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Season's Greetings from all of us at STFC ✨🌲🎅

After another year of hard work and great achievements, we wish all of our community a very merry Christmas to those who celebrate it and a happy New Year.

We're taking a social media break and will be back on 06 Jan 👋

1/14 At the recent grant awards for the Africa-UK Physics Partnership Programme (AUPP) physicists from the UK and Africa were brought together to select 13 projects to tackle climate challenges, funding disparities and skills imbalances across Africa.

Awarded projects below 🔽

The @HartreeCentre has partnered up with @IBM and @UKAEAofficial, to work on designing future experimental fusion powerplants.

Find out more about the collaboration here: ukri.org/news/a-new-par…

One of our Ernest Rutherford Fellows recently appeared on episode 5 of BBC's Solar System with Brian Cox and PBS.

Dr James O'Donoghue shared his research into the erosion of Saturn's rings and how Saturn's gravitational pull is a key catalyst for it.

bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episod…

Huge congratulations to all of our apprentices who were recognised at our apprenticeship awards recently. Every year is hard to choose winners, which is why the event is a celebration of all of you! Read more: linkedin.com/pulse/celebrat…

Partly supported by @STFC_Matters this new research has implications for understanding Earth’s uniqueness, and for the search for life on planets outside our Solar System. @cambridge_astro

Happy Antarctica Day! ❄️

#DYK that by non-invasively examining the cores of meteorites found in Antarctica, @isisneutronmuon brings us one step closer to understanding our early Solar System where these meteorites were formed ☄️

Learn more ▶ isis.stfc.ac.uk/Pages/SH23_Met…

The Research Infrastructure for Conservation and Heritage Science (RICHeS) HQ has landed at @SciTecDaresbury as a new neighbour to our @DaresburyLab.

Learn more about how this programme, funded by @ahrcpress, could transform heritage science 👉👉 youtu.be/o2yBJKvPP8Y?si…

The @SKAO and STFC have now agreed to lay the foundation of the SKAO Africa Programme, aimed at developing human capital across the African continent in radio astronomy and related fields such as computer science. 📡

Learn more 👉 ukri.org/news/skao-afri…

We are delighted to announce that @SKAO and STFC have signed a memorandum of understanding with the goal of establishing an SKAO Africa Programme in the next 12 months. 📡🎉

Learn more 👉 skao.int/en/news/591/sk…

A manuscript submitted by colleagues at @DaresburyLab and @OfficialUoM to @AIP_Publishing has been chosen as Editor's Pick!

Congratulations as your research on dissipative particle dynamics and polarizable solvents gains recognition👏 Read the work here: pubs.aip.org/aip/jcp/articl…

The Health Tech Business Incubation Centre, a new business support centre aiming to commercialise businesses in health and life science research, is to be based at STFC’s Daresbury Laboratory: ukri.org/news/health-te…

We rounded off Tomorrow's Engineers Week with an inspiring event for sixth form students at Diamond Light Source

We're reaching the end of the UN's International Week of Science and Peace ☮️

Check out our Particle Physics Department's posts on the history of science as a power for international peace and co-operation.

There's clean, and then there's potentially world record breakingly clean✨

Today is Hollywood star Hedy Lamarr's birthday. We want to honour her often overlooked contribution to modern day digital connectivity.

Her invention of radio "frequency-hopping" was only recognised 50 years after its design when it was incorporated into mobile phones.

#WiSTEM

Today we’re at #QuantumShowcase24 with five STFC and @EPSRC technology outputs on display from the Quantum Technologies for Fundamental Physics programme.

Read on below to find out more about each.
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On Marie Curie's birthday, we remember the astounding contributions she has made to radiation studies, laying the groundwork for research and discoveries today.

#WiSTEM

Curious about the Universe?

Here are some of our top Medium reads, exploring the mysteries of dark matter, quantum and more...

Big Science at STFC – Medium

Many congratulations to Mark Thomson, STFC’s outgoing Executive Chair, on his appointment as @CERN’s next Director General.

We look forward to working with him to build on 70 years of UK involvement in discovery, collaboration and excellence at CERN.

#UKatCERN