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screenshot from the current homepage of CERN

Happy birthday HIE-ISOLDE!

CERN celebrates 10 years of accelerated radioactive beams from the HIE-ISOLDE facility

The current homepage splash features the rather photogenic silicon detector of the ISOLDE Solenoidal Spectrometer, built at @livuniphysics.bsky.social

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And look what the largest part of the total is, and the one that has grown the most…….

She can take equity out of the house to pay the bill very simply. If she owns a £2m pound house, the bank will happily give her £20k to cover it for the next few years.

Was there a follow up on this? Would love to know more about the book

Asylum seekers, housed in hotels in Manchester, are reaching out in their own words to address the concerns of the local community.

Please take a minute to read their letter, & share it with the people in your life who need to hear the truth about the people they are protesting.

That’s an insult to San Marino and Cyprus!

Why must it be big news that they’ve used all the power and might of the LHC to measure the nuclear shape of stable neon isotopes? Something that was done in small university labs in the 1970s, and can be done routinely with low-energy beams and gamma-ray spectrometers?

4^2 / 3^2 / 45^2

Making molecules with superheavy elements could shake up the periodic table – Physics World New atom-by-atom technique demonstrated for the first time with nobelium might ensure that elements at the bottom of the table are grouped correctly

The first nobelium-containing molecules ever made + directly identified could herald a shake-up at the bottom of the periodic table as scientists reassess the physical phenomena that give heavy and superheavy elements their chemical properties. 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/making-mol...

Al Jazeera Media Network condemns the ‘assassination’ of its Gaza correspondents and photographers by Israeli forces.

🔗: aje.io/eeht0q | #JournalismIsNotACrime

BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.

Avignon in the south of France is lovely. Good balance of history, tourism, weather and accessibility by train (Eurostar+TGV).

It’s May and my brain hasn’t updated the year yet

It’s also from the future

ISOLDE already exists 😉

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Bubble Chamber Breakthrough As I am sure everyone is well aware by now, UCL won a share of an enormous prize yesterday1. After half a century of valiant defeat and occasional failure to turn up, football really is coming home…

Bubble Chamber Breakthrough lifeandphysics.com/2025/04/07/b... #LifeAndPhysics

You’re welcome 🥳

In order, R-L?

Always liked Phil Gil. Watched him from the Oude Kwaremont that day in the Belgian champs jersey as he soloed to number 3 of 5. Had a bet on him every year after that for MSR, hoping he’d complete the set!

The total cut off of deliveries to Ukraine is shockingly punitive. This is money already spent, equipment already built by industry for Ukraine, much of it has little utility to the US military. And it is just going to be sitting there in warehouses idle, as Ukrainian forces fight on.

YouTube video by Kyiv Independent Zelensky thanks America for four minutes straight

Trump and Vance have repeatedly claimed that Zelensky has not been sufficiently grateful for U.S. support throughout the war.

We compiled instances where Zelensky has publicly expressed gratitude to the U.S., its people, and its leadership for being Ukraine’s largest supporter.

Huge congratulations to Professor Brianna Heazlewood on this incredible achievement—our first ever Blavatnik Awards finalist! 🎉👏

Hello, I’m going to start posting here rather than on the other website from now on. Hopefully I’ll share some physics things a little more often!

Right Said Fred. No pun here, they’re just massive conspiracy theorists.

Boulby also used for science experiments, taking advantage of the low radiation background at that depth.

This is excellent content