GRADnet Induction Day 2022

02 Nov 2022

Over 100 new PhD students from SEPnet universities attended the GRADnet Induction Day on Wednesday, 26 October 2022 at One Park Crescent in central London.

"One Small Step": The Legacy of Apollo 11

20 Jul 2022

Before the 1960’s, the concept of sending humans to space seemed like wishful thinking. Now, almost 60 years later, NASA is planning to send humans to the Moon again.

Hypermodels help understand gravitational waves

01 Jul 2022

A new approach to analyse binary neutron star mergers, developed by Dr. Gregory Ashton and Prof. Dr. Tim Dietrich was published on Nature Astronomy today.

Meet our students: Emily Howling

23 Jun 2022

Emily Howling, a final-year physics student from RHUL, has recently been accepted to attend a CERN summer school and is soon moving on to a PhD in the physics department at University of Oxford.

Royal Holloway’s cutting-edge research into black holes

05 May 2022

Black holes are some of the most mind-bending objects we have discovered so far. What are they? How do they come to be? How do they work?

Celebrating International Astronomy Day 2022

03 May 2022

Have you ever looked to the stars and wished you knew more about them? Maybe you’ve been looking for a reason to dust off your telescope? Well, now is the perfect time to get involved in stargazing!

Women's History Month: The life and works of Marie Curie

25 Mar 2022

To celebrate Women's History Month, the department is looking back at the life and work of one of the most influential female physicists of all time: Marie Skłodowska-Curie.

Royal Holloway receives £2.3million investment for global particle physics research

10 Mar 2022

The STFC grant will allow the Centre at Royal Holloway to continue its growth and its influence in the field both in the UK and internationally for experimental particle physics

STFC Early Technology Development Capital Funding awarded to researchers

09 Mar 2022

Royal Holloway researcher Alexander Deisting, and researchers from the University of Warwick, Xianguo Lu and Garry Backer have been successful with a proposal for STFC Early Technology Development Cap

Royal Holloway Turing Network Development Award

23 Feb 2022

The development award from the Alan Turing Institute has been given to Royal Holloway researchers Greg Ashton (Department of Physics) and Nicolo Colombo (Department of Computer Science).

Record low temperature achieved in a sheet of electrons

04 Feb 2022

Researchers at Royal Holloway have smashed the low temperature record for two dimensional electrons, cooling them below one thousandth of a degree above absolute zero.

Confining Sound Waves in Superfluid Helium

13 May 2021

Researchers at Royal Holloway have proposed a new system for using superfluid helium 4 in a cavity optomechanical system.