Author: UKRI

As the Vera C Rubin Observatory prepares to showcase its stunning first images on 23 June 2025, researchers across the UK are celebrating their role in the most ambitious sky survey to date. The Rubin Observatory’s Legacy Survey of Space and Time, or LSST, will reveal the secrets of the cosmos over the next decade, […]

The Local Innovation Partnerships Fund will provide up to £500 million in funding for those who know their community best to work in partnership with: local authorities local businesses local researchers and innovators It is designed to attract a further £1 billion additional investment, including from the private sector, and £700 million of additional value […]

The Cambridge x Manchester Innovation Partnership will create a cross-UK innovation network. It will pilot new approaches to drive growth in a range of different sectors championed by the universities, from discovering new medicine to improving the resilience of UK infrastructure. Improving lives and livelihoods The partnership not only shines a spotlight on what Cambridge […]

The event brought together over 70 elite investors, entrepreneurs and innovation stakeholders at STFC’s Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell Campus. It connected them with startups in quantum computing, space technology and cleantech sectors. These are sectors where the UK aims to establish global leadership. The event featured a keynote address from Lord Vallance, UK Minister for […]

The UK spin-out register marks a step-change in the depth of insights possible about these important ventures. New and innovative data Research England today welcomes the launch of the UK’s first spin-out register by the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA), part of Jisc. The register has been developed with expertise from the Policy Evidence Unit […]

UK scientists have played a key role in achieving the world’s most precise measurement of a mysterious property of the muon, a subatomic particle that could help reveal new physics beyond our current understanding. The breakthrough was announced by the international Muon g-2 collaboration at Fermilab, the US Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. […]

The EDI action plan outlines steps that will be taken towards creating and sustaining the conditions for a diverse and inclusive research and knowledge exchange system in the higher education sector. Evidence-led and outcomes focused Delivery of our action plan builds on Research England’s long-standing commitment to advancing equality, diversity and inclusion across the research […]

ILL operations are governed by protocols signed by the Associate Countries. The sixth ILL Protocol was signed by the governments of the Associate Countries in 2021, extending the original 1967 Intergovernmental Convention for a further 10-year period, from 2024 to 2033. The protocol represents a global investment of about €1 billion. However, operation beyond the end […]

The international research collaboration was led by the University of Rostock and the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR). They used complementary technologies from the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) and the European X-ray Free Electron Laser (XFEL) to create and measure liquid carbon. Liquid carbon is a substance that can be found in the interior of […]

The first light for project HiLUX was achieved on its Ultra infrared laser system, with the Artemis extreme-ultraviolet laser system expected to switch on later this year. This change boosts the laser’s power by 10 to 100 times, making it possible to create secondary light sources. From low-energy terahertz to high-energy extreme ultraviolet, scientists can […]