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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.

12 March 2019
UK becomes home to the HQ of the new international organisation behind the World's biggest ever radio telescope: At a treaty signing in Rome today the UK has formally 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).