Archive

Every long-form story on Scienception, newest first in the conditions-desk sense: we list by editorial date.

• August 18 — SMILE will give UK scientists a wide-angle look at the magnetosphere (Research)
• August 18 — JUICE is a Jupiter mission with a British habit of measuring hostile plasma (Research)
• August 17 — Noctilucent clouds over Scotland are space weather you can see without a magnetometer (Observing)
• August 17 — G1 watch puts Shetland and Northern Ireland on aurora alert (Aurora)
• August 16 — The Chilton ionosonde is still how Britain listens to the layer that steals radio (Infrastructure)
• August 16 — BGS magnetometers map the quiet currents that stress the grid (Infrastructure)
• August 15 — PLATO is the UK's next statistical stare at worlds that transit (Research)
• August 14 — BepiColombo is teaching UK teams how a tiny magnetosphere survives a rude Sun (Sun)
• August 14 — SWIMMR is the quiet programme that taught Britain to model storms (Research)
• August 13 — A Forbush decrease is the solar storm you measure with cosmic rays, not with aurora (Sun)
• August 12 — The Moon's south pole is a UK science target because the ice is a time capsule, not a flag (Research)
• August 12 — RAL Space still builds the UK's eyes on the solar wind (Research)
• August 11 — Solar Orbiter's UK magnetometer is still teaching us how the Sun braids its field (Sun)
• August 10 — SuperDARN radars watch the ionosphere that blackouts North Atlantic HF (Infrastructure)
• August 8 — GNSS scintillation is now a NATS problem, not a hobbyist complaint (Infrastructure)
• August 7 — Cosmic-ray dose on UK long-haul crews is a space-weather story with a union angle (Health)
• August 6 — Coronal-hole streams still ruin UK amateur radio in the most educational way (Observing)
• August 5 — The 10.7 cm radio Sun is the index UK observers should actually quote (Sun)
• August 12 — Perseids over Northumberland still beat a phone screen, if the Moon allows (Observing)
• August 9 — UKMON fireballs are turning casual streaks into orbits (Observing)
• August 4 — Armagh Observatory still does the unfashionable work of following near-Earth objects (Observing)
• August 17 — T Coronae Borealis is the nova UK variable-star observers refuse to ignore (Observing)
• August 3 — Starlink trains are now part of British weather, and the forecast is crowded (Policy)
• August 1 — Spaceport Cornwall is still a science story about horizontal payloads, not a postcard of a runway (Industry)
• July 28 — Saxavord's latitude is a launch asset and a space-weather classroom (Industry)
• July 24 — Glasgow's smallsat factories now sell radiation hardness as a feature (Industry)
• July 21 — SSTL's Earth-observation buses still have to live in a rude plasma (Industry)
• July 18 — Skynet's next solar storm will be a resilience exam, not a parade (Infrastructure)
• July 15 — Ariel is the UK's next long stare at other atmospheres (Research)
• July 10 — JWST's British fingerprints are still in the data, not only in the history (Research)
• July 6 — Euclid's cosmology will be won in UK data centres as much as in space (Research)
• July 2 — Jodrell Bank still hears the Sun when the photosphere looks boring (Observing)
• June 28 — Greenwich can still teach the sky, if CPRE's night-blight maps are taken seriously (Policy)
• June 22 — Halley Research Station still archives a space climate the UK would otherwise forget (Research)
• June 18 — MAST Upgrade at Culham is a torus that keeps teaching fusion the hard way (Research)
• June 12 — STEP at West Burton is a power-station ghost being asked to become a torus (Policy)
• June 8 — Diamond Light Source is where UK space hardware goes to have its atoms interrogated (Research)
• June 2 — The National Quantum campus is building clocks for days when GNSS sulks (Research)
• May 28 — The Faraday Institution is now part of the satellite power-system story (Industry)
• May 20 — Manchester graphene research keeps promising radiation shielding, and the caveats are the science (Research)
• May 14 — The Francis Crick Institute is where spaceflight biology meets a London bench (Health)
• May 8 — Genomics England still shows how a national dataset becomes a scientific instrument (Health)
• May 1 — UKRI's next heliophysics grants will decide whether Britain still measures the Sun (Policy)
• April 24 — Horizon Europe association is still a space-science story about networks, not flags (Policy)
• April 18 — Ofcom's satellite licences are now a debris and spectrum story (Policy)
• April 10 — Satellite re-entries over the UK are becoming a summer evening genre (Observing)
• April 2 — Teesside carbon capture is Earth-system science in a chemical-engineering coat (Climate)
• March 20 — Opinion: Britain needs a civilian space-weather siren for the grid (Opinion)