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Engineers discover way to turn organic waste into renewable biofuel additives using radiation

“Engineers at Lancaster University have led research that discovers a way to generate renewable biofuel additives, using radiation that could be derived from nuclear waste. The renewable proportion of petrol is set to increase to 20 per cent over the …

Scientists reveal how landmark CFC ban gave planet fighting chance against global warming

“Without the global CFC ban we would already be facing the reality of a ‘scorched earth’, according to researchers measuring the impact of the Montreal Protocol. Their new evidence reveals the planet’s critical ability to absorb carbon from the …

Researchers kick-start magnetic spin waves at nanoscale in pursuit of low energy computing

“An international team from Delft, Lancaster, Nijmegen, Kiev and Salerno has demonstrated a new technique to generate magnetic waves that propagate through the material at a speed much faster than the speed of sound. These so-called spin waves produce a …

Lancaster scientists part of team to discover support for disputed universal truth of particle physics

“A measurement of a fundamental principle of the standard model of particle physics — lepton flavour universality — captured by the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider, is reported in a paper published in Nature Physics. The findings supersede the long-standing …

How physics breaks down in a black hole

“One of the most cherished laws of physics - the conservation of charge - has come under fire in “startling” research by physicists. The paper by Dr Jonathan Gratus from Lancaster University and Dr Paul Kinsler and Professor Martin McCall from Imperial …

Developing a new AI early warning system for flooding

“Lancaster University researchers are developing new artificial intelligence systems that could help to predict and warn of flooding. Professor Plamen Angelov leads a collaborative project with the European Space Agency’s Φ-lab to develop a new AI system that will …

Brand new physics of superconducting metals refuted by Lancaster physicists

“Lancaster scientists have demonstrated that other physicists’ recent “discovery” of the field effect in superconductors is nothing but hot electrons after all. A team of scientists in the Lancaster Physics Department have found new and compelling evidence that the observation …

Scientists manipulate magnets at the atomic scale

“Fast and energy-efficient future data processing technologies are on the horizon after an international team of scientists successfully manipulated magnets at the atomic level. Physicist Dr Rostislav Mikhaylovskiy from Lancaster University said: “With stalling efficiency trends of current technology, new …

Why there is no speed limit in the superfluid universe

“Physicists from Lancaster University have established why objects moving through superfluid helium-3 lack a speed limit in a continuation of earlier Lancaster research. Helium-3 is a rare isotope of helium, in which one neutron is missing. It becomes superfluid at …

Smart molecules could be key to computers with 100-times bigger memories

“Computer hard drives of the future could be made up of smart molecules. Researchers have discovered a single molecule ‘switch’ that can act like a transistor and offers the potential to store binary information – such as the 1s and 0s …