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10 May 2018

From Western Cape to Great Western: South African PhD student Cathrine Pfukwa wins award for experiment with ancient antibiotic here at the CLF

16 Apr 2018

ULTRA study could facilitate large-scale screening tests of drugs using 2D-IR spectroscopy

16 Apr 2018

Get to know the CLF Lasers

11 Apr 2018

Accepted into Nature Comms: Shedding Light on Laser Additive Manufacturing

03 Apr 2018

Putting the Tinto STFC: Engineering at the Central Laser Facility

18 Mar 2018

The art of decoding: SORS spin-off acts as a tool for investigation of heterogeneous painted systems

14 Mar 2018

CLF scientists help to solve mystery of why comets emit X-rays

13 Mar 2018

Space Weather in the Lab

27 Feb 2018

Featured in Science Advances: Artemis Laser Reveals the Dynamics of Electrons in a Superconductor

22 Feb 2018

CLF Research Partnership receives £5.7 million grant from EPSRC

21 Feb 2018

Explosive Potential – Gemini laser creates artificial gamma ray burst in the laboratory for the first time

20 Feb 2018

Featured in Nature Comms: Record High Energy Protons from Vulcan

16 Feb 2018

Odd one out: CLF imaging facility identifies abnormality of plant ER protein

09 Feb 2018

A tough nut to crack: Using Raman spectroscopy to test the quality of coconut cream

08 Feb 2018

UK Laser Experiment Mimics Black Hole Environment

25 Jan 2018

CLF visiting scientist awarded the coveted Hannes Alfvén Prize for 2018

16 Dec 2017

Public Engagement in the Physical Sciences: What We Can Learn

17 Nov 2017

Changes in Secondary Structure of Key Calcium Binding Protein Quantified at CLF

16 Nov 2017

Seeing The Bigger Picture: Why Correlative Microscopy is Important and How It Can Be Explained

09 Nov 2017

Artemis and Research Complex User Meeting 2017

07 Nov 2017

Business Development Manager Ric Allott Appointed Professor

02 Nov 2017

Joint project between CLF and India’s Tata Institute of Fundamental Research announced

12 Oct 2017

We Need You!

22 Sep 2017

CLF Scientist and STFC Senior Fellow honoured by the Royal Academy of Engineering

18 Sep 2017

Registration Open for the 2017 Christmas Meeting of the High Power Laser Community

16 Sep 2017

Final Call for Post-Doctoral Fellowships at the CLF

13 Sep 2017

Photons are like Cows: Here’s Why

09 Sep 2017

CLF welcomes installation of state-of-the-art computing cluster

31 Aug 2017

Vulcan experiment provides first demonstration of moderated, epithermal neutrons from a laser accelerator source

18 Aug 2017