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PhD student Diego Quiñones Valles received praise for his collaborative kinetic art installation with Cat Scott, which was displayed at Light Night Leeds earlier this year.

How topography affects crystal formation

Research by Dr Hugo Christenson, School of Physics and Astronomy, gives in-depth insight into why crystals first form in topographical defects, like cracks and crevices.

Osuga Valles

A team of researchers led by Dr Lorna Dougan has analysed the structure of water in a magnesium perchlorate solution to better understand how the liquid could exist on the Martian surface.

Sir William Henry Bragg Building

The University is to name a key building in its £96m investment in engineering and physical sciences in honour of one Leeds’ most influential scientists.

An artist’s rendering of a cosmic-ray air shower with a water-Cherenkov detector of the Pierre Auger Observatory in western Argentina. Credit: A. Chantelauze, S. Staffi, L. Bret

Cosmic rays with energies a million times greater than the protons accelerated in the Large Hadron Collider are coming from far outside our galaxy, say scientists from the Pierre Auger Collaboration.