Excitement for opportunity and innovation was in the air at Daresbury Laboratory, as more than 20 start-up companies participated at the CERN Knowledge Exchange workshop.

A UK business has been working with Daresbury Laboratory’s advanced engineering centre to solve some key engineering challenges in its mission to help community pharmacies save time and money.

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.