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15 February 2021

The quantum future of telescopes

Researchers at the University of Sheffield are using cutting-edge quantum physics to find ways of mapping the Universe in more detail than ever before. Professor Pieter Kok spoke to Quantum City to explain how.

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13 January 2021

University of Sheffield to lead multi-million pound project which could open up a new frontier in physics

Quantum Sensing for the Hidden Sector (QSHS), is the best supported and largest UK effort in hidden sector physics to date, and involves scientists from a range of disciplines within physics.

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29 April 2020

New insight into bacterial surface architecture revealed

The study, published in Nature, will help scientists combat antibiotic resistance with findings that overturn previous theories about the structure of outer bacterial layers.

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