Articles tagged with 'physics' | University of Manchester

Three leading departmental researchers are being awarded highly prestigious European Research Council (ERC) advanced grants.

Research by Manchester’s Angstrofluidics Group is exploring new perspectives in nanofluidics by pushing the boundaries of nanofabrication with angstrom-scale two-dimensional channels.

Harnessing energy stored in water from raindrops: using nanocapillaries to understand the fundamental structure and behaviour of water

Scientists have demonstrated the existence of gravity between antimatter and Earth, reaffirming Albert Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity.

Researchers have recorded the most precise measurement yet of the magnetic moment of the muon, entering a new realm in the search for new interactions that govern our Universe.

A team of researchers from The University of Manchester have revisited in a study published in Nature one of the most ancient materials on Earth – graphite, and discovered new physics that has eluded the field for decades.

Professor Chris Parkes recently completed his term as leader of the Large Hadron Collider beauty (LHCb) experiment, one of the four large experiments at CERN’s 27km Large Hadron Collider, the world’s highest energy particle collider. 

An international team of researchers from The University of Manchester, the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research of Mainz (Germany), and the Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (ICN2, Spain), reports in a study published in …

Scientists have made a significant advancement with quantum technologies that could transform complex systems modelling with an accurate and effective approach that requires significantly reduced memory.

Two researchers from The University of Manchester have won a 2023 L’Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science UK & Ireland Rising Talents Award.

On 25 April 2023, Sir Francis Graham-Smith FRS, FRAS, FInstP., celebrated his 100th birthday. Sir Francis, or Graham as he is known to friends and colleagues, was the second Director of Jodrell Bank Observatory, taking over from Sir Bernard Lovell …

The NSSC at Manchester attracted over 600 attendees and more than 40 invited speakers.

This February sees the launch of Collision: Stories from the science of CERN, the culmination of a unique, two-year-long collaboration between fiction writers and pioneering physicists.

AI Fun academics from Manchester made a notable presence at NeurIPS Conference 2022 in New Orleans, USA.

Professor Kieran Flanagan has been awarded the 2022 Ernest Rutherford Medal and Prize by the Institute of Physics.

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has successfully approached a proton collision point for the first time since its three-year refurbishment. The successful implementation of the new Vertex Locator (VELO), which was partly built in Manchester offers a …

National Graphene Institute researcher Professor Coskun Kocabas is among six world-leading scientists shortlisted for the Institution of Engineering and Technology’s (IET) prestigious A F Harvey Engineering Research Prize, worth £350,000.

The world’s most powerful particle accelerator is ready to start delivering proton collisions to experiments at a record-breaking energy level after three years of upgrade and maintenance work.

The Large Hadron Collider beauty (LHCb) collaboration has announced the discovery of three new exotic particles.

A research team led by The University of Manchester’s National Graphene Institute (NGI) has developed a tunable graphene-based platform that allows for fine control over the interaction between light and matter in the terahertz (THz) spectrum, …

Professor Ferguson's work helped to inform the UK government during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) is investing £60 million as part of its continued support to the particle physics research community in the UK.

Astrid Weston, Patrick MacGregor and Ellen Sandford are finalists in the STEM for BRITAIN poster competition.

A team of researchers at The University of Manchester’s National Graphene Institute and the National Physical Laboratory has demonstrated that slightly twisted 2D transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) display room-temperature ferroelectricity.

Researchers at The University of Manchester may have cleared a significant hurdle on the path to quantum computing, demonstrating step-change improvements in the spin transport characteristics of nanoscale graphene-based electronic devices.

An international research team led by The University of Manchester has succeeded in observing the so-called Schwinger production of particle-antiparticle pairs from vacuum, an elusive process that normally occurs only in cosmic events. 

By crafting atomic-scale holes in atomically thin membranes, it should be possible to create molecular sieves for precise and efficient gas separation, including extraction of carbon dioxide from air, University of Manchester researchers have …

Researchers from Manchester’s National Graphene Institute (NGI) feature prominently in a new list of the most-frequently-cited academics in science over the past decade, providing more than half of The University of Manchester’s overall …

A team including researchers from The University of Manchester’s National Graphene Institute (NGI) has revealed that sonic boom and Doppler-shifted sound waves can be created in a graphene transistor, giving new insights into this advanced …

A major new physics experiment has used four complementary analyses to show no signs of a theorised fourth kind of neutrino known as the sterile neutrino. Its existence is considered a possible explanation for anomalies seen in previous physics …