LED lighting.
It is estimated they will reduce total UKRI emissions by 1,100 tonnes of CO2-equivalent a year.
Sites that will benefit from the funding include:
the British Geological Survey (Natural Environment Research Council)
the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory and Daresbury Laboratory (Science and Technology Facilities Council)
London Institute of Medical Sciences (Medical Research Council)
UKRI headquarters, Polaris House in Swindon.
In April 2020, UKRI published its Environmental Sustainability Strategy, setting out its aim to be ‘net zero’ for carbon emissions within 20 years.
Utilising innovative and creative solutions
Professor Sir Duncan Wingham, Executive Chair of the Natural Environment Research Council, and leading on the Strategy for UKRI, said:
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The family of Michael Charles Morris wish it to be known that he has sadly passed away.
Michael pictured here at Niagara Falls
Michael Charles Morris
A dearly beloved husband, father, grandfather and brother, Michael died peacefully on 1 February 2021, aged 86.
Michael grew up here in Neston.
Michael enjoyed a career spanning more than forty years with the Engineering Research Council (SERC). His work included the British National Hydrogen Bubble Chamber at the University of Liverpool, the proton Synchrotron particle accelerator at CERN in Geneva and the Electron Synchrotron at Daresbury, Cheshire.
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UK scientists set to tackle big data challenge of next-generation physics experiments
Lancaster scientists are involved in a UK collaboration to develop vital software to exploit the large data sets collected by the next-generation experiments in high energy physics (HEP), predominantly those at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC).
Over the years, the existing code has struggled to meet rising output levels from large-scale experiments.
The new and optimised software will have the capability to crunch the masses of data that the LHC at CERN and next-generation neutrino experiments such as DUNE and Hyper-Kamiokande will produce this decade.
Professor Roger Jones from Lancaster University said: “The importance of new software developments to deliver the science goals of major projects like the upgraded ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider cannot be understated.
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Scientists set to tackle big data challenge of next-generation physics experiments
Physicists at the University of Warwick are among scientists developing vital software to exploit the large data sets collected by the next-generation experiments in high energy physics (HEP), predominantly those at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC).
Over the years, the existing code has struggled to meet rising output levels from large-scale experiments.
The new and optimised software will have the capability to crunch the masses of data that the LHC at CERN and next-generation neutrino experiments such as DUNE and Hyper-Kamiokande will produce this decade.
This is the first time a team of UK researchers have been funded to develop a software-based project by the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC).
Study Explains New Form of Crystalline Ice
Written by AZoMFeb 19 2021
Ice is an extremely multipurpose material. The oxygen atoms in ice cubes or snowflakes are arranged in a hexagonal pattern. An ice form like this is referred to as ice one (ice I).
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Strictly speaking, however, these are not actually perfect crystals, but disordered systems in which the water molecules are randomly oriented in different spatial directions.
Thomas Loerting, Institute of Physical Chemistry, University of Innsbruck, Austria
A total of 18 crystalline forms of ice, including ice I, were known to date, which vary in terms of the arrangement of their atoms. Polymorphs refer to different types of ice and they form based on specific temperature and pressure conditions.