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Sussex's Professor Antonella De Santo at the ATLAS experiment

Sussex researchers to join prestigious Institute to help shed light on Dark Matter

16 April 2025

Sussex’s Department of Physics has joined a prestigious international project exploring one of science’s most puzzling mysteries – dark matter

University of Sussex scientists among winners of prestigious Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics

8 April 2025

Scientists from Sussex are among the thousands of researchers worldwide honoured with the 2025 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics

Prof Hensinger attends Royal Society Conference on Quantum Information

Professor Winfried Hensinger joins panel at prestigious Royal Society conference on the future of quantum

11 March 2025

Professor of Quantum Technologies Winfried Hensinger, Director of Sussex Centre for Quantum Technologies, recently joined a panel at the Royal...

Sussex joins the world-leading hunt for dark matter using liquid xenon

25 October 2024

Sussex researchers, led by Prof Antonella De Santo, have received funding to join a consortium of UK researchers that have begun designing a new...

Dr Jacob Kempster to co-lead major Large Hadron Collider working group

4 September 2024

From October, Research Fellow Dr Jacob Kempster will be co-leading the LHC Effective Field Theory Working Group (LHC EFT WG), a major working group...

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Dr Josh McFayden to lead major ATLAS working group

29 May 2024

Experimental particle physicist Dr Josh McFayden has been appointed to lead a major working group within ATLAS, one of the experiments at the...

Image of an 171Yb+ atomic clock which was used in the project

Testing the laws of physics at a new level of precision

30 August 2023

Scientists at Sussex and the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) have teamed up to search for experimental evidence of a breakdown in the laws of...

Graphic of a honeycomb like structure, which depicts the structure of the film with graphene oxide trapped between polymer latex spheres

Lucky find! How science behind epidemics helped Sussex physicists to develop state-of-the-art conductive paint

20 December 2022

Sussex physicists find first evidence that 'explosive percolation' – seen in the transmission of viruses – can occur in nanomaterial networks

“I want to debunk the mystery of quantum physics”

10 May 2022

Meet quantum physicist PhD student Poppy Joshi, one of the speakers at Brighton's Soapbox Science.

Current flow in an electric vehicle battery

Quantum physicists develop sensors to assess the safety of electric vehicle batteries

25 April 2022

Quantum physicists at the University of Sussex have used magnetic imaging for assessing electric vehicle batteries.

Graphene-wrapped emulsion droplets deposited onto electrodes for single-droplet thin-film electronic devices

The University of Sussex scientists advancing liquid electronics

15 February 2022

University of Sussex physicists have coated droplets in atomically-thin graphene that can be used to wrap any liquid, in liquid tech advance.

Artist's impression of a trapped ion quantum computer

Sussex scientists reveal how quantum computing can break Bitcoin and help tackle world hunger

25 January 2022

Sussex spin-out, Universal Quantum identifies how big a quantum computer needs to be to solve some of the world's most pressing challenges

Close-up of the magnetic sensor array in the Battery Current Density Analyser

Battery camera developed using quantum technology launches in key milestone for transport electrification

22 September 2021

Electric Vehicle battery scanner developed by quantum physicists at the University of Sussex in collaboration with local green energy start-up, CDO2

Sussex scientists develop ultra-thin terahertz source, paving the way to next generation of communication tech

30 March 2021

Sussex physicists have developed an ultra-thin, large-area semiconductor surface source of terahertz compatible with existing electronic platforms.