Physics and Astronomy
This area deals with the fundamental laws and building blocks of nature and how they interact, the properties and the behavior of matter, and research into space and time and their structures.
innovations-report provides in-depth reports and articles on subjects such as astrophysics, laser technologies, nuclear, quantum, particle and solid-state physics, nanotechnologies, planetary research and findings (Mars, Venus) and developments related to the Hubble Telescope.
Eye of Gaia: billion-pixel camera to map Milky Way
While the naked human eye can see several thousand stars on a clear night, Gaia will map a billion stars within our own Milky Way Galaxy and its neighbours…
Final space shuttle to carry 5 CU-Boulder-built payloads
One experiment, sponsored by the global pharmaceutical companies Amgen and UCB, will test an antibody to sclerostin — a protein that has a negative effect on…
More than 1 in 10 chance of colder UK winters
Last year, the same group of researchers, from the University of Reading, linked colder winters in Europe to low solar activity and predicted that the Sun is…
Important step in the next generation of computing
Scientists have taken one step closer to the next generation of computers. Research from the Cavendish Laboratory, the University of Cambridge's Department of…
Researchers Image Electron Clouds on Graphene Surface
The research, which appeared June 28 in Nature Communications, was conducted by UB, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), the Molecular…
Tug-of-War Between Electrons Can Lead to Magnetism
The three physicists have proposed that it would be possible to create a quantum dot — a kind of nanoparticle — that is magnetic under surprising…