CLF in the News

This is a selection of articles that have appeared in external publications and websites, that raise awareness of of the CLF and/or research that we are involved in.

If you have a link to other projects or activities that you think should be featured, then please contact us.

2011

• World's most powerful laser to tear apart the vacuum of space (link opens in a new window)
  The Telegraph.co.uk - 31 October 2011
  
  
• Cancer uses for Scots universities gamma ray project (link opens in a new window)
  BBC News - 19 September 2011
  
  
• Super gamma ray beam offers hope of new cancer treatment (link opens in a new window)
  Express.co.uk - 19 September 2011
  
  
• Gamma ray brighter than the sun brings new cancer hope (link opens in a new window)
  Irish Independent - 19 September 2011
  
  
• UK joins laser nuclear fusion project (link opens in a new window)
  BBC News - 9 September 2011
  
  
• UK scientists call for laser fusion energy plan (link opens in a new window)
  optics.org - 9 September 2011
  
  
• Fired up for science (link opens in a new window)
  The Oxford Times - 4 August 2011
  
  
• High-quality optic increases laser intensity at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (link opens in a new window)
  Electro optics.com - 22 June 2011
  
  
• Counterfeit Crackdown (link opens in a new window)
  ScienceNews - 18 June 2011
  
  
• Microscope system could lead to better cancer treatment (link opens in a new window)
  The Engineer - 1 June 2011
  
  
• ‘Octopus’ laser improves understanding of processes behind cancer (link opens in a new window)
  BBSRC press release - 12 May 2011
  
  
• Lasers Identify Key Molecular Structure in Tumours (link opens in a new window)
  The Naked Scientists: Science Radio & Science Podcasts - May 2011
  
  
• Sugar boost for Oxfordshire scientists who are planning ahead for future medicines (link opens in a new window)
  ScienceBlog - 4 Feb 2011
  
  
• Solving the solvent mystery for better drug design (link opens in a new window)
  Physorg.com - Feb 3 2011
  
  
• Low-energy microscope aids pharmaceutical developments (link opens in a new window)
  The Engineer - 13 January 2011
  
  
• Nonlinear processes: Raman amplification sets sights on laser fusion (link opens in a new window) (link opens in a new window)
  Laser Focus World - 10 January 2011
  
  
• New microscopic techniques help to develop improved chicken vaccines (link opens in a new window)
  BBSRC Press Release - January 2011

2010

• Raman amplification could boost plasma-based acceleration (link opens in a new window)
  CERN Courier - 30 November 2010
  
  
• IOP Plasma News (PDF - 649kB - link opens in a new window)
  Volume 1, Issue 1 - June 2010
  
  
• Material World - Fifty years of the laser (22 minutes into the programme) (link opens in a new window)
  BBC Radio 4 - 13 May 2010
  
  
• Lasers scan future possibilities (link opens in a new window)
  BBC News - 13 May 2010
  
  
• The laser at 50: Fusion's bright new dawn (PDF - 713kB - link opens in a new window)
  Physics World - May 2010
  
  
• Wakefield accelerators: Plasma models get a boost (link opens in a new window)
  Nature Physics/News and Views - 6 April 2010
  
  
• Specialized 'shutters' capture superquick phenomena (link opens in a new window)
  Photonics.com - March 2010
  
  
• Thesis on ultraviolet skin exposure takes award (link opens in a new window)
  Irish Times - 18 March 2010
  
  
• Controlling implosion symmetry around a Deuterium-Tritium target (PDF - 410kB - link opens in a new window)
  Science - 5 March 2010
  
  
• Laser fusion test raise energy hopes (link opens in a new window)
  BBC News - 28 January 2010

2009

• Laser fusion gets HiPERactive (link opens in a new window)
  Physics World - 3 December 2009
  
  
• A rare insight into his working life: The Duke of York (PDF - 7935kB - link opens in a new window)
  Hello Magazine - 21 April 2009
  
  
• Scientists welcome royal visitor (link opens in a new window)
  BBC News - 16 April 2009
  
  
• Preparing scientists for a fusion-powered future (link opens in a new window)
  University of York - 14 April 2009
  
  
• World's biggest laser powers up (link opens in a new window)
  Physics World - 31 March 2009
  
  
• Giant laser experiment powers up (link opens in a new window)
  BBC News - 31 March 2009
  
  
• Imaging intracellular viscosity of a single cell during photoinduced cell death (link opens in a new window)
  Nature Chemistry - 16 March 2009
  
  
• Inner workings of plants uncovered for first time (link opens in a new window)
  Red Orbit - 9 February 2009
  
  
• Photosynthesis viewed in a flash (link opens in a new window)
  BBC News - 7 February 2009
  
  
• Guiding of relativistic electron beams in solid targets by resistively controlled magnetic fields (link opens in a new window)
  Physical Review Letters - 6 February 2009