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The News pages are where we give information about visitors to TYC, new partnerships with other organisations, awards to TYC members, etc. For news of scientific advances, or media reports about TYC work, you may want to take a look at the "Science Highlights" and "Media" pages.
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20/08/2010
Astronomers have perfected methods of finding planets round other stars
and there are lots. How do we detect water, the key to life, on these
objects?Commisioned for the Royal Society Summber Exhibition 2010. Based on the research of Giovanna Tinetti, Marcell Tessenyi and Jonathan Tennyson. Video by Alex Tennyson.
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23/07/2010
A molecule's eye view of water
A team from UCL Chemistry, Physics and Astronomy departments, the London Centre for Nanotechnology and the Thomas Young Centre took part in the 2010 Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition on the South Bank this month with enormous success.
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05/07/2010Dr. Peter Haynes (TYC@Imperial) has been awarded the Institute of Physics Maxwell Prize 2010 for his work on linear-scaling DFT. The award recognizes his leading role in developing the ONETEP code.
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02/06/2010
A TYC team led by Professor Angelos Michaelides and Dr Ben Slater has developed an iPhone application; a game called 'Waterfall'. It's available for free from iTunes or via: www.koolistov.net.
The game is described as follows: "The ice caps are melting, you have to rebuild them one water molecule at a time! Waterfall is a simple, fun, and highly addictive game that teaches you about ice and nanoscience."
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