A team of scientists have been using a newly-developed technique at ISIS Neutron and Muon Source to investigate a selection of Roman coins minted at different times during the Empire’s history.

Every year, more than more than 300,000 patients acquire infections in hospitals and GP surgeries in England, many of which are resistant to antibiotics and extremely difficult to treat.

The annual public stargazing event returned to Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL) for the eighth year. The hugely successful and sell-out event is the biggest recurring on-site public engagement event hosted at RAL.

It’s not every day science students can step outside the classroom to go and solve a real-life engineering problem.

The new year begins with a computational chemistry PhD student from University of Oxford, William Glass, talking about how he uses computers to simulate how proteins behave and interact with each other. 

12 months of meticulous planning and international collaboration have resulted in an outstanding result for the first experiments using the ISOLDE Solenoid Spectrometer (ISS) at CERN’s nuclear physics facility.

When the Foot and Mouth Disease Virus (FMDV) struck the UK’s cattle farms in 2001 it resulted in six million animals being put to death and cost the economy £8 billion.

Drug-induced liver injury is one of the leading causes of failure for drugs in development, and is the number one cause of new drugs being withdrawn from the market.