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We welcomed The One Show to our Acre Road Observatory last night to watch the solar eclipse with us. Dr Iain Hannah from @uofgphysastro.bsky.social spoke to presenter Jennifer Reoch about the science behind the historic event. Watch the programme for yourself on iPlayer here: lnkd.in/e9HYYGZB
@glasgow.ac.uk and @unistrathclyde.bsky.social are partners in a new Leverhulme Doctoral Programme in Responsible Hybrid Intelligence announced today. Full story via the link: www.gla.ac.uk/news/headlin...
A breakthrough new development in communications research led by a team from @uofgengineering.bsky.social may have solved a key problem with one of the enabling technologies set to underpin the 6G networks of the future. Read more here: www.gla.ac.uk/news/headlin...
Congrats to the @uofgchem.bsky.social Lunasonic project team, who have won £100,000 from Ofwat’s Water Discovery Challenge University to advance their research into how sound waves can remove harmful pollutants from drinking water. Read more here: www.gla.ac.uk/news/headlin...
Superconducting technologies could supercharge the decarbonisation of transport, saving gigatonnes of emissions in the future, a landmark new paper from Dr Wenjuan Song and Dr Mohammad Yazdani-Asrami of @uofgengineering.bsky.social suggests. Read more here: www.gla.ac.uk/news/headlin...
A study by an international team of Chinese and UK geoscientists shows that the unique topography at the summit of the Tibetan Plateau is shaped by processes going on deep in the Earth. www.gla.ac.uk/news/headlin... #Geoscience #research @glasgow.ac.uk
A pioneering food additive developed by scientists at @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social and @glasgow.ac.uk that can stop people gaining weight has appeared on the EU’s Novel Food List, indicating its safety for human consumers. 👉 www.gla.ac.uk/news/headlin...
A breakthrough new development in biomedical engineering could help pave the way for tiny implantable devices capable of diagnosing, monitoring and treating a wide range of health conditions. 👉 www.gla.ac.uk/news/headlin...
A team of Glasgow students has successfully completed a major systems-level qualification milestone for the OirthirSAT CubeSat, following a series of sinusoidal and random vibration tests conducted at the STFC Higgs Centre for Innovation in Edinburgh. Read more here: www.gla.ac.uk/news/headlin...
Lower-income postgraduate students will receive scholarships to study at @uofgmaths-stats.bsky.social thanks to a new partnership agreement with Martingale Foundation. Read more here: www.gla.ac.uk/news/headlin...
Quantcore, a pioneering @glasgow.ac.uk spinout from @uofgengineering.bsky.social which is developing advanced quantum hardware for use across a wide range of industries has been awarded a major prize by @iop.org. Read more here: www.gla.ac.uk/news/headlin...
The meteorite which caused the extinction of the dinosaurs also created an underground environment suited to supporting new life which lasted for at least eight million years, research from SUERC and @uofgges.bsky.social reveals. Read more here: www.gla.ac.uk/news/headlin...
Researchers from SUERC Centre for the Isotope Sciences are co-authors of a study which casts new light on the history of the Earth’s driest region, the Atacama Desert in Chile. Read more here: www.gla.ac.uk/news/headlin...
A new method to distribute cryptographic keys using terahertz waves developed at @uofgengineering.bsky.social could help enable secure communication in the quantum-powered internet of the future. Read more here: www.gla.ac.uk/news/headlin...
Researchers from the @uofgphysastro.bsky.social and @uofgravity.bsky.social are celebrating the publication of a vast new treasure trove of gravitational wave detections, hailed as a milestone marking the coming of age of gravitational astronomy. Read more here: www.gla.ac.uk/news/headlin...
Prof Martin Lavery of @uofgengineering.bsky.social is leading the University's contribution to the University of Suffolk-led Quantum Optics Discovery (QOD) Lab, which was officially opened last week. Read more here: www.uos.ac.uk/about/news/2...
A new implantable device developed by researchers at @uofgengineering.bsky.social which aims to maximise the effectiveness of light-sensitive drugs could improve outcomes for bladder cancer patients in the future. Read more here: www.gla.ac.uk/news/headlin...
Two vast paintings by artist Gregor Harvie, inspired by one of the most ambitious scientific theories proposed by physicist Lord Kelvin, will be unveiled at the @uofgphysastro.bsky.social Kelvin Building this June. Read more here: www.gla.ac.uk/news/headlin...
Prof Jonathan Taylor of @uofgphysastro.bsky.social is leading a £4m new project with colleagues from @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social and @sheffielduni.bsky.social to create detailed 3D images of the mechanical forces inside a living, beating heart. Read more here: www.gla.ac.uk/news/headlin...
Congrats to Dr Mingshu Wang of @uofgges.bsky.social, as been named as the recipient of a fellowship from DAFNI, the Data & Analytics Facility for National Infrastructure. The fellowship will help support Dr Wang's work in geospatial data science. Read more here: www.gla.ac.uk/news/headlin...
Gravitational wave researchers at @uofgphysastro.bsky.social and @uofgravity.bsky.social, working as part of the LVK collaboration, have found a way to tune their detectors using a process akin to the pitch-correction used in music production. Read more here: www.gla.ac.uk/news/headlin...
Congrats to Prof Larissa Naylor of @uofgges.bsky.social, who has received the Royal Geographical Society's Cuthbert Peek Award in recognition of her research on coastal geography, geomorphology and the ecological and climate challenges facing society. Read more here: www.gla.ac.uk/news/headlin...
Sophisticated new flight simulation software developed at @uofgengineering.bsky.social which can accurately model the performance of firefighting helicopters could help train pilots to tackle wildfires more effectively in the future. Read more here: www.gla.ac.uk/news/headlin...
Congratulations to Simon Fraser, an MEng Aeronautical Engineering student in @uofgengineering.bsky.social, who has won the PEGASUS student competition for his project 'An Experimental Framework to Investigate Icy Plumes on Saturn’s Moon Enceladus.' Read more here: www.gla.ac.uk/news/headlin...
Congrats to @uofgcompsci.bsky.social PhD student Andrew Blair, who has been selected by the @britsciassoc.bsky.social to deliver a lecture on his research at the British Science Festival in September! Read more here: www.britishscienceassociation.org/news/announc...
Researchers from @uofgengineering.bsky.social welcomed Martin Rhodes MP to the REACT Centre last week to view new sustainable electronics research and demonstrations of circular manufacturing and advanced e-waste recovery. Read more here: www.gla.ac.uk/news/headlin...
Researchers from @uofgcompsci.bsky.social are presenting their work and playing key roles at the ACM #CHI2026 conference this week. Read more here: www.gla.ac.uk/news/headlin...
New research from @uofgcompsci.bsky.social and Blair Drummond Safari Park suggests that giving lemurs the chance to share control of technology with zoo visitors can help create meaningful connections between humans and animals. Read more here: www.gla.ac.uk/news/headlin...
Congrats to @uofgphysastro.bsky.social's Dr Graeme McGhee, who has received the 2026 MERAC Prize for the Best Doctoral Thesis in New Technologies (Multi‑messenger) for his work on gravitational wave and materials science research. Read more here: www.gla.ac.uk/news/headlin...
New research from @uofgcompsci.bsky.social is highlighting how involving non-experts in the development and evaluation of artificial intelligence applications could help create better, fairer and more trustworthy automated decision-making systems. Read more here: www.gla.ac.uk/news/headlin...