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Award for "outstanding" scientist
Dr Sarah Badman has been hailed as “one of the top early-career planetary physicists in the world” after being awarded a prize by the Royal Astronomical Society.
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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.
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Lancaster Physics on BBC News: 'Nano-scale 'fingerprint' could boost security'
Scientists have discovered a way to authenticate or identify any object by generating an unbreakable ID based on atoms.
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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.
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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.
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Funding kick-starts science and technology innovations
Cancer treatments, educational Minecraft software and space weather monitors are just some of the Lancaster University science and technology research and development projects being backed by a £50,000 innovation fund.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.