Pioneering award for researcher
St Andrews scientist awarded £2,000 for 'distinguished' research.
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Lecture proves levitation isn’t just science fiction
Levitation explained and demonstrated by Prof Ludwig Schultz
How space eruptions happen
Mathematicians have made a discovery which could lead to a better understanding of why huge eruptions occur in space.
First glimpse of star flip
An international team of astrophysicists has, for the first time, discovered a star other than the Sun flipping its north and south magnetic poles.
Spinning slowly in the web
Astronomers trace magnetic web binding baby stars to their surrounding gas and dust.
The mathematics of the sun
St Andrews' scientists have created a numerical model of the sun.
£2.6m for university mathematicians
Researchers at the University of St Andrews have been awarded £2.6 million to study magnetic activity in the atmosphere of the Sun and the Earth's magnetosphere.
Mathematicians win 3.4m to study sun
Eric Priest (centre) signing the EU contract with co-researchers Alan Hood and Ineke De Moortel.
Complex magnetic footprints on an infant star
Scottish and French astronomers have found a star with a fossilised magnetic field, left over from the time when the star formed.
Our enigmatic sun
The Sun is classified as an ordinary, middle-aged star and yet its magnetic field is responsible for some of the most dramatic and energetic phenomena in the solar system, such as solar flares and other eruptions.