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ALT A grassy field with two men working on a robot. The robot has a long orange arm with camera equipment on the end.
ALT Text over a starry background, reading: "We're hiring! Head of Communications (maternity cover)"
ALT Laser target sized trophies created by the CLF's Target Fabrication Team. Pictures is a millimetre high butterfly and tree encased in transparent cubes.
ALT Artwork depicting a stopwatch with nanosecond, microsecond, and millisecond markings, as well as three zeolite catalysts being heated and thermometers at varying temperatures.
ALT From investigating universe-spanning ripples in the fabric of space and time to exploring the quantum world of the unimaginably small… welcome to Big (and Little) Science at STFC.
ALT 12 columns with sparkling lights inside (the supercomputer made of 12 Raspberry Pi computers).
ALT Optical components of the Ultra laser, lit in green.
ALT Sai Likhitha, software developer at EPIC.
ALT PIN8 is a 40 kDa membrane protein that transports the plant hormone Auxin. It forms a homodimer with each monomer containing two domains: transporter (green) and scaffold (blue). In the transporter domain a distinct crossover (red) is localized at the middle of the membrane plane that defines the auxin binding site. Below the structure are show 8 representative 2D classes from the data collected at eBIC that resulted in 3 distinct conformations solved. To the left are shown a schematic of the transport of Auxin (IAA) with two key conformations coloured that summarizes the transport mechanism as described by the data obtained at eBIC.
ALT Artist's impression of ERS-2 in space. Credit: ESA
ALT ERS-2 re-entering the atmosphere. Credit: HEO
ALT computer rendition concept of the completed Vulcan 20-20 building. It is a large 3 story grey and blue clad building with a flat roof and large windows surrounding the main entrance.
ALT Four experimental mung bean sprouts in water.
ALT 4 images arranged in a mosaic. Clockwise from top left: The 25m dish at Chilbolton Observatory, a thin line of laser-cooled atoms in the lab, two members of the RAL Space team wearing astronaut suits at a public engagement event, and the MicroCarb satellite undergoing vibration tests.