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A world-leading science organisation

10 July 2019
UK World Heritage Site officially becomes home to the HQ of the Earth's biggest ever radio telescope: Jodrell Bank in the UK has today officially become the home of the new international organisation behind what will soon be the World’s biggest ever radio telescope – the Square Kilometre Array (SKA).

17 April 2019
STFC director honoured by the Royal Society: Dr Andrew Taylor, most recently the Executive Director of STFC’s National Laboratories, has been elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society for his exceptional contribution to science.

26 March 2019
Upgraded detectors to resume Nobel Prize winning hunt for gravitational waves: UK astrophysicists are gearing up to resume the search for gravitational waves, the ripples in spacetime caused by some of the universe’s most spectacular events, after substantial upgrades to the three global detectors mean that they will be able to survey an even larger volume of space than ever before for powerful, wave-making events, such as the collisions of black holes.