Pages tagged with: physics
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University scientists welcome Nobel Prize award in laser physics
Researchers in laser physics at the University of Plymouth have welcomed the announcement that colleagues in their field have been awarded the 2018 Nobel Prize for Physics
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Robotics, Physics and Data Science: the foundation of future economic growth | Research Festival 2021
What’s on at the University of Plymouth - Research Festival 2021: Robotics, Physics and Data Science: the foundation of future economic growth. Wednesday 30 June
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Shelf sea dynamics
University of Plymouth research: Continental shelf seas are extremely important because of the high levels of primary productivity that they sustain and their ability to absorb atmospheric gases including climatically important greenhouse gases.
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Particle characterisation
University of Plymouth research: Suspended in the waters of rivers, estuaries, coastal seas and the open oceans are tiny particles of sediment, small animals and tiny plants as well as a range of dead and decaying detritus.
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Bio-physical interactions
University of Plymouth research: Bio-Physical interactions encompass the manner by which various marine life forms are influenced by their surrounding physical environment.
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Ground-breaking research could challenge underlying principles of physics
University of Plymouth news: An international team of physicists, including a University academic, has published research on the decay of subatomic particles called kaons – which could change how scientists understand the formation of the universe.
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Scientists awarded funding to investigate quantum physics using intense lasers
Scientists at the University of Plymouth are embarking on a £450,000 project, funded largely through a grant from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, to investigate fundamental quantum physics using intense lasers
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Scientists receive $1.3 million to study new propulsion idea for spacecraft
Dr Mike McCulloch, from the University of Plymouth, has received $1.3million from the United States Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) for a four-year study into his idea of quantised inertia (QI)
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Scientists create light of record-breaking energy in extreme laser physics experiment
An international team of physicists, including academics at the University of Plymouth, have created gamma rays of record-breaking energy by hitting electrons travelling close to the speed of light with an intense laser beam
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Conference presentations
Plymouth University: Conference presentations by the Marine Physics Research Group
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Journal publications
Plymouth University: Journal publications by the Marine Physics Research Group
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Could particles and pianos combine to provide greater understanding of the laws of physics?
Data generated by the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Switzerland are to be transformed into music through a ground-breaking project involving researchers at the University of Plymouth, the MIT Media Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
