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Call for nominations

Light and Dark Matters: IOP at the Tate Modern

Photos from the IOP’s 2015 Awards Dinner

1 December 2015

Scientists have developed a new method to model heatwave magnitude that takes both the duration and the intensity of the heatwave into account

Credit: Daniel Xu

Winners of the Best Practice in Professional Development awards
Winners of the Best Practice in Professional Development awards announced!

Latest news from the LHC date change
Please note that that the date for this lecture in Manchester has changed to 16 February 2016

Using physics to forecast the weather and white Christmases
9 Dec, 6pm. Manchester Metropolitan University Business School, M15 6HB.

Low Temperature Techniques Course
Registration deadline: 9 December 2015

Physics Fest Ipswich
Family fun day. Northgate High School

1962 A Boeing 707 crashes after being struck by positive lightning, a phenomenon not accounted for in safety standards
2010 SpaceX becomes the first private company to launch, orbit and recover a spacecraft, the SpaceX Dragon

Physics in Perspective
Watch talks from well-renowned physicists at our lecture series; you may even learn a thing or two
Schools lecture series
The schools lectures feature topics from the Olympics to rock music. Plenty of physics to learn too!