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15 Jun 2022

£59.7m Announced for Vulcan 20-20 in UKRI’s Infrastructure Fund

15 Jun 2022

£17.2m Announced for HiLUX in UKRI’s Infrastructure Fund

08 Jun 2022

New CLF Target Fabricator awarded Chartered Physicist Status

14 Apr 2022

Revealing how long-lived oil droplets could affect air pollution

30 Mar 2022

Octopus Paper Published in Nature Communications

23 Mar 2022

Dr Greg Greetham Becomes New Ultra Facility Group Leader

23 Mar 2022

Ultra Paper Makes Front Cover of ACS Inorganic Chemistry

15 Mar 2022

Meet Professor Pavel Matousek

10 Feb 2022

CALTA Scientist Receives Grant from Royal Society’s International Exchanges Scheme

08 Feb 2022

A new world record for DiPOLE100

04 Feb 2022

Octopus brings new light to crystal formation

14 Jan 2022

Annual High Power Laser Meeting 2021

16 Dec 2021

Laser Peening to Strengthen Ceramics used in Hip Replacements

07 Dec 2021

Dr Bucker Dangor Receives the IOP 2021 Michael Faraday Medal and Prize

26 Nov 2021

CLF Newsbite: Scitech and Target Fab Provides Targets for First Academic Access Experiment on LMJ

24 Nov 2021

Gemini Tests the Theory: Turning Light into Matter

21 Nov 2021

New Scitech Precision Micromachining Lab Opens

11 Nov 2021

Investigating sol-gel catalyst chemistry

04 Nov 2021

Gemini Laser Technique Could Potentially Offer Improved Cancer Treatment

08 Oct 2021

Levitating droplets to help understand air pollution.

06 Oct 2021

CLF Octopus: How Do Viruses “Hitch-Hike” on Airborne Droplets?

28 Sep 2021

Ribbon Cutting Ceremony Marks Milestone for Artemis Upgrade

24 Sep 2021

Meet the 2021-22 CLF industrial placement students

24 Sep 2021

Meet Marta Szynkiewicz

06 Sep 2021

Investigating ‘ignition-scale’ laser plasma instabilities, “an important result for laser fusion research”.

26 Aug 2021

Using CRISPR-Cas9 to understand DNA repair pathways, a new technique.

19 Aug 2021

How do plants fight infections?

18 Aug 2021

Fusion Success at NIF

30 Jul 2021

From whole cell to individual molecules: a novel insight to the replication cycle of COVID-19

26 Jul 2021