October 23, 2024

Pioneering success of UK Quantum Communications Hub paves way for super-secure networks

York, 23 October 2024 Ten years of groundbreaking contributions to securing digital data transfers are being celebrated by the University of York-led Quantum Communications Hub. The creation of an unhackable UK quantum-secured network is now possible thanks to Hub success developing working testbeds around Bristol and Cambridge, connected via London.

August 28, 2024

State-of-the-art telescope paves way for space tech cluster at Heriot-Watt

Heriot-Watt University has taken its first major step towards creating a ‘space cluster’ at its Edinburgh campus. Edinburgh City Council recently approved milestone plans for a £2.5 million, state-of-the-art telescope station at the University’s Research Park on the western outskirts of the capital. The Hub Optical Ground Station (HOGS) aims to demonstrate and test satellite quantum […]

May 16, 2024

Quantum City launches new website to engage next generation of quantum scientists

Quantum City, a public engagement initiative set up by UK National Quantum Technologies Programme partners in 2018, has reached a new milestone in the launch of a new website (quantumcity.org.uk) aiming to inform and capture the imaginations of people interested in understanding more about quantum technologies. Quantum technologies will soon be used in our everyday […]

April 25, 2024

Second series of Quantum Career Fact Sheets now published!

The development and commercialisation of quantum technologies is an exciting area of research innovation, currently being supported by unprecedented levels of investment on a global level. In the UK alone, last year’s national quantum strategy set out an ambitious ten-year vision for the country to be a leading quantum-enabled economy, with these emerging technologies driving […]

April 14, 2024

Final three winners of the Quantum Shorts flash fiction competition

Three stories inspired by quantum physics have claimed prizes in the final round of the international Quantum Shorts competition. First Prize goes to the author of “A World in Threads” – in which a girl searches for a perfect reality through many worlds. “The Observer”, where the emergence of observers within an observed universe causes […]

March 11, 2024

Ten Quantum Shorts finalists selected from record number of submissions

The international Quantum Shorts competition received a record 650 entries in its last call for flash fiction that takes inspiration from quantum physics. Now, it is delighted to present the 10 finalists. Quantum Shorts is organised by the Centre for Quantum Technologies in Singapore.  The Quantum Communications Hub through its involvement in the outreach partnership […]