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Cardiff scientists part of team bidding for $1bn NASA mission

22 October 2024

Cardiff Astronomy Instrumentation Group will provide filters and other optics for NASA space observatory scheduled to launch in 2032

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Physicist honoured for outstanding work on revolutionary astronomical instruments and facilities

15 October 2024

Professor Carole Tucker selected as 2024 recipient of IOP’s James Joule Medal and Prize

A scientist installing the 40kg mirrors into the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO).

Using gravitational wave detectors to help solve the biggest mystery in physics and astronomy

13 September 2024

LIGO detector data helps scientists put new limits on strength of ultra-low-mass dark matter

Compound semiconductor consortium announced as a finalist for prestigious award

13 September 2024

CSconnected named as a finalist for the Bhattacharyya Award

A futuristic glowing quantum computer unit. It resembles a network of interconnected wires extending downwards from a cylindrical component.

Cardiff University researchers part of £106 million investment in new Quantum hubs

14 August 2024

Cardiff University experts are supporting two new research hubs which aim to harness quantum technology to improve healthcare and computing.

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

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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

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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

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