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15 January 2019
International collaboration publishes design for an even larger hadron collider at CERN: An international collaboration of scientists and engineers, including many from the UK, have submitted its Conceptual Design Report (CDR) for the Future Circular Collider (FCC).

15 January 2019
Helping unlock mysteries of rare cosmic rays: UK scientists, as part of an international team, have helped to design and build a prototype particle detector that aims to unlock some of the mysteries surrounding rare cosmic rays that enter Earth’s atmosphere from deep space.

14 January 2019
UK experts honoured in Annual Awards for Astronomy: A number of STFC-supported researchers have been honoured for significant achievements in astronomy and geophysics by the Royal Astronomical Society (RAS) in its annual awards.

Last updated: 19 April 2018

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