News and events

Latest updates from the Central Laser Facility​​​​.

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29 Oct 2020

CLF Director, Professor John Collier, awarded prestigious medal

23 Oct 2020

CLF News Bite: Developing New Light Activated Catalysts

22 Oct 2020

Cooking oil emissions polluting urban environments

14 Oct 2020

2020 William F. Meggers Award goes to CLF-led Spectroscopy Innovation Paper

14 Oct 2020

New Family of Spectroscopic Techniques Invented at the CLF

09 Oct 2020

After screening 100,000 compounds, scientists discover a new cancer treatment opportunity

30 Sep 2020

Review of laser-generated electromagnetic pulses published in HPLSE

29 Sep 2020

AstraZeneca collaboration

29 Sep 2020

Gemini Laser used for industrial X-ray tomography: Paving the Way for EPAC applications

28 Sep 2020

Studying processes that Could Enhance Certain Types of Solar Cells

28 Sep 2020

Scientists plan new facility to transform UK cancer treatment

21 Sep 2020

Vulcan Produces a Terawatt of Terahertz

19 Sep 2020

CLF News Bite: Octopus Paper Selected as a PrePrint Highlight by the PreLights: Nuclear myosin VI regulates the spatial organization of mammalian transcription initiation

14 Sep 2020

New Compound that could kill Antibiotic Resistant Superbugs Discovered

14 Sep 2020

Scientists Discover a Case of Mistaken Identity in Industrial Catalysts

07 Sep 2020

CLF News Bite: Observing Interactions between 4 Stranded DNA and the “Light-Switch” Complex

27 Aug 2020

Rest in Peace Prof. David Neely

20 Aug 2020

A Great Week for DiPOLE

06 Aug 2020

CLF News Bite: Watching charge flow in organic semiconductors

07 Jul 2020

STFC team helps national consortium deliver 13,437 ventilators

30 Jun 2020

CLF COVID-19 Update

16 Jun 2020

The CLF has its First Non-COVID 19 Related User Experiment since March

10 Jun 2020

OCTOPUS 10th Anniversary

29 May 2020

Coconut Collaborative collaboration

28 May 2020

Kerr gated Raman spectroscopy Used to Characterise Lithium Ion Batteries

19 May 2020

Artemis facility Images Neurons in Incredible Detail Revealing a Potential Application in Studying Alzheimer’s Disease

17 May 2020

New Probing Beamline to be added to Vulcan Target Area Petawatt

13 May 2020

Replicating space’s strange magnetic phenomena in the lab

23 Apr 2020

Pig Tissue Used to Create Standard Model to Mimic Disease

14 Apr 2020

Direct evidence of mitochondria physical association with the endoplasmic reticulum in tobacco leaf epidermal cells