Author: UKRI

A team of scientists led by RAL Space, operated by the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) and Imperial College London has created the deepest ever image of the Universe in long far-infrared wavelengths, revealing almost 2,000 distant galaxies. The resulting image is called the Herschel-SPIRE Dark Field. The research suggests the existence of a […]

The A Large Ion Collider Experiment (ALICE), ATLAS, Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS), and Large Hadron Collider beauty (LHCb) collaborations at CERN’s LHC have been awarded the prestigious Breakthrough Prize in fundamental physics. Celebrating extraordinary achievements Professor Sinead Farrington, Director of Particle Physics at Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), said: The Breakthrough Prize celebrates extraordinary […]

A team at the National Satellite Test Facility (NSTF) has completed its first direct field acoustic noise (DFAN) tests on components for the Ariel space telescope, a European Space Agency-led project. Ariel will study the chemistry of around 1,000 planets outside our solar system. The component tested was the telescope baffle’s engineering qualification model (EQM), […]

The Department for Science, Innovation and Technology’s (DSIT) Allocations publication outlines how the research and development budget will be distributed amongst DSIT’s partner organisations over the financial year 2025 to 2026. You can read the announcement on their website. This allocation safeguards the core capacity and capability of the UK research and innovation ecosystem and enables investment […]

Three North West start-ups are on a mission to transform healthcare using AI at the Science and Technology Facilities Council’s (STFC) Daresbury Laboratory. Decently, Talk It Out and Leaf AI are among the most recent businesses to locate to Daresbury Laboratory, joining one of the UK’s most successful networks of Business Incubation Centres (BICs). From […]

The gender pay gap is a measure across all jobs in UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), not of the difference in pay between males and females for doing the same job. UKRI’s mean gender pay gap (GPG) has narrowed by 0.6 percentage points since 2022.The figures show that in 2024, UKRI’s mean gender pay gap […]

How new technologies are improving many aspects of our world from plastics recycling to food production and consumption, to transport and communication are highlighted in a new collection of projects funded by UKRI. The technologies are all supported through UKRI’s Technology Missions Fund which is investing over £320 million in: artificial intelligence (AI) quantum technologies […]

Further information UK involvement in DESI DESI is an international project with more than 900 researchers from over 70 institutions around the world and is managed by the US Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab). UK involvement in DESI includes Durham University, UCL and the University of Portsmouth as full member institutions, […]

The ISIS Neutron and Muon Source has announced the winners of its prestigious Impact Awards, recognising outstanding contributions in the economy, society and science. These awards celebrate wide-reaching and impactful research and discoveries at the ISIS facility, which have significantly advanced our understanding and improved various aspects of life. The ISIS Neutron and Muon Source […]

Working with European cities European cities are experiencing increasingly severe heatwaves and rising air pollution, posing major risks to public health and urban liveability. In 2024, record-breaking temperatures affected Europe, prompting cities like London and Milan to introduce emergency measures against dangerous pollution levels. In response, a new EU-funded initiative, UrbanAIR (Urban simulation for air […]