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  1. Milky Way flipped in collision with dwarf galaxy 10bn years ago, astronomers say
    By Ian Sample Science editor

    Durham University researchers find cataclysmic direct hit with Gaia Sausage sent Milky Way into its current position

    theguardian.com/science/2026/j

    #Astronomy #Space #Science #DurhamUniversity #UKnews #EuropeanSpaceAgency #TheGuardian #IanSampleScienceeditor

  2. Vast Hidden Structure Discovered Under Miles of Ice in East Antarctica

    Scientists have uncovered a gigantic hidden structure beneath East Antarctica, linking several enormous basins buried under miles of…
    #NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Science #Antarctica #DurhamUniversity #Geology
    newsbeep.com/us/698601/

  3. New #openaccess publication #SciPost #Physics

    Photoproduction in general-purpose event generators

    Ilkka Helenius, Peter Meinzinger, Simon Plätzer, Peter Richardson
    SciPost Phys. Comm. Rep. 23 (2026)
    scipost.org/SciPostPhysCommRep

    #JyväskyläUniversity #HelsinkiIOP #DurhamUniversity #UZH #ViennaUniversity #UBG

  4. New #openaccess publication #SciPost #Physics Community Reports

    Les Houches 2023 – physics at TeV colliders: Report on the Standard Model precision wishlist

    Alexander Huss, Joey Huston, Stephen Jones, Mathieu Pellen, Raoul Röntsch
    SciPost Phys. Comm. Rep. 21 (2026)
    scipost.org/SciPostPhysCommRep

    #CERN #MSU #DurhamUniversity #FreiburgUniversity #UNIMI #INFNMilano

  5. Yesterday we had a lot of fun at our first #Holi festival, invited by a good friend. I had my face painted and traditional henna on my hand. We all ended up covered in colour after the powder throw - still finding it everywhere! 😁 Beautiful day for it too. Thanks to staff at the Oriental Museum, Durham for a great day of activities. #Holi2026 #HoliFestival #DurhamUniversity

  6. New #openaccess publication #SciPost #Physics Community Reports

    gg → ZH: Updated predictions at NLO QCD

    Benjamin Campillo Aveleira, Long Chen, Joshua Davies, Giuseppe Degrassi, Pier Paolo Giardino, Ramona Gröber, Gudrun Heinrich, Stephen Jones, Matthias Kerner, Johannes Schlenk, Matthias Steinhauser, Marco Vitti
    SciPost Phys. Comm. Rep. 16 (2026)
    scipost.org/SciPostPhysCommRep

    #KIT #SDU #IFT #CSIC #UAM #UNIPD #INFNPadova #DurhamUniversity #UZH
    #DSTShandong #COST #FundaciónCarmenSeveroOchoa #MUR

  7. New #openaccess publication #SciPost #Physics #Codebases

    One-loop calculations in effective field theories with GoSam-3.0

    Jens Braun, Benjamin Campillo, Gudrun Heinrich, Marius Höfer, Stephen P. Jones, Matthias Kerner, Jannis Lang, Vitaly Magerya

    Paper:
    SciPost Phys. Codebases 62 (2026)
    scipost.org/SciPostPhysCodeb.6

    GoSam-v3:
    SciPost Phys. Codebases 62-r3.0 (2026)
    scipost.org/SciPostPhysCodeb.6

    #KIT #DurhamUniversity #CERN
    #BMFTR

  8. New #openaccess publication #SciPost #Physics Community Reports

    Threshold improved ZH production at the LHC

    Goutam Das, Chinmoy Dey, Meduri C. Kumar, Kajal Samanta
    SciPost Phys. Comm. Rep. 14 (2025)
    scipost.org/SciPostPhysCommRep

    #RWTH #PRL #IITG #DurhamUniversity

  9. Scientists issue dire warning about looming threat to coastal communities: ‘Would likely generate’

    A new international report warned that current temperature targets to reduce global overheating may not prevent catastrophic ice…
    #NewsBeep #News #Science #CA #Canada #ChrisStokes #coastalcommunities #communities #DurhamUniversity #globaliceloss #globaltemperatures #iceloss #InternationalCryosphereClimate #risingseas
    newsbeep.com/ca/309347/

  10. Let your fingers do the walking … in the cash register : 1976-1978 : Kay, DSU Bookshop, Dunelm House, Durham University

    FIRST YEAR. I had landed in a ‘one-bookshop town’. The lone academic book retailer in Durham City was bizarrely named ‘SPCK’, aka the ‘Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge’ founded in 1698 by English clergyman Thomas Bray. Naturally, it was packed with books about... [continues]
    #DurhamUniversity #GrantGoddard #journalism #Palatinate #student
    peoplelikeyoudontworkinradio.b

  11. New #openaccess publication #SciPost #Physics #Codebases

    EERAD3 version 2: QCD corrections in hadronic colour-singlet decays

    Benjamin Campillo Aveleira, Aude Gehrmann-De Ridder, Thomas Gehrmann, Nigel Glover, Gudrun Heinrich, Christian T. Preuss

    Paper:
    SciPost Phys. Codebases 59 (2025)
    scipost.org/SciPostPhysCodeb.5

    EERAD3-v2.0:
    SciPost Phys. Codebases 59-r2.0 (2025)
    scipost.org/SciPostPhysCodeb.5

    #KIT #ETHZurich #UZH #DurhamUniversity #GAU #BUW

  12. The Passage of Time

    The start of this term has been so busy that I forgot that October 1st was the 40th anniversary of the day I officially started as a research student at the University of Sussex (1st October 1985). Reflecting on that event I realized with something approaching horror that 1985 is halfway between 1945 and 2025, so I started my PhD DPhil closer in time to the end of World War 2 than to today. Yikes!

    Before travelling to the Sussex to embark on my research degree, I spent a couple of weeks at a summer school for all the new Astronomy PhD students. These are still held annually, although they are now just a week long instead of a fortnight. They are now sponsored by the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) but the one I attended was before that came into being, and even before its predecessor, the Particle Physics and Astronomy Research PPARC. The Science and Engineering Research Council (SERC)  summer school I went to was held at Durham University; we all stayed in St Mary’s College, just over the road from the Physics Department. I remember it well and indeed still have the notes I took during the lectures there.

    Another difference in those days was that we got our stipends paid by cheque – every three months, if I remember correctly – directly from the Research Council. Nowadays STFC gives block grants to universities and other research institutions, who then pay the students.

    Anyway, here is the summer school conference picture:

    Unfortunately (for such a rare and valuable document) it is slightly damaged on the left -hand side. I leave it up to my readers to identify the people in this group who are still in the business 40 years later. I can see quite a few – Moira Jardine, Alan Fitzsimmons, Melvyn Hoare, Jon Loveday and Alastair Edge, among others! A more complete list can be found here.

    I don’t think I’m the only member of this group who is thinking of retiring fairly soon. This post was occasioned by the 40th anniversary of the start of my DPhil; my plan is to retire 40 years after the date of the completion of my thesis. That’s less than three years from now…

    "What we call the beginning is often the end
    And to make an end is to make a beginning.
    The end is where we start from. "

    from Little Gidding V, Four Quartets by T.S. Eliot

    #DurhamUniversity #PhDStudents #PPARC #SERC #STFC #SussexUniversity

  13. These Stars Don’t Burn – They Annihilate Dark Matter

    Mysterious “dark dwarfs” may glow eternally by burning invisible dark matter — and spotting them could finally crack…
    #NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Physics #Astronomy #Astrophysics #Darkmatter #DurhamUniversity #PARTICLEPHYSICS #Science #WIMPs
    newsbeep.com/us/114143/

  14. New #openaccess publication #SciPost #Physics Community Reports

    State-of-the-art cross sections for t tbar H: NNLO predictions matched with NNLL resummation and EW corrections

    Roger Balsach et al.
    SciPost Phys. Comm. Rep. 10 (2025)
    scipost.org/SciPostPhysCommRep

    #WWU #ViennaUniversity #GhentUniversity #CUNY #LundUniversity #UZH #PSI #JagiellonianUniversity #INFNBologna #DurhamUniversity #TUM #RWTH #UNIMI #INFNMilano

  15. New #openaccess publication #SciPost #Physics

    WZW terms without anomalies: Generalised symmetries in chiral Lagrangians

    Joe Davighi, Nakarin Lohitsiri
    SciPost Phys. 17, 168 (2024)
    scipost.org/SciPostPhys.17.6.1

    #CERN #DurhamUniversity

  16. Students at Durham University have been supporting each other to add content to the Wikimedia projects. They're covering topics about North-East England, while also catering to their personal interests. The project has a new lead as it continues to grow 👏

    bit.ly/3OLKLcY

    #DurhamUniversity #student #volunteering #academia #wikipedia

  17. New #openaccess publication #SciPost #Physics Codebases

    Robust independent validation of experiment and theory: Rivet version 4 release note

    Christian Bierlich, Andy Buckley, Jonathan Butterworth, Christian Gutschow, Leif Lonnblad, Tomasz Procter, Peter Richardson, Yoran Yeh
    SciPost Phys. Codebases 36 (2024)
    scipost.org/SciPostPhysCodeb.3

    #LundUniversity #GlasgowUniversity #UCL #DurhamUniversity