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KICC researcher Dr Miles Cranmer is one of 28 researchers worldwide to receive an AI2050 fellowship from Schmidt Sciences, awarded to researchers studying how to fulfil AI’s potential to benefit humankind. The fellows will pursue efforts to solve challenging problems in AI by building AI scientists, designing safer and...

The GUEST mission concept (Gravitational Universe Exploration with Satellite Tracking), co-proposed by Alex Jenkins, Gavin Boyle Fellow in Cosmology at KICC and EPSRC Stephen Hawking Fellow, has been selected to advance to the next phase of the European Space Agency’s 2025 call for “fast” (F-class) missions. The project...

Astronomers want to unlock the secrets of the 'Cosmic Dawn' by sending a miniature spacecraft to listen out for an "ancient whisper" on the far side of the Moon. The proposed mission will study the very early universe, right after the Big Bang, when it was still quite dark and empty before the first stars and galaxies...

Understanding how the universe transitioned from darkness to light with the formation of the first stars and galaxies is a key turning point in the universe’s development, known as the Cosmic Dawn. However, even with the most powerful telescopes, we can’t directly observe these earliest stars, so determining their...