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SET awardTop Physics student wins European Physics award

Neil Robinson, who graduated with a first class MPhys degree this summer, has won ‘Best Physics Student’ in the Science, Engineering & Technology Student of the Year Awards, the most important awards of their kind in Europe. Find out more.

Putting the touch into touchscreens

A force-feedback system devised by Ian Summers expoits pressure-sensitive nerves, rather than stretch-sensitive ones. It is able to simulate the feel of a range of flexible materials, including silk, hessian and fur. Find out more.

Exeter astronomer wins international award for planet discovery

Dr Jenny Patience of the University of Exeter was part of an international team that captured the first-ever image of multiple planets orbiting a star other than our own. Find out more.

Exeter astronomer wins international award for planet discovery

Dr Jenny Patience of the University of Exeter was part of an international team that captured the first-ever image of multiple planets orbiting a star other than our own. Find out more.

tilted planetsExeter astronomers discover ‘tilted planets’

Research has added to a growing evidence that several giant planets have orbits so tilted that their orbits can be perpendicular or even backwards relative to their parent star’s rotation. Find out more.

SupercomputerExeter astronomers help set astronomy record

A team from the School of Physics has helped set a new record for the most distant astronomical object yet observed: an explosion 13.1 billion light years away. The characteristics of the explosion, known as a gamma-ray burst, show that massive stars were already forming only 630 million years after the Big Bang. Find out more.

SupercomputerFunding boosts astronomy research

The University of Exeter has been awarded £186,000 funding to help tackle one of the most fundamental problems in modern astronomy – when do stars and planets form and how does it happen? The funding, which has been awarded by the Science and Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), will support high performance computing projects conducted by the University’s Astrophysics Group. Find out more.

SupercomputerExeter physicist made Royal Society University Research Fellow

Dr Sharon Jewell will use her fellowship as an opportunity to study human cells, which could help improve our understanding of major diseases like diabetes and cancer

Find out more.

Brain imagingShedding new light on brain disease

Cutting-edge optical imaging technology will help develop smart nanodrugs to treat brain diseases like schizophrenia, depression and dementia. Dr Julian Moger has developed a new optical imaging technique to monitor the transport of particles less than one thousandth of a millimetre in size within biological tissues. Find out more.

Cyphochilus beetleBeetle shell inspires brilliant white paper

An obscure species of beetle has shown how brilliant white paper could be produced in a completely new way. The team has taken inspiration from the shell of the Cyphochilus beetle to understand how to produce a new kind of white coating for paper. Find out more.

Quantum doughnutsQuantum doughnuts slow and freeze light at will

A researcher from the School of Physics has helped to find a way to use doughnut shaped by-products of quantum dots to slow and even freeze light. The research opens up a wide range of possibilities from reliable and effective light based computing to the possibility of ‘slow glass’. Find out more.

CoRoT satelliteEuropean team finds smallest transiting extrasolar planet ever

The CoRoT satellite has discovered a planet only twice as large as the Earth orbiting a star slightly smaller than the Sun. It is the smallest extrasolar planet (planet outside our solar system) whose radius has ever been measured. Find out more.

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