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A simulated image of two colliding supermassive black holes emitting gravitational waves.

Using small black holes to find big black holes

6 August 2024

International team exposes loophole in gravitational waves signal to reveal presence of supermassive black hole binaries 

Ariel

AI quest to shed light on distant planets

2 August 2024

Cardiff researchers play major part in international space data challenge

Children playing in Techniquest

What can children teach us about the neuroscience of curiosity?

31 July 2024

Neuroscientists work with primary schools to understand how curiosity impacts learning and memory

An image of blurry blue light trails converging on a vanishing point against a black background.

Sci-fi spaceships could create gravitational wave bursts within range of future detectors, scientists say

30 July 2024

International team simulate gravitational waves generated from “warp drive” collapse

An artist’s impression of jellyfish like creatures swimming in a shallow sea.

Complex life on Earth began around 1.5 billion years earlier than previously thought, new study claims

29 July 2024

Scientists say unique episode of underwater volcanic activity produced nutrient-rich ‘lab’ for experiments in biological evolution

Abacws hosts CyberFirst event aimed at encouraging girls into cyber security

24 July 2024

More than 100 students from nine schools across south Wales came to Abacws for the CyberFirst Wales Girls event, hosted by the School of Computer Science and Informatics.

Animating the next generation of engineers

24 July 2024

Local children from Llanmartin Primary School in Newport and Mount Stuart Primary School in Cardiff Bay, have co-created engineering animations with academics from Cardiff University, Swansea University and local animators to create awareness of the research undertaken in the School of Engineering.

‘In Transition’ Speech for WSA Exhibition 2024 by Juliet Davis, Head of School

23 July 2024

Professor Juliet Davis, Head of School, delivered this address on 21 June 2024.

A photograph of marshland at sunset.

Groundwater is key to protecting global ecosystems

22 July 2024

New study maps groundwater dependent ecosystems around world for first time

Early days of the gravitational physics research group

Cardiff University celebrates 50 years of gravity research

19 July 2024

The Gravity Exploration Institute (GEI) began as a gravitational physics research group in 1974