Articles tagged with 'physics' | University of Manchester

Professor Boya is recognised for her work on unravelling the properties of fluids under atomic-scale confinement. ...

A 900-year-old cosmic mystery surrounding the origins of a famous supernova first spotted over China in 1181AD has finally been solved, according to an international team of astronomers. New research published today (September 15, 2021) says that a f...

Drs Laura Wolz and Margherita Polacci will receive help to commercialise their innovations. ...

Research led by The University of Manchester has found that ions diffuse 10,000 times faster inside atomically thin clays than in bulk clay crystals, offering the potential to achieve vastly improved membrane performance in applications such as desal...

It is with great sadness that we learned of the recent passing of John Ponsonby. ...

Professor John Latham was a past Head of the Physics Department at UMIST and the founder of the Cloud Physics Group. ...

On Monday 14 June, Nobel Laureate Sir Andre Geim will be joining some of the brightest minds on the planet - from industry, government, academia, culture and entertainment – to answer the question: ‘How do we get the next 10 years right?’ ...

Researchers at The University of Manchester’s National Graphene Institute (NGI) have published a study in Nature Communications showing how water friction and velocity can be selectively controlled through nano-scale channels using graphene and hexag...

The second edition of the Graphene Hackathon – held from 26-30 April and run by PhD students from The University of Manchester – delivered a wealth of creativity as teams battled it out to win prizes for the best business idea using graphene. ...

A much-anticipated result from an international science experiment provides strong evidence for the existence of an undiscovered subatomic particle or new force. ...

Researchers at The University of Manchester’s National Graphene Institute have created optical devices with a unique range of tunability, covering the entire electromagnetic spectrum, including visible light. ...

Two astronomy networks are coming together to form Europe’s largest ground-based astronomy collaborative network: the ORP. ...

Billy Quartermain will receive a range of practical and academic support throughout his degree course. ...

A group led by the University of Manchester has described how it used the challenges of lockdown caused by the global covid-19 pandemic to continue to deliver important messages about climate change to young people. ...

A new research development from The University of Manchester and the Christie NHS Foundation Trust has shown progress for developing a potential new cancer treatment using high energy electron beams. ...

Scientists are developing vital software to exploit the large data sets collected by the next-generation experiments in high energy physics (HEP), predominantly those at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). ...

Multi-disciplinary researchers at The University of Manchester have helped develop a powerful physics-based tool to map the pace of language development and human innovation over thousands of years – even stretching into pre-history before records we...

Researchers from National Graphene Institute at The University of Manchester and University of Pennsylvania have identified ultrafast gas-flows through the tiniest holes in one-atom-thin membranes, in a study published in Science Advances. ...

The celebrations will recognise the hard work of FSE's Postgraduate Class of 2020. ...

The 150-year-old mystery behind a natural phenomenon that is omnipresent in our world – and even helps children build sandcastles – has finally been solved by a team of scientists from The University of Manchester led by Nobel laureate and graphene p...

Professor Daniele Leonori, Professor Artem Mishchenko and Dr David Mills are among the Laureates and Finalists of the prestigious awards. ...

Manchester research associate Dr Matthew Hamer has won the Physical Science category of the Scopus Early Career Researcher (ECR) UK Awards 2020 for his work with graphene and other 2D materials. ...

A group of researchers led by Sir Andre Geim and Dr Alexey Berdyugin at The University of Manchester has discovered and characterised a new family of quasiparticles named ‘Brown-Zak fermions’ in graphene-based superlattices. ...

An international team of astronomers including UK scientists from Manchester and Cardiff, today announced the discovery of a rare molecule – phosphine – in the clouds of Venus. On Earth, this gas is only made industrially, or by microbes that thrive ...

Scientists, engineers and technicians from The University of Manchester, along with other UK research organisations, have embarked on a £26M project to help upgrade the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, on the French/Swiss border near Geneva. ...

The hard work of the Faculty's graduates has been recognised in a series of virtual celebrations. ...

In this video we answer the big questions asked by our undergraduate students regarding teaching, learning and the start of the new academic year. ...

The UK government recently announced new post-study work visas for international students. ...

The Large Hadron Collider Beauty (LHCb) collaboration has observed a type of four-quark particle never seen before. ...

An international collaboration of scientists has recorded the most accurate confirmation to date for one of the cornerstones of Einstein’s theory of general relativity, ‘the universality of free fall’. ...