150 years ago, Russian chemist, Dmitrii Mendeleev, first presented his idea to organise all the known elements into a handy table according to their atomic number, electrons and properties. Periodic Law, as he called his system, transformed science.
Professor Christoph Hoerl explains why the concept of time is one of the most enduring themes in philosophy, and why we are still nowhere near finished resolving the puzzles it raises.
Panspermia. No, it’s not the name of the alien world explored in the new series of Dr Who. It is the idea that life could spread throughout the Universe, transferred by material floating through space.
What can women do for engineering and what can engineering do for the world? We ask some of our high profile women engineers.
Professor Sandra Chapman knows a lot about complex systems. She is a plasma physicist working in space science and laboratory systems and is Director of the Centre for Fusion, Space and Astrophysics. She has been selected as one of two 2017/18 Lloyds of London Fulbright Scholars and this year she will be working in the USA on the impact of space weather on earth's systems.
Danny Steeghs of the University of Warwick's Astronomy and Astrophysics Group and his fellow researchers and collaborators designed and built a telescope to see the origins of exotic cosmic explosions but the instrument is now operational and sending back data from La Palma in the Canary Islands.
Space – it’s the final frontier and all that, and since 2006 students at the University of Warwick have been making steady steps to get there through the Warwick University Satellite Project (WUSAT).
A diamond is a rare and precious find which has been treasured by humans for thousands of years. It’s the gift of love; a luxury product; an iconic badge of the glamourous. Or is it more important than that? Researchers at the University of Warwick, and collaborating universities across the UK, are proving that a diamond is much more than just a sparkly bauble. Scientists can grow synthetic diamond in the lab with the vision of using it in a huge range of innovative applications.
