Emma MacPherson showed the BBC team around her lab, showcasing the development of her skin scanner machine.

Congratulations to Professor Don Pollacco who has just been awarded £3 million from the ERC to develop a ‘digital telescope’ that will be capable of producing a highly sensitive continuous movie of the night sky.

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The Centre for Doctoral Training in Modelling of Heterogeneous Systems
(HetSys II), led by Professor James Kermode from the School of
Engineering, Dr Livia Bartok-Partay from Chemistry and Professor
Nicholas Hine from Physics, will train a new generation of scientists
in computational modelling. It spans seven departments and three
university research centres forming a national centre of excellence in
computational simulation, providing world class opportunities in the
West Midlands.

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Professor Steven Brown and AS CDT PhD student, Mo Rahman have published their paper with colleagues from AstraZeneca and C4X titled "Polymorph identification for Flexible Molecules: Linear Regression Analysis of Experimental and Calculated Solution- and Solid-State NMR Data."

Have you ever wondered why we have leap years?

Dr Minjae KimLink opens in a new window and Dr James McCormacLink opens in a new window from our Astronomy and Astrophysics Group explain the science behind leap years, and why it is so important that these are added to the calendar.

Find out what they said.

On Tuesday 7 November, Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell visited the university to host a guest lecture and mark the official opening of The Marsh Observatory.

The Christmas Lectures are back this year and audiences can challenge AI to write a Christmas card, discover how animals inspired engineering, explore the colour spectrum, be surprised by snow and wish Sir Isaac Newton a Happy Birthday!

The lectures are based at Warwick Arts Centre and take place on Thursday 30 November and Thursday 7 December. Get your tickets.Link opens in a new window

Professor Sandra Chapman (Director, Centre for Fusion Space and Astrophysics) has been awarded the 2024 European Geosciences Union (EGU) Hannes Alfvén medal.

On Friday 20 October, colleagues from across the department were joined by Tom's family to plant a tree in Tom's memory. The magnolia galaxy tree was planted at the new on campus observatory where the department's astronomy students will have opportunities to observe through the new telescope.

A series of videos have been developed to highlight the department's research culture.

Our department commits to a positive research culture and to highlight this Dr Sue Burrows and Dr Reza Kashtiban were granted funding from the University's Research Culture Forum with the idea of developing videos of some of our researchers.