A paper by Joe Smerdon (UCLan) and coworkers has been selected to feature as the cover of a special molecular electronics issue of Journal of Chemical Physics. Building on previous success, we decided to construct another rectifier using the same methodology. This could only be successful if our understanding of Read More …
Month: March 2017
Astronomy academics spot fire while observing Jupiter
Dr Daniel Holdsworth and Dr Mark Norris alerted emergency services to fire at Alston Hall A peaceful night of stargazing took an alarming turn for two University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) academics last night after they discovered a huge fire in a nearby property. Astronomy lecturer Dr Mark Norris and Read More …
UCLan Astrophysicist Finds That Galaxies Die of Gluttony
It was nearly a century ago, in the 1920s, that Edwin Hubble, using the then revolutionary 100-in telescope on Mount Wilson in California, discovered that most of the numerous mysterious dim fuzzy nebulae dotted around the sky were in fact what we now call galaxies: very distant, vast conglomerations of Read More …