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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.

A photographic portrait of Dr Samantha Pugh.

Dr Samantha Pugh has been awarded a National Teaching Fellowship, one of the most prestigious awards for higher education teaching.