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Developing Talent Award Winners 2025-2026 Permalink

Published: January 29, 2026

"We are pleased to announce the winners of the Developing Talent Award for 2026: James Gill-Fleming (CfAI) , Aurelie Magniez (CfAI), Omer Rathore (CMP) and Max von Wietersheim-Kramsta (ICC & CEA)" for "Cosmos to Care: A Durham Sprint for Cross-Disciplinary Innovation in the Development of Cancer Treatments" (an interdisciplinary collaboration between cosmologists in Durham and Newcastle, oncologists from the Institute for Cancer Research in London, and the industrial partners from concr applies advanced statistical and machine-learning methods,  typically applied in cosmology, that can be used to make better predictions from existing cancer data).

URL: https://www.durham.ac.uk/departments/academic/physics/news/developing-talent-award-winners-2025-2026/

Mapping the Dark Universe at Unprecedented Resolution with JWST Permalink

Published: January 26, 2026

"An ultra-high-resolution map of (dark) matter" covered by various outlets: NASA Science, New Scientist, BBC Sky at Night Magazine, The Independent, National Geographic, Scientific American, etc.

URL: https://communities.springernature.com/posts/mapping-the-dark-universe-at-unprecedented-resolution-with-jwst?channel_id=behind-the-paper

Webb brings cosmic lenses into focus Permalink

Published: September 30, 2025

"This ESA/Webb Picture of the Month shows eight stunning examples of gravitational lensing. Gravitational lensing, which was first predicted by Einstein, occurs because massive objects like galaxies and clusters of galaxies dramatically warp the fabric of spacetime."

URL: https://esawebb.org/images/potm2509a/

Final findings from Kilo-Degree survey confirm cosmology model Permalink

Published: March 26, 2025

"The Kilo-Degree Survey has said its last word on one of the most polarising tensions in cosmology! The final KiDS results reconcile early- and late-Universe measurements of the distribution of dark matter in the Universe. As we enter the golden era of gravitational lensing with surveys such as Euclid, this analysis drives the state-of-the-art of weak lensing cosmology and teaches us important lessons for the future." - MvWK

URL: https://www.durham.ac.uk/news-events/latest-news/2025/03/final-findings-from-kilo-degree-survey-confirm-cosmology-model/

Durham astrophysicists’ key contributions to cosmic discoveries Permalink

Published: March 19, 2025

"These observations are tremendously exciting: they demonstrate the capabilities of this precision instrument, while already pushing the cutting-edge in astrophysics. Among the results, it is astonishing that Euclid has already discovered 500 gravitational lens candidates substantially adding to the total of approximately 1,000 previously known lensed galaxies, which took over 40 years to discover! At this rate, Euclid is expected to observe 200,000 such objects over six years of the survey. These observations, together with the two billion galaxies Euclid will image, will help us understand how dark matter is distributed in the Universe and may allow us to uncover its nature. " - MvWK

URL: https://www.durham.ac.uk/news-events/latest-news/2025/03/euclid-q1-data-release/

An Interactive Map of the Universe Permalink

Published: September 01, 2017

Map of all known astronomical objects in the Universe (up to 2017) including quasars, galaxies, stars, exoplanets, asteroids, artificial satellites, and more for display at the Global Data Observatory. Full map with labels available here.

URL: https://www.imperial.ac.uk/research-and-innovation/research-office/funder-information/funding-opportunities/internal-funding-opportunities/iaa/case-studies/stfc-case-studies/an-interactive-map-of-the-universe/

Maximilian von Wietersheim-Kramsta