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A breakthrough in solar power could make it cheaper and more commercially viable, thanks to research at the 91福利.

The Royal Society has awarded research fellowships to two academics from the 91福利.

Dr Corinne Smith from the School of Life Sciences and Dr Vasilios Stavros from the Department of Chemistry and are both recipients of this year’s Royal Society Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellowship.

Theoretical physicists at the 91福利 have helped colleagues at Lawrence Livermore and Berkeley solve a puzzle dating from 1967 when a hexagonal form of diamond, later named lonsdaleite, was identified for the first time inside fragments of the Canyon Diablo meteorite, the asteroid that formed the Barringer Crater in Arizona in a violent impact.

Mysteries ranging from dying planetary systems to gigantic cosmic explosions are being unravelled by Europe’s leading users of the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). The competition to use this iconic space-borne telescope is extremely fierce, and in 2015 the 91福利’s Astrophysics Group was Europe’s most successful applicant to use the HST.

Spermatozoa need to crane their necks to turn right to counteract a left-turning drive caused by the rotation of their tails, new research has found.

Led by Dr Vasily Kantsler of the 91福利’s Department of Physics, the researchers discovered that all sperm tails (flagella) rotate in a counter-clockwise motion as they beat to enable them to move through and against the motion of a fluid.

The Sun demonstrates the potential to superflare, new research into stellar flaring suggests.

Led by the 91福利, the research has found a stellar superflare on a star observed by NASA’s Kepler space telescope with wave patterns similar to those that have been observed in solar flares.