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  • Electricity

    Lancaster physicists work with Oxford on £5.2m QuEEN project

    Lancaster is working with the University of Oxford on a £5.2m project which aims to design and develop the world’s most efficient thermoelectric material.

  • Businesses urged to tap into science and technology young talent

    Businesses are being urged to benefit from the technical knowledge and fresh ideas of leading students.

  • Lancaster winner of the UK ICT Pioneers contest 2015

    A Lancaster student has won a national competition for the excellence and commercial potential of his ICT related research.

  • Lancaster link with Nobel Prize for Neutrino Physics

    Lancaster neutrino physicists have been involved in the work of both of this year's Nobel Prize for Physics laureates, but particularly with that of Professor Arthur McDonald on both the SNO experiment for which the prize was awarded, and the successive, current SNO+ experiment.

  • Physics PhD Student wins Springer Thesis Prize

    Dmytro Iatsenko, who recently completed his PhD in the Physics Department under Professor Aneta Stefanovska, has been awarded a Springer Thesis Prize for his work on Nonlinear Mode Decomposition. The award comprises a prize of €500 and the publication of the work in the collection of outstanding Springer Theses.

  • New non-invasive skin cancer test put to the test

    Researchers have developed a new non-invasive technique which can accurately detect malignant melanoma without a biopsy.

  • 2015 Student Prizes

    Three Physics PhD students have been rewarded for their excellent work over the previous year at an end of year celebration in the Physics Department.

  • Lancaster University revolutionary quantum technology research receives funding boost

    Vastly improved medical imaging and guaranteed secure communications are a step closer following a funding boost of more than £700,000 in new quantum technology projects at Lancaster University.

  • Best Observational Evidence of First Generation Stars in the Universe

    Astronomers using ESO’s Very Large Telescope have discovered by far the brightest galaxy yet found in the early Universe and found strong evidence that examples of the first generation of stars lurk within it. These massive, brilliant, and previously purely theoretical objects were the creators of the first heavy elements in history — the elements necessary to forge the stars around us today, the planets that orbit them, and life as we know it. The newly found galaxy, labelled CR7, is three times brighter than the brightest distant galaxy known up to now.

  • REF2014 success for Lancaster Physics

    In the REF2014 Research Excellence Framework the Lancaster Physics Department was ranked 2nd in the UK for the amount of its research output judged to be of internationally leading (4 star) quality. Indeed, 28% of our publications submitted for assessment were deemed to belong in the top bracket.