News News stories Find out about the latest Physics and Astronomy news from the University of Sheffield. 15 November 2023 Sheffield astronomers help discover signs of life in a star’s explosive death Astrophysicists have settled the debate over the nature of a rare type of stellar explosion, thanks to a camera designed and built at the University of Sheffield. The Gamma-Ray Burst (GRB) 230307A and its associated kilonova explosion. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, A. Levan (Radboud University and University of Warwick) 27 October 2023 Sheffield astronomers help to confirm heaviest elements in the Universe are formed in kilonovae Astrophysicists are one step closer to understanding how the heaviest chemical elements are created in the universe, thanks to a camera designed and built at the University of Sheffield. Search The tortoise and hare: how moving slower allows groups of bacteria to spread across surfaces Scientists have found that bacterial groups spread more rapidly over surfaces when the individuals inside them move slowly, a discovery that may shed light on how bacteria spread within the body during infections. 23 November 2020 New class of semiconductor nanocrystals engineered to build a prototype quantum computing circuit This work uses quantum dots, which are small (few thousand atoms) semiconductor crystals, that can hold individual electrons. 9 November 2020 Scientists and students publish blueprints for a cheaper single-molecule microscope A team of scientists and students from the University of Sheffield has designed and built a specialist microscope, and shared the build instructions to help make this equipment available to many labs across the world. 6 November 2020 Planet discovered transiting a dead star Dr Steven Parsons examines the evidence of a planet circling the smouldering remains of a dead star in a tight orbit. The discovery raises the question of how the planet survived the star’s death throes – and whether there are others. 16 September 2020 | Published by Nature News and Views Graduating students go online to celebrate end of their degrees The Department of Physics and Astronomy hosted an online prize giving ceremony for final year undergraduates. 14 August 2020 Pagination First page « First Previous page ‹ Previous … Page 8 Page 9 Page 10 Page 11 Current page 12 Page 13 Page 14 Page 15 Page 16 … Next page Next › Last page Last »