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OnlineRead moreMimi’s Tiny Adventure: Lab in the Library
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Wed 20 Aug 2025
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Neutron Scattering Group Early Career Meeting
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Thu 21 Aug 2025
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Fri 22 Aug 2025
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In-personRead moreMimi’s Tiny Adventure: The exhibition in London
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Wed 23 Jul 2025
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Fri 29 Aug 2025
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In-personRead moreQuantum, Atomic, and Molecular Physics (QuAMP 2025)
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Tue 2 Sep 2025
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In-personRead more62nd European High Pressure Research Group Meeting
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Sun 31 Aug 2025
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Fri 5 Sep 2025
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OnlineRead moreUnlocking the Power of Start-Ups (how start-ups can transform careers and companies): A joint webinar from the IOP and the IET
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Wed 10 Sep 2025
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HybridRead moreUK Space Weather and Space Environment Meeting III
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Mon 8 Sep 2025
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Thu 11 Sep 2025
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In-personRead moreMedical Physics in the East Midlands
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Fri 12 Sep 2025
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Fri 12 Sep 2025
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Researchers have developed an environmentally friendly technique to remove these contaminants from water …
Water loss offsets the cooling effect of aerosols in clouds
New data suggests that microscopic particulates lower the total water content of clouds, reducing aerosols’ climate-cooling effect by around 23%…
Compton camera simultaneously images PET and SPECT tracers in human body
A Si/CdTe Compton camera can image the distributions of two of the most common PET and SPECT radiopharmaceuticals at the same time …
Greening gas is not so easy
Dave Elliott ponders the outlook for green gas, leakage and the alphabet soup of P2G and SMR+CCS …
Education forums: email discussion lists
Discuss your ideas and views on these education forums. …
Convergence science centre accelerates development of innovative cancer therapies
The UK’s first convergence science centre is investigating novel cancer treatments such as tumour-liquifying microbubbles and immune cell tracking …
Bacterial nanostructures act as electron-microscope-compatible gene reporters
Different sized protein structures can be distinguished using electron microscopy, making them high-resolution analogues of the fluorescent reporter proteins used in optical microscopy …