Physics & Astronomy

Physics & Astronomy

Discovering Cellulose: Key to Life’s Paper Trail on Mars

The cover story for the April issue of the journal Astrobiology, the new research also pushes back the earliest direct evidence of biological material on Earth…

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Stanford researchers develop tool that 'sees' internal body details 1,000 times smaller

This technique, called Raman spectroscopy, expands the available toolbox for the field of molecular imaging, said team leader Sanjiv Sam Gambhir, MD, PhD,…

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Microscopic Dental Checks: Innovations in Oral Health Care

Imagine that for the annual routine check-up your dentist had to take your teeth out in order to examine them thoroughly for caries under a microscope….

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Innovative Soils: A New Approach to Combat Climate Change

A team from Newcastle University aims to design soils that can remove carbon from the atmosphere, permanently and cost-effectively. This has never previously…

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Zefiro 23 Qualification Test Achieves 930 kN Thrust

Ignition of the qualification model of the Zefiro 23 solid-propellant rocket motor occurred at 13:15 CET. In just 14 seconds, the thrust reached 930 kN,…

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Discovering NGC 2397: Insights on Its Exploding Star Event

NGC 2397, pictured in this image from Hubble, is a classic spiral galaxy with long prominent dust lanes along the edges of its arms, seen as dark patches and…

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Farthest Galaxy Cluster Discovered 11.4 Billion Light Years Away

UC Irvine scientists have discovered a cluster of galaxies in a very early stage of formation that is 11.4 billion light years from Earth – the farthest of its…

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Discover the Universe: Insights from the Large Hadron Collider

Deep in the bowels of the earth –100 metres below ground in Geneva, Switzerland – lies a supermachine of 27 km circumference called the Large Hadron Collider…

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Newly Discovered Star Systems Mark a Historic First

In a paper published in a recent issue of the Astrophysical Journal Letters, Ohio State University astronomers and their colleagues suggest that these star…

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How Stars Formed in the Early Universe: Insights from Belfast

In his talk at the RAS National Astronomy Meeting in Belfast on Tuesday 1 April, team member Dr Scott Chapman from the Institute of Astronomy in Cambridge will…

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Old Galaxies Unite in Young Universe: Findings from RAS Meeting

University of Nottingham PhD student Will Hartley, who led the study, will speak at the RAS National Astronomy Meeting in Belfast on Tuesday 1 April.The…

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Magnetic Substorms: Insights From Ground and Space Research

To better understand substorms, scientists in Europe and North America are studying them from space using the Time History of Events and Macroscale…

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Discover How Bombardier Beetles Inspire Spray Technologies

The bombardier beetle, found mainly in Africa and Asia, is remarkable in that it can fire a powerful jet of hot, toxic fluid to fight off predators such as…

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SuperWASP Discovers 10 New Planets in Just 6 Months

The results from the Wide Area Search for Planets (SuperWASP) will be announced by team member Dr Don Pollacco of Queen’s University Belfast, in his talk at…

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3D Imaging Unveils New Insights into Magnetic Fields

Recently, researchers from the Hahn-Meitner-Institute (HMI) in Berlin in cooperation with the University of Aplied Science in Berlin have succeeded, for the…

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New Superconducting Phase Discovered in Organic Materials

Novel experiments on organic superconductors revealed a new superconducting phase between the normal conducting and the superconducting state, which was…

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