The teenage brain – work in progress
April 2, 2014
The University of Nottingham is taking part in a European wide study which aims to identify and learn more about the biological and environmental factors that might influence mental health in teenagers. It is recalling its 2000 volunteers for the second stage of the research. The IMAGEN Study recruited the teenagers at 14. Now, at …
The next big deal: detecting gravitational waves at your desk
March 24, 2014
Researchers at The University of Nottingham are developing desktop technology to detect the ripples in space-time that would have been created when the universe was in its infancy. Einstein’s theory of General Relativity predicts that gravitational waves would have been formed in the short time after the Big Bang, when the universe grew from the …
Study physics girls and start a revolution!
December 9, 2013
Cosmologist tells girls to reach for the stars! In many ways I am the worst person to write about why young women chose not to study physics because I have been studying physics since I picked my A-levels in 1999. I’ve never regretted that decision, it was the first step on a path that has …
Scientists go behind the scenes at Westminster
December 3, 2013
A physicist who studies the building blocks of matter and a cosmologist who delves into the evolution of the universe are spending a week at Westminster to find out how government works. They are leaving their lab and equations behind to discover how science policy is formed and to gain an understanding of the working …
BBC’s Matthew Bannister launches New Theatre appeal
November 14, 2013
This weekend, the award winning Nottingham New Theatre (NNT) welcomes BBC broadcaster and Nottingham alumnus Matthew Bannister to an event to launch a new ‘seat naming’ appeal. Remarkably for a university with no dedicated drama or theatre related course the NNT is the only entirely student run theatre in the country. Since 1969 the theatre …
World’s most powerful camera records first images in hunt for Dark Energy
September 18, 2012
The world’s most powerful digital camera has captured the very first pictures of galaxies eight billion light years away in the hunt for Dark Energy. The starlight it has captured may hold within it the answer to one of the biggest mysteries in physics. Scientists at The University of Nottingham are part of the Dark …
Launched – worms experiment on historic space mission.
May 22, 2012
Nottingham space flight veterans watched the launch of the world’s first commercial flight to the International Space Station today. The SpaceX rocket was fired into space at 3.44am EDT. Onboard is an experiment designed by American high school student Paul Warren. When he needed help putting the experiment together he knew where to go. He …
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