Joel captures Mars on closest approach
November 9, 2020
Amazing footage of the rotation of Mars captured by astronomy PhD student Joel Miller and featured on BBC News. Joel (MSci Physics with Astronomy, 2017) has previously featured in this blog for more sporting reasons, but has been finding other ways to keep busy during lockdown by returning to a love of astrophotography. Catching Frisbees …
Nottingham physicists develop a wearable brain scanner
March 23, 2018
Exciting results out of the University of Nottingham magnetoencephalography (MEG) lab appeared in the prestigious journal Nature this week in a research paper entitled ‘Moving magnetoencephalography towards real-world applications with a wearable system‘. In the accompanying video, Dr. Matt Brookes and Nottingham PhD students Elena Boto and Niall Holmes explain how the combination of quantum sensors, …