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Life that fell between the cracks: mining the fingerprints of alien life

The north east of England might seem to be a strange place to search for alien life but, more than a kilometre beneath the surface, at…

6 min readMay 3, 2024

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Life that fell between the cracks: mining the fingerprints of alien life

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The future of UK science shines bright

Imagine a tool so powerful it could unlock the secret movements of the atomic world and open a window into the very fabric of matter. This…

2 min readApr 30, 2024

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The future of UK science shines bright

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Fluorescent nanoparticles: the super-powered cell mapper

In a surprising scientific crossover, nanoparticles designed for use in solar panels to harness the light of the Sun could be used to shine…

5 min readMar 15, 2024

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Fluorescent nanoparticles: the super-powered cell mapper

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Meet the women charting unusual paths to discovery

A hobby crafter, horse-riding instructor, and beauty therapist walk into a world-leading science facility… no it’s not a set up for a joke…

6 min readMar 7, 2024

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Meet the women charting unusual paths to discovery

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Underground Science: Exploring the Large Hadron Collider

My name’s Emma Hattersley, I study physics and I’m currently on a year-long industrial placement at the STFC Particle Physics Department…

8 min readFeb 26, 2024

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Underground Science: Exploring the Large Hadron Collider

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Sick plants, your drone doctor will see you now

If you want to stop plant disease in its tracks, it’s essential that the damage is diagnosed as quickly as possible. To do that, you can…

5 min readFeb 13, 2024

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Sick plants, your drone doctor will see you now

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How the neutron was discovered (or, how small stuff hit the big time)

Without both the neutron and proton matter as we know it couldn’t exist, but it was the show-stealing positively-charged proton that…

5 min readFeb 7, 2024

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How the neutron was discovered (or, how small stuff hit the big time)

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Walking the Planck: the weird world of the littlest measure

Can there be a distance too small to measure or a moment of time so brief that it can’t be timed? Welcome to the weird quantum world of…

6 min readJan 12, 2024

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Walking the Planck: the weird world of the littlest measure

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Deep into that dark(matter)ness peering

Who doesn’t want a tenuously halloween-themed comic strip to celebrate the weirdness of dark matter on the day tenuously linked to…

2 min readOct 24, 2023

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Deep into that dark(matter)ness peering

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What is dark matter?

Explore the mystery of dark matter with our print-out-and-keep infographic guides (you don’t have to print it out, you can just look at it…

3 min readOct 24, 2023

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What is dark matter?

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Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC)

From investigating Universe-spanning ripples in the fabric of space and time to exploring the quantum world… welcome to Big (and Small) Science at STFC.

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