2022-05-17

Department of Physics

World's largest particle accelerator restarts

The CERN research facility houses the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world's largest particle accelerator. The accelerator has been undergoing further development for three years, and operations were restarted in April. Sara Strandberg is a professor at Fysikum and works at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research in Switzerland. Here she tells us more about how she became interested in physics and her research at the ATLAS experiment.

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2022-05-12

Department of Physics

Frank Wilczek receives the 2022 Templeton Prize

Frank Wilczek, a Nobel Prize-winning theoretical physicist and author, and professor at four universities among them Stockholm University, is awarded the 2022 Templeton Prize. We are delighted that Frank, with his extraordinary depth and breadth of knowledge, is contributing to the Physics research community, says Jan Conrad, Head of the Department of Physics at the Stockholm University.

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2022-05-05

Department of Physics

Scientists solve the Mystery about the Active Phase in Catalytic Carbon Dioxide Reduction

An international research team led by researchers of Stockholm University has for the first time been able to study the surface of a copper-zinc catalyst when carbon dioxide is reduced to methanol. The results – obtained at DESY´s brilliant light source PETRA III – are published in the scientific journal Science. A better knowledge of the catalytic process of methanol synthesis and the possibility of finding even more efficient materials opens the door for a green transition in the chemical industry.

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2022-04-28

Department of Physics

Water - the strangest liquid

This science documentary reveals groundbreaking insights into the puzzling substance that constitutes most of ourselves: water. Yet no one has been able to explain the origin of water´s unique anomalies on a molecular level. In this film we get to follow the scientific pursuit from the theoretical hypothesis of two liquids presented by Prof. Francesco Sciortino, to the experimental work led by the Swedish at Stockholm University Anders Nilsson and his team, when they test water under extreme conditions while conducting an experiment nobody considered possible.

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