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Sunday is #WorldQuantumDay !

As a huge upgrade from classical computing, quantum computing has the potential to revolutionise various fields. 🔢

PsiQuantum are developing a quantum computer using qubits, a different approach to usual methods. 💻

Find out more below. 🎥👇

Between the 1960s and the mid-1980s, dozens of women worked #AtCERN as “scanners”. Their job consisted in identifying the trajectories of the particles in the images taken inside the bubble chambers.

“Scanning” took place around the clock. The work was done manually, using a…

Exciting results published recently by the Berkeley Lab led and Science and Technology Facilities Council supported Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument or DESI collaboration. DESI has now brought us even closer to answering some of the biggest questions in physics and there is still much data to come.

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It's #NationalPetDay ! In 2011, the computer security team CERN set up an animal shelter for computer mice.🐁

Originally an April Fools joke sent to staff to remind them not to click on strange links, it ended up providing many mice long-term sanctuary.🖱️
computer-animal-shelter.web.cern.ch/2011.shtml

STFC Particle Physics Department are sad to hear the news of the passing of Prof Peter Higgs, whose work helped transform our field and guide the way we look at the Universe.

This video talks about Higgs' visit to CERN for the announcement of the discovery of the Higgs Boson.

📢 #SustainableMining and the future of #CriticalMinerals recovery workshop💎 Discover the latest research and innovations from The University of Edinburgh #Biomining tech #Wastewater treatment #MetalRecovery

📅 25–26 April
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Hello from Alan Cross, Science and Technology Facilities Council North West Space Cluster Development Manager at the 39th Space Symposium in Colorado.

Alan highlights what he’s been up to this week, curating collaboration across the UK Clusters ecosystem and internationally🤝

#SpaceAtSTFC

Another fantastic day at the Space Symposium in Colorado🚀We had the popular Fish and Chips stand event sponsored by UKspace and the UK Pavilion were delighted to welcome Governor Jared Polis to the stand to discuss the UK’s space offering 🇬🇧
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We were very sad to hear of the passing of Professor Peter Higgs. The Higgs Centre for Innovation on site Edinburgh's Royal Observatory, a partnership with The University of Edinburgh and Science and Technology Facilities Council, was named in his honour.

I met Prof Higgs (couldn't quite bring myself to call him Peter) several times, including looking after him on the day of the announcement of the discovery of the #higgsboson CERN. An unassuming chap who always sent a thank you note.

RIP Peter Higgs

We’re mourning the passing of Nobel prize-winning particle physicist Prof Peter Higgs: a man whose work had a huge impact on STFC's work and our understanding of the universe.
Our colleague at CERN shared her story of being with him when the Higgs boson's detection was confirmed.

This work would not have been possible without invaluable help from the Central Laser Facility and Science and Technology Facilities Council

Welcome back to #LifeatSTFC , where we get to meet the people that work across the UK in our science facilities. 👷‍♀️👷🏽‍♀️👷🏻‍♂️👷🏼‍♂️

This week, we meet Dr Alex Bainbridge, a Magnet Physicist based Daresbury Laboratory. 🥼

Look out for next week's episode! 👀

#DiscoverWhatsPossible

Great news announced at the 39th #SpaceSymposium today! 🚀

11 pioneering space projects have received a funding boost from UK Space Agency. We're contributing to two of these projects alongside Surrey Satellites, Iota Technology and partners.

Read more in UK Space Agency's news story👇

🎉CMS Experiment CERN have completed the most precise measurement ever performed at a hadron collider.

Their measurement of the effective leptonic electroweak mixing angle is in good agreement with the #StandardModel . 🥳

Find out more about the result here 👇
home.cern/news/news/phys…

MOONS Milestone 🎉

100s of fibre positioning units allow MOONS to simultaneously observe 1000 celestial objects! Co-ordinating these FPUs is a complex ballet, now the system has been tested end-to-end in the lab at UK ATC.

Discover more👉 ukatc.stfc.ac.uk/Pages/MOONS-up…

#MOONSToChile

If you've been watching Netflix's 3 Body Problem, you may have spotted a certain doughnut-shaped facility from Rutherford Appleton Laboratory.

But how does it compare with the real thing? 👇
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