STFC in the news

This is a selection of articles that have appeared in external publications over the past month, that raise awareness of milestones and achievements coming out of STFC research and investment.

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September 2010

• Researchers discover how to conduct first test of 'untestable' string theory (link opens in a new window)
  - Imperial College, London (01/09/2010)

August 2010

• Pupils get vital scientific work experience (link opens in a new window)
  - Oxford Mail (31/08/2010)
  
  
• From space robots to potential climate change solutions: students use work experience to get the competitive edge (link opens in a new window)
  - Process & Control Today (27/08/2010)
  
  
• UK scientists on collision course over £1bn research cuts (link opens in a new window)
  - The Guardian (26/08/2010)
  
  
• Big science feels the pinch in Europe (link opens in a new window)
  - Nature.com (24/08/2010)
  
  
• Mysteries to be unravelled in Daresbury Laboratory lecture season (link opens in a new window)
  - Runcorn and Widnes Weekly News (23/08/2010)
  
  
• Researchers make magnetic fields breakthrough (link opens in a new window)
  - PhysOrg.com (20/08/2010)
  
  
• Treasure conference features Britain’s leading Archaeologists (link opens in a new window)
  - Loughborough News (20/08/2010)
  
  
• Daresbury laboratory switches to safety with Schneider Electric (link opens in a new window)
  - Process & Control Today (17/08/2010)
  
  
• Web portal to benefit the developing world in the works (link opens in a new window)
  - Softpedia (16/08/2010)
  
  
• Particle physics used to mitigate natural disasters (link opens in a new window)
  - The University of Bristol (16/08/2010)
  
  
• ThruVision Systems's TS4 compact security body scanner can detect metallic and non-metallic threat objects concealed on still or moving subjects (link opens in a new window)
  - Security Park (16/08/2010)
  
  
• Science trip (link opens in a new window)
  - Warrington Guardian (14/08/2010)
  
  
• Lovell Telescope helps 'citizen scientists' make an exciting find (link opens in a new window)
  - The University of Manchester (13/08/2010)
  
  
• Astronomers capture spectacular new Tarantula Nebula image with VISTA (link opens in a new window)
  - Thaindian News (12/08/2010)
  
  
• Stars in their eyes: How to get children excited about space (link opens in a new window)
  - The Independent (09/08/2010)
  
  
• Experts warn of solar storm damage to mobile and GPS (link opens in a new window)
  - TechEye (04/08/2010)
  
  
• Duke of York backs Daresbury Science and Innovation Campus (link opens in a new window)
  - Liverpool Daily Post (04/08/2010)
  
  
• Blackford aims for stars with funding deal (link opens in a new window)
  - Business Scotsman.com (02/08/2010)
  
  

July 2010

• The virtually new aerospace centre (link opens in a new window)
  - Liverpool Daily Post (29/07/2010)
  
  
• More climate change research will be made public (link opens in a new window)
  - Norwich Evening News (28/07/2010)
  
  
• Shields up! Force fields could protect Mars missions (link opens in a new window)
  - New Scientist (28/07/2010)
  
  
• Academia helping firms invest for the future (link opens in a new window)
  - Fresh business thinking.com (28/07/2010)
  
  
• Scientists Narrow Search for the 'God Particle' (link opens in a new window)
  - LiveScience (27/07/2010)
  
  
• Boffins inch closer to discovering elusive 'God Particle' (link opens in a new window)
  - Thaindian News (27/07/2010)
  
  
• Deal could benefit new businesses (link opens in a new window)
  - Herald Series (26/07/2010)
  
  
• Oxfordshire students design space rover (link opens in a new window)
  - BBC News - Oxford (22/07/2010)
  
  
• Harwell deal could boost entrepreneurs (link opens in a new window)
  - Witney Gazette (22/07/2010)
  
  
• Astronomers detect 'monster star' (link opens in a new window)
  - BBC News (21/07/2010)
  
  
• UK to open Earth observation hub (link opens in a new window)
  - BBC News (21/07/2010)
  
  
• Astronomers Find Most Massive Stars To Date (link opens in a new window)
  - redOrbit (21/07/2010)
  
  
• New generation security body scanner unveiled by ThruVision Systems (link opens in a new window)
  - PhysOrg.com (19/07/2010)
  
  
• UK Space Agency to explore the Universe with Cosmic Vision (link opens in a new window)
  - Interaction.org (16/07/2010)
  
  
• Particle injection could abate climate change (link opens in a new window)
  - The Engineer (16/07/2010)
  
  
• Rabbits disrupt £1m science project in Stockbridge (link opens in a new window)
  - BBC News (15/07/2010)
  
  
• NASA awards the late Dr Timothy Hawarden for contribution to Webb Telescope (link opens in a new window)
  - PhysOrg.com (15/07/2010)
  
  
• Oxford Instruments Receive Order for Superconducting Magnets from Neutron Scattering Facilities (link opens in a new window)
  - Azom.com (14/07/2010)
  
  
• Oxford Investment Network annonunces major new sponsor (facility) (link opens in a new window)
  - Cambridge Network (14/07/2010)
  
  
• Tekdata... Turns 40 celebrates with new digs (facility) (link opens in a new window)
  - SatNews.com (13/07/2010)
  
  
• National conference on particle accelerators begins today (link opens in a new window)
  - University of Manchester (09/07/2010)
  
  
• Boost for investment in UK science and technology (link opens in a new window)
  - Interaction.org (02/07/2010)
  
  
• First Directly Imaged Planet Confirmed Around Sun-like Star (link opens in a new window)
  - Space Ref (01/07/2010)
  
  
• Hi-tech US firm makes Daresbury European R&D centre for TB detection (link opens in a new window)
  - Liverpool Echo (01/07/2010)
  
  
• UKIRT Unveils The Mysteries Of Massive Star Formation (link opens in a new window)
  - Space Daily (01/07/2010)
  
  

June 2010

• Finding the Origin of Milky Way's Ancient Stars (link opens in a new window)
  - Universe Today (29/06/2010)
  
  
• New 'Fix' for Cosmic Clocks Could Help Uncover Ripples in Space-Time (link opens in a new window)
  - Space Daily (24/06/2010)
  
  
• Just what do you think you’re doing, Dave? (link opens in a new window)
  - International Science Grid This Week (23/06/2010)
  
  
• God particle signal is simulated as sound (link opens in a new window)
  - BBC News (22/06/2010)
  
  
• Space sector could provide jobs boost to Scottish firms (link opens in a new window)
  - BBC News (21/06/2010)
  
  
• New discovery bolsters early universe theories (link opens in a new window)
  - KPUA (21/06/2010)
  
  
• Nasa solar flare space storm warning: a British scientist writes (link opens in a new window)
  - The Telegraph (18/06/2010)
  
  
• Earith technology could be employed in Geneva project (link opens in a new window)
  - Business Weekly (16/06/2010)
  
  
• UK Space Agency Funds International Mars Rover (link opens in a new window)
  - Space Daily (16/06/2010)
  
  
• The 'God particle' may exist in five forms, Large Hadron Collider's rival project finds (link opens in a new window)
  - The Telegraph (15/06/2010)
  
  
• End of the world: Will 2013 space storm kill us all off? (link opens in a new window)
  - The Metro (15/06/2010)
  
  
• New measurements from Fermilab's MINOS experiment suggest a difference in a key property of neutrinos and antineutrinos (link opens in a new window)
  - Interaction.org (14/06/2010)
  
  
• EPSRC: Lasers: past, present and future: Celebrating 50 years of impact (link opens in a new window)
  - Politics.co.uk (11/06/2010)
  
  
• Fusion Energy: Europe's Holy Grail in jeopardy (link opens in a new window)
  - Troy Media Corporation (10/06/2010)
  
  
• UK Innovation Forum launched to help tech transfer offices find business partners (link opens in a new window)
  - Science Business.net (10/06/2010)
  
  
• Telescope 'to find' space origin (link opens in a new window)
  - BBC News online (09/06/2010)
  
  
• Radio telescope searches for universe origins (link opens in a new window)
  - ITN (09/06/2010)
  
  
• Radio telescope launched in hope to find aliens (link opens in a new window)
  - Daily Star (09/06/2010)
  
  
• New tenants move to Daresbury science park (link opens in a new window)
  - Place North West (07/06/2010)
  
  
• Children welcome unusual visitor (link opens in a new window)
  - Malvern Gazette (02/06/2010)
  
  
• Life on Mars: University of Leicester to detect clues for alien existence (link opens in a new window)
  - EurekAlert (02/06/2010)
  
  
• Daresbury SIC tenants report strong sales and prospects (link opens in a new window)
  - Liverpool Daily Post (02/06/2010)
  
  
• Listening to the sound of science (link opens in a new window)
  - Symmetry magazine (01/06/2010)
  
  
• UK 1st for Yorkshire's Innovators (link opens in a new window)
  - Creative Boom (01/06/2010)
  
  

May 2010

• Urdd Eisteddfod opens at Llanerchaeron (link opens in a new window)
  - WalesOnline (31/05/2010)
  
  
• Cuts could drive the best scientific talent abroad, says Lord Rees (link opens in a new window)
  - TimesOnline (29/05/2010)
  
  
• Post-mortem of a Comet: Scientists put the Comet Wild 2 under the microscope (link opens in a new window)
  - PhysOrg.com (28/05/2010)
  
  
• Daresbury Laboratory scientists rubbish alien hi-jack claim (link opens in a new window)
  - Runcorn and Widnes Weekly News (27/05/2010)
  
  
• Coalition wants UK space lift-off (link opens in a new window)
  - BBC News (27/05/2010)
  
  
• Byotrol gets £440,000 grant for Daresbury Laboratory (link opens in a new window)
  - Crain's Manchester Business (27/05/2010)
  
  
• Taking a Narrow View of a Lopsided Galaxy (link opens in a new window)
  - Space Ref (25/05/2010)
  
  
• iPods May Soon Store 300 Million Songs (link opens in a new window)
  - Oneindia (25/05/2010)
  
  
• The year the laser celebrates its 50th anniversary (link opens in a new window)
  - Control Engineering Website (25/05/2010)
  
  
• New hunt for life from Mars (link opens in a new window)
  - Express.co.uk (25/05/2010)
  
  
• UK budget: Science wobbles, university places topple (link opens in a new window)
  - New Scientist (24/05/2010)
  
  
• New knowledge centre for chemistry opens in northwest (link opens in a new window)
  - England's Northwest (24/05/2010)
  
  
• New developments at Daresbury SIC (link opens in a new window)
  - England's Northwest (24/05/2010)
  
  
• Superconductivity breakthrough could lead to more cost effective technologies (link opens in a new window)
  - Interactions.org (24/05/2010)
  
  
• Martian meteorite may hold clues to water on the Red Planet (link opens in a new window)
  - Science Centric (24/05/2010)
  
  
• School gets a taste of Moon dust landing in the East End (link opens in a new window)
  - East London Advertiser (21/05/2010)
  
  
• LHCsound: Listening to the God particle (link opens in a new window)
  - New Scientist (20/05/2010)
  
  
• A brighter future for physics education (link opens in a new window)
  - Times Online (19/05/2010)
  
  
• How lasers will light up the future of medicine (link opens in a new window)
  - BBC News (18/05/2010)
  
  
• First TM3000 Tabletop SEM in Europe installed At Daresbury Laboratory’s Innovations & Technology Access Centre (link opens in a new window)
  - Nanotechnology News (14/05/2010)
  
  
• IBM Opens Development Laboratory in the Center of Manchester (link opens in a new window)
  - Earth Times (13/05/2010)
  
  
• Cannibalistic Galaxy Bends Light & Reveals Its Monstrous Appetite (link opens in a new window)
  - Space Ref (12/05/2010)
  
  
• Russian Space Agency set to take-off in UK (link opens in a new window)
  - Online PR News (12/05/2010)
  
  
• Lasers scan future possibilities (link opens in a new window)
  - BBC News (11/05/2010)
  
  
• Happy 50th birthday to the laser, the 'death ray' at every supermarket till (link opens in a new window)
  - Telegraph.co.uk (11/05/2010)
  
  
• 50-year old laser is only just getting started (link opens in a new window)
  - PhysOrg.com (11/05/2010)
  
  
• Neutron scattering unravels the structure of aromatic 'pi-pi' interactions (link opens in a new window)
  - Nanowerk LLC (10/05/2010)
  
  
• Herschel space telescope pierces giant star bubble (link opens in a new window)
  - BBC News (06/05/2010)
  
  
• Science masterclasses inspire Blue Coat students (link opens in a new window)
  - getreading.co.uk (05/05/2010)
  
  

April 2010

• Nasa's Solar Dynamics Observatory returns first images (link opens in a new window)
  - BBC News (21/04/2010)
  
  
• Investigation: Does the UK Space Agency have a future? (link opens in a new window)
  - Wired.co.uk (21/04/2010)
  
  
• Britain facing further bitterly cold winters 'due to drop in solar wind' (link opens in a new window)
  - Mail online (21/04/2010)
  
  
• First physics from the Large Hadron Collider's CMS detector (link opens in a new window)
  - PhysOrg.com (17/04/2010)
  
  
• Supermassive Black Holes Strip Massive Galaxies of Star-Forming Gases (link opens in a new window)
  - Science Daily (16/04/2010)
  
  
• Sun's magnetic field may have caused freezing winter (link opens in a new window)
  - Independent (15/04/2010)
  
  
• Duke of York at Daresbury Science Labs (link opens in a new window)
  - Warrington Guardian (07/04/2010)
  
  
• Nanotechnology in Packaging (link opens in a new window)
  - Nanotechnology News (01/04/2010)
  
  

March 2010

• FZD Scientists Conduct Research on Ultra-Short Electron Pulses (link opens in a new window)
  - AZoNano.com (31/03/2010)
  
  
• Scientists celebrate as Hadron Collider goes live (link opens in a new window)
  - Oxford Mail (30/03/2010)
  
  
• Government awards £100m to jewel in UK science crown (link opens in a new window)
  - Article Ant (30/03/2010)
  
  
• Diamond synchrotron secures funding for next phase (link opens in a new window)
  - Wellcome Trust (30/03/2010)
  
  
• PREMIER Mission Concept Successfully Tested (link opens in a new window)
  - Softpedia (26/03/2010)
  
  
• Research findings could revolutionise industrial catalysts (link opens in a new window)
  - PhysOrg.com (26/03/2010)
  
  
• Students queue up to learn more during Science and Engineering week STFC staff reach out to thousands (link opens in a new window)
  - Interactions.org (25/03/2010)
  
  
• Goodman proposes £40m international space centre (link opens in a new window)
  - Property Week News (24/03/2010)
  
  
• Swindon to be home for new UK space agency (link opens in a new window)
  - This is Wiltshire.co.uk (23/03/2010)
  
  
• Experts discover Peter Crouch of stars (link opens in a new window)
  - The Northern Echo (22/03/2010)
  
  
• Early galaxy went through 'teenage growth spurt' scientists say (link opens in a new window)
  - PhysOrg.com (21/03/2010)
  
  
• The gel that could end the misery of cleft palates (link opens in a new window)
  - Daily Mail (19/03/2010)
  
  
• Old Galaxy Seen Creating Stars at Frantic Rate (link opens in a new window)
  - Softpedia (19/03/2010)
  
  
• Hubble's successor one step closer to completion (link opens in a new window)
  PhysOrg.com (18/03/2010)
  
  
• Thesis on ultraviolet skin exposure takes award (link opens in a new window)
  - Irish Times (18/03/2010)
  
  
• Planck Space Observatory Unveils the Coldest Regions of Our Galaxy (link opens in a new window)
  - Insciences Organisation (17/03/2010)
  
  
• Solar study man in Swindon Thursday 18 March (link opens in a new window)
  - Swindon Link (16/03/2010)
  
  
• 'No science cuts? I'll throw a party' (link opens in a new window)
  - Times Higher Education (12/03/2010)
  
  
• Particle accelerators and bamboo bikes (link opens in a new window)
  - Times Online (12/03/2010)
  
  
• Shocking Recipe For Making Killer Electrons (link opens in a new window)
  - RedOrbit (11/03/2010)
  
  
• Cautious welcome on science funding (link opens in a new window)
  - Witney Gazette (11/03/2010)
  
  
• News in brief (link opens in a new window)
  - Times Higher Education (11/03/2010)
  
  
• Science 'is a key election issue' (link opens in a new window)
  - BBC News (10/03/2010)
  
  
• Jodrell Bank plans new 'live science' visitor centre (link opens in a new window)
  - University of Manchester (10/03/2010)
  
  
• LHC to shut down for a year to address safety concerns (link opens in a new window)
  - BBC News (10/03/2010)
  
  
• Cameras to enhance cancer diagnosis (link opens in a new window)
  - The Engineer (10/03/2010)
  
  
• Battling the axe-man (link opens in a new window)
  - The Economist (09/03/2010)
  
  
• Perception filter (link opens in a new window)
  - The Engineer (08/03/2010)
  
  
• STFC funding revamped to protect national facilities (link opens in a new window)
  - Times Higher Education (06/03/2010)
  
  
• Lord Drayson Lays Out New Arrangements To Provide Stability In Research Funding (link opens in a new window)
  - eGov monitor (05/03/2010)
  
  
• How to save the Earth via the World Wide Web (link opens in a new window)
  - BBC News (05/03/2010)
  
  
• Controlling Implosion Symmetry Around a Deuterium-Tritium Target (link opens in a new window)
  - Science (05/03/2010)
  
  
• New organisation to coordinate European scientific computing grids (link opens in a new window)
  - CORDIS (05/03/2010)
  
  
• UK physicists welcome research council reforms (link opens in a new window)
  - PhysicsWorld.com (04/03/2010)
  
  
• Could radical surgery save UK physics funding agency? (link opens in a new window)
  - Nature.com (04/03/2010)
  
  
• Lord Drayson's plan to save the STFC (link opens in a new window)
  - Times Online (04/03/2010)
  
  
• Promise made on UK physics woes (link opens in a new window)
  - BBC News (04/03/2010)
  
  
• New organisation to coordinate European scientific computing grids (link opens in a new window)
  - Cordis News (04/03/2010)
  
  
• Is the UK aiming for the stars - or going for re-entry? (link opens in a new window)
  - LabnewsOnline (04/03/2010)
  
  
• Construction begins on Daresbury Science and Innovation Campus (link opens in a new window)
  - Click Liverpool (03/03/2010)
  
  
• Researchers Predict Earthquake Devastation (link opens in a new window)
  - Laboratory Equipment (03/03/2010)
  
  
• Nuclear physics promises earlier detection of brain tumors with just 1 scan (link opens in a new window)
  - EurekAlert (03/03/2010)
  
  
• Nice to meet you, authentically (link opens in a new window)
  - International Science Grid This Week (03/03/2010)
  
  
• Construction begins on next phase of Daresbury Science and Innovation Campus (link opens in a new window)
  - Northwest Regional Development Agency (03/03/2010)
  
  
• Researchers Predict Earthquake Devastation (link opens in a new window)
  - Laboratory Equipment (03/03/2010)
  
  
• How to turn a scientist into an entrepreneur (link opens in a new window)
  - FT.com (01/03/2010)
  
  
• From the lab to a profit in seven years (link opens in a new window)
  - FT.com (01/03/2010)
  
  

February 2010

• First observation of T2K neutrino event at Super-Kamiokande (link opens in a new window)
  - Astronomy.com (26/02/2010)
  
  
• NanoKTN announces Nanomission 2010 (link opens in a new window)
  - Laboratory Talk (25/02/2010)
  
  
• Apprentice's 'James Bond' role (link opens in a new window)
  - Witney Gazette (25/02/2010)
  
  
• University hope is dealt harsh blow (link opens in a new window)
  - Swindon Advertiser (25/02/2010)
  
  
• Nuclear power plant could be built near Didcot (link opens in a new window)
  - Oxford Mail (23/02/2010)
  
  
• Scientists Launch Solar Stormwatch To Ask Public For Help In Understanding The Sun (link opens in a new window)
  - RealWire (23/02/2010)
  
  
• Ensuring gas works (link opens in a new window)
  - The Engineer (22/02/2010)
  
  
• First physics from the Large Hadron Collider's CMS detector (link opens in a new window)
  - PhysOrg.com (17/02/2010)
  
  
• Don't turn good scientists into poor entrepreneurs (link opens in a new window)
  - New Scientist (15/02/2010)
  
  
• The Many Colors of Star Birth (link opens in a new window)
  - Space Ref (11/02/2010)
  
  
• Harwell scientists help Nasa get some Sun (link opens in a new window)
  - Oxford Mail (10/02/2010)
  
  
• Solar observatory set for launch (link opens in a new window)
  - BBC News (10/02/2010)
  
  
• Tech-X sets up at Daresbury SIC (link opens in a new window)
  - Crain's Manchester Business (08/02/2010)
  
  
• A sense of perspective on the UK's strengths (link opens in a new window)
  - The Engineer (08/02/2010)
  
  
• Daresbury Science & Innovation Campus opens tailored R&D facilities for small firms sector (link opens in a new window)
  - Liverpool Echo (05/02/2010)
  
  
• Cassini mission to Saturn is to lose British involvement (link opens in a new window)
  - Times online (05/02/2010)
  
  
• UK will no longer boldly go in space (http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/letters/article7015431.ecel)
  - Times online (05/02/2010)
  
  
• Our scanners beat the terror bombers (link opens in a new window)
  - Oxford Mail (04/02/2010)
  
  
• Cassini flies on but with UK involvement in doubt (link opens in a new window)
  - BBC News (04/02/2010)
  
  
• The STFC: what went wrong (link opens in a new window)
  - New Scientist (04/02/2010)
  
  
• Refusal to comply on impact failing to sink grant applications (link opens in a new window)
  - Times Higher Education (04/02/2010)
  
  
• New Technique for Detecting Earth-like Planets (link opens in a new window)
  - Space Ref (03/02/2010)
  
  
• IDC Leads Consortium Awarded Contract to Help Develop Supercomputing Strategy for the European Union (link opens in a new window)
  - Earthtimes (03/02/2010)
  
  
• NASA satellite to send avalanche of hi-res Sun shots (link opens in a new window)
  - NetworkWorld.com (02/02/2010)
  
  
• New neutron studies support magnetism's role in superconductors (link opens in a new window)
  - Nanowerk LLC (02/02/2010)
  
  
• Scientists warn solar activity could hit London 2012 Olympic Games (link opens in a new window)
  - Times Online (02/02/2010)
  
  

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