This discovery allows the astronomers to study the first important stages in the formation of the kind of galaxies we see in the Universe today. One of the…
Like a tenuous gas, dark matter is all around us – it goes through us all the time without us noticing – but tends to collect in large quantities around…
On Tuesday 17 and Wednesday 18 April at the RAS National Astronomy Meeting in Preston, Professor Richard Harrison and Dr Chris Davis of the Rutherford Appleton…
Scientists have now made a major breakthrough in understanding this complexity by studying the ‘skeleton’ of the magnetic field. A team of scientists from St…
In a plenary talk on Tuesday 17 April at the Royal Astronomical Society National Astronomy Meeting in Preston, Dr James Klimchuk of the Naval Research…
Next week Dr Mike Hapgood of the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory will present a model at the Royal Astronomical Society National Astronomy Meeting in Preston,…
Remarkably, a paper presented to the Royal Society in December 1797 by the then King's Astronomer, Sir William Herschel, (who had discovered Uranus in 1781),…
The asteroid was officially recognised as part of a Near-Earth Object observing programme with German astronomers Lothar Kurtze and Felix Harmouth. UK…
Dr Anita Richards, who is presenting results at the RAS National Astronomy Meeting in Preston on 17th April, said, “Red supergiants lose more than half their…
Dr Wareing and his colleagues used the COBRA supercomputer to simulate in three-dimensions the movement of a dying star through surrounding interstellar gas….
Harold DeMonaco and Eric von Hippel say that there is now a body of research to support their assertion. “Such studies found that self-management produced…
“Recent comments from the inside of the Global Fund,” say Gorik Ooms (Médecins Sans Frontières, Belgium) and colleagues, “suggest an intention to focus more on…
Margaret Conner and colleagues from Baylor College of Medicine, Houston Texas, tested samples obtained from hospitalized children with gastroenteritis and…
Injecting meatballs with collagen can help the meat to retain the important nutrients iodine and thiamine, a new study by researchers from the Agricultural…
Doing research at the Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Breivik explores the connection between cancer development and Darwinian evolution. In a recent…
The world’s first trials of advanced new wireless communication technologies have started in Dublin. The globally unique trials are being conducted by an…