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Fancy tasting ice cream made with liquid nitrogen, building a wind turbine or dancing like a sound wave? Youngsters with a passion for science will be able to enjoy some real-life experiments at the ¹û¶³´«Ã½â€™s Science Gala next week.

A ‘great’ space weather super-storm large enough to cause significant disruption to our electronic and networked systems occurred on average once in every 25 years according to a new joint study by the ¹û¶³´«Ã½ and the British Antarctic Survey.

Use of an AC rather than a DC electric field can improve the piezoelectric response of a crystal. Now, an international team of researchers say that cycles of AC fields also make the internal crystal domains in some materials bigger and the crystal transparent. The research was undertaken using world-class equipment housed within the X-ray Diffraction Research Technology Platform based in the ¹û¶³´«Ã½â€™s Department of Physics.

When it comes to the biggest and brightest explosions seen in the Universe, ¹û¶³´«Ã½ astronomers have found that it takes two stars to make a gamma-ray burst.

Two projects led by ¹û¶³´«Ã½ researchers are to benefit from a share of €600 million funding from the European Union.

Lasers, chemical reactions and the biggest explosion allowed in ¹û¶³´«Ã½ Arts Centre are among the spectacles promised at this year’s Christmas Lectures at the ¹û¶³´«Ã½.