After a decade of travel in outer space to reach the comet Chury, and two years spent studying it, the Rosetta mission comes to an end this Friday. The mission…
The scientists from Tohoku University, the University of Tokyo, the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, and the University of Tsukuba, used the Atacama…
Optical quantum computers are what people are pinning their hopes on for tomorrow’s computer technology – whether for tap-proof data encryption, ultrafast…
An international team headed by HZB scientist Prof. Michael Giersig has recently demonstrated for these applications that networks of metallic mesh possessing…
If we had to choose the most important and newsworthy piece of science news for 2016, the discovery of gravitational waves would have every chance of winning…
The telescope—known as FAST—uses a data system developed at the International Centre for Radio Astronomy (ICRAR) in Perth and the European Southern Observatory…
Elpasolite is a glassy, transparent, shiny and soft mineral with a cubic crystal structure. First discovered in El Paso County (Colorado, USA), it can also be…
The hole in the ozone layer over Antarctica became an international cause for concern in the latter half of the 20th Century, but as EUMETSAT’s Atmospheric…
Researchers at Aalto University and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have demonstrated that polaron formation also occurs in a system of magnetic charges,…
A team of scientists including A*STAR researchers has captured tiny flashes of light from an ultrathin layer of organic molecules sandwiched between two…
In his Nobel Lecture on December 8, 2000, Herbert Kroemer coined the saying “the interface is the device”. Kroemer referred to the mature field of…
The energy bursts caused by the ELMs would be a detrimental event, as it can potentially damage the internal components of the fusion plasma devices like ITER….
The technique used to investigate the inner details of NGC 1052 is known as very-long-baseline interferometry, and has the potential to locate compact jet…
An international team of astronomers using the Hubble space telescope have been able to study stellar evolution in action. They observed dramatic increases in…
A number of extrasolar planets have been found in the past two decades and now researchers agree that planets can have a wide variety of characteristics….
Materials that conduct electricity at high temperature but are insulating at lower temperatures have been known for decades. However, until recently it was not…
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