The Langton Star Centre’s aim is to inspire students in the sciences by giving them opportunities to work alongside scientists and engineers and take part in authentic research projects.

These include LUCID (Langton Ultimate Cosmic ray Intensity Detector) which is a project applying detector technology from CERN to the Space environment.  Surrey Satellite Technology Limited is developing the student design in collaboration with CERN and NASA.  It is due to fly on satellite Techdemosat in 2012.

CERN@school uses the same detector chip, Medipix, in the classroom to analyse radiation and investigate dose. The chip allows us to visualise radiation.  We have support from the Medipix Collaboration and the Czech Technical University in Prague for this.

Professor Steve Rose of Imperial College has set a number of fusion/plasma related problems to students in the Plasma group. 

The Myelin Basic Protein Project (MBP²) is looking at mechanisms for degradation of the myelin sheath to understand Multiple Sclerosis better.

GROW, Genetic Research On Wheat, will look at analysing wheat growth as a contribution to long term food security concerns. 

We have a large observing programme LUNAR (Langton UNiverse Astronomical Research) with both our new observatory and the Faulkes Telescopes.