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  • STFC Daresbury Laboratory's ALICE accelerates to 4 million volt milestone

    ... first high-energy beam is a significant step forward for the scientists and engineers at STFC Daresbury Laboratory who can now move on to commissioning the full accelerator system and demonstrating ...
  • LIGO observations probe the dynamics of the crab pulsar

    ... Physics and partners in the United Kingdom funded by the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC). The next major milestone for LIGO is the Advanced LIGO Project, slated for operation in ...
  • Accretion discs show their true colors

    ... , located in the Atacama Desert, in Chile, as well as several other telescopes, including STFC's UKIRT. The standard picture of the accretion disc is therefore vindicated. The authors believe that ...
  • The quiet explosion

    ... light, X- or gamma-rays. In the early afternoon (in Europe) of 9 January 2008, the NASA/STFC/ASI Swift telescope discovered serendipitously a 5-minute long burst of X-rays coming from within the ...
  • A world-leading UK science project switches on first neutrons

    ... an incredible technical achievement by our staff and demonstrates how everyone can pull together and enable STFC to deliver massive science projects that underpin the long-term future of science and ...
  • X-rays use diamonds as a window to the center of the Earth

    ... Juina area are particularly renowned for these mineral inclusions. At the Synchrotron Radiation Source (SRS) at the STFC Daresbury Laboratory, the team used an intense beam of x-rays to look at the ...
  • Solved: Mystery Of How Young Stars Can Be Near Black Holes

    ... St Andrews and Edinburgh. The team, partly funded by the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), made the discovery after developing computer simulations of giant clouds of gas being sucked ...
  • The double firing burst

    ... is only about once a decade," added his colleague Cristiano Guidorzi. GRB 080319B was detected by the NASA/STFC/ASI Swift satellite towards the constellation of Boötes, the "Herdsman". A host of ...
  • Cloud radar -- predicting the weather more accurately

    ... civil airports and military air bases. Developed over 10 years by researchers and engineers at the STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, in collaboration with the Met Office, the Cloud Radar can take ...
  • Secrets from within planets pave way for cleaner energy

    ... power lasers to find solutions to astrophysical issues is an area that has been highly active at STFC for some time. We are very excited that the Vulcan laser has contributed to such a significant ...
  • 'Missing link' galaxies discovered

    ... the larger galaxies — presumably because the smaller ones are transformed more quickly." Meghan Gray, STFC Advanced Fellow at The University of Nottingham and leader of the STAGES survey, added: " ...
  • Sweet molecule could lead us to alien life

    ... of life. Professor Keith Mason, Chief Executive of the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), said, "The discovery of an organic sugar molecule in a star forming region of space is very ...
  • 'Intelligent' materials to revolutionize surgical implants

    ... after accolades. A team of researchers, led by the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), has received a Medical Futures Innovation Award for its high technology process designed to coat ...
  • Hubble finds carbon dioxide on an extrasolar planet

    ... London, who holds a prestigious Aurora Fellowship at the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) says: "In the terrestrial planets of our solar system, CO2 plays a crucial role in the ...
  • Wobbly planets could reveal Earth-like moons

    ... , whose work is funded by the UK's Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), has found that such moons can be revealed by looking at wobbles in the velocity of the planets they orbit. His ...

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