis
Professor Richard Ellis (UCL Physics & Astronomy) has been admitted as a Fellow and Corresponding Member of the Australian Academy of Science for outstanding scientific contributions to his field.
Jacinta M Mulders
2018-05-24T13:31:20Z
Three UCL academics named British Science Association ‘Section Presidents’
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/news-articles/0518/230518-british-science-association
Three UCL academics have been announced by the British Science Association (BSA) as Scientific Section Presidents for 2018.
Natasha Downes
2018-05-23T16:28:54Z
Stars formed only 250 million years after the Big Bang
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/news-articles/0518/160518-stars-formed-galaxy
Stars in a galaxy 13.28 billion light years
away formed only 250 million years after the Big Bang, finds a team of
international astronomers led by groups at UCL and Osaka
Sangyo University in Japan.
Rebecca L Caygill
2018-05-16T17:22:40Z
Gaia's 3D census of over one billion stars in our Milky Way
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/news-articles/0418/250418-gaia-esa-data-release
The positions and distances of over
one billion stars in our Milky Way Galaxy have been released by the European Space Agency Gaia mission involving UCL researchers, creating the first 3D census of our home galaxy and opening a new window on the Universe.
Rebecca L Caygill
2018-04-25T10:11:22Z
New ocean plankton species named after BBC's Blue Planet series
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/news-articles/0418/170418-Syracosphaera-azureaplaneta
A newly discovered species of ocean plankton, Syracosphaera azureaplaneta , has been named by UCL researchers in honour of the critically acclaimed BBC Blue Planet series and its presenter Sir David Attenborough.
Rebecca L Caygill
2018-04-17T13:13:09Z
Antarctica retreating across the sea floor
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/news-articles/0418/060418-antarctica-retreating
Antarctica’s great ice sheet is losing ground as it is eroded
by warm ocean water circulating beneath its floating edge, a new UCL and
University of Leeds study has found.
Rebecca L Caygill
2018-04-06T11:37:35Z