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TYC in the media
The research of TYC makes a difference, as you can see from the media interest in our work...
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11/02/2010Mark Miodownik (King's College) chairs a programme 'Out of this World' on BBC Radio 4 at 9.00 p.m. Thursday 11th February 2010. Theme of the programme is the looming crisis caused by the disappearance of crucial chemical elements.
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17/11/2009Marshall Stoneham (TYC@UCL) appeared on BBC's Horizon programme "How long is a piece of string?", talking about the crucial role of quantum mechanics in living organisms (first broadcast 17th November 2009 on BBC Two, repeated 5th January 2010 on BBC One).
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16/10/2009New Scientist, 16th October 20090: A popular review of the ideas of Ab Initio Random Structure Searching developed by Chris Pickard (TYC@UCL) and Richard Needs (Theory of Condensed Matter, Cambridge).
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14/10/2009New Scientist, 14th October 2009: A popular report on the first experimental demonstration of the free flow of north and south magnetic poles in a material. This is the magnetic equivalent of electricity, which is the flow of positive and negative electric charges.
Summaries of notable scientific advances made by TYC groups, based on publications in high-impact journals.