News from 2016
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Physics students win Women Into Science prizes
Two Physics students have been awarded the Ede & Ravenscroft Women into Science Prize for 2016. This £1000 prize rewards female students for their outstanding academic achievement in science subjects in which they have been traditionally underrepresented.
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Distant galaxies glow bright in oxygen
Astronomers have cast light on how young galaxies ionise oxygen in the early Universe and its effects on the evolution of galaxies through time.
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Top 10 successes in The Times and Sunday Times
Physics at Lancaster has maintained its top 10 ranking for the subject in the 2017 Good University Guide, published by The Times and Sunday Times.
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Lancaster Physics takes step towards a quantum description of compact laser pulses
Working on the development of table-top particle accelerators as part of the Alpha-X project, Lancaster’s Prof. Robin Tucker has been developing the first step towards a quantum description of extremely short pulses of laser light.
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Physics PhD Student wins Springer Thesis Prize
Claire Tinker, who recently completed her PhD in the Physics Department under Professor Oleg Kolosov and David Allsop from Biomedial and Life Sciences, has been awarded a Springer Thesis Prize for her work on the application of Physical methods for nanoscale imaging and charaterisation of amyloids.
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Science & Technology Departments amongst the top 10 for student satisfaction
Lancaster University is ranked amongst the UK’s best for student satisfaction in the 2016 National Student Survey.
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Physicist brings scientific discovery to major music festival
From the physics of fireworks to livestreaming from CERN, science met music at WOMAD’s first Physics Pavilion.
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Insight into how cancer cells behave abnormally
Scientists at Lancaster University have shed light on the metabolic switch observed in abnormal cells like cancer.
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Why Galaxies Stop Creating Stars: nature vs nurture
Astronomers have studied 70,000 galaxies across cosmic time to find out why some cease generating stars.
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Let there be light: a team of super-bright galaxies in the early Universe
Astronomers have shed further light on the evolution of the early Universe with the discovery of a team of super-bright galaxies.