Researchers break spinning world record
St Andrews achievement appears in Guinness Book of Records
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Top UK science awards for St Andrews students
Two students awarded prestigious prizes for their studies.
Tweezing on Frontiers
St Andrews physicists feature on Radio 4's Frontiers
Breakthrough in ‘self-healing’ light beams
CAPTION: Cross section along a reconstructing Bessel beam. The beam propagates from left to right. The beam is blocked at the marked position and is seen to reform a short distance later.
St Andrews science in national spotlight
Imagine a beam of light that can trap and manipulate microscopic objects like the tractor beam in Star Trek. Science fiction? No, science fact, thanks to the 'optical tweezers' used at the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of St Andrews.
Optical tweezing creates 3-D structures
PICTURE CREDIT: The University of St Andrews