It will enable scientists to study atoms within materials in a way that has never before been possible and will pave the way for pioneering research relating…
The £80 million shortfall in the Science and Technology Facilities (STFC) budget has resulted in a delivery plan that will lead to job losses at universities…
By employing a new technique – based on the same principle as police speed-measuring radar guns – to satellite radar data, scientists can now obtain…
A giant perturbation occurred amongst its clouds and two extremely bright storms erupted in the middle latitudes of the northern hemisphere, where its most…
The image data was obtained on 13 April 2007 during orbit 4199, with a ground resolution of approximately 13 m/pixel. The Sun illuminates the scene from the…
The HiRISE camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, the most powerful camera to orbit another planet, can see 20-inch-diameter features while flying at…
Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Rice University have created the darkest material ever made by man. The material, a thin coating comprised…
“We have beam down the column,” announced Uli Dahmen of Berkeley Lab's Materials Sciences Division, who is head of NCEM and director of DOE's collaborative…
Carbon nanotubes are attractive candidates for use as the active elements in the next generation of electronic devices. However, it has proven incredibly…
BepiColombo, a mission to make the most comprehensive study of Mercury ever, is due for launch in August 2013. It is the first dual mission to Mercury, with…
The latest country to join the International Year of Astronomy 2009 initiative is the People’s Republic of Bangladesh. This is a particularly welcome addition…
Cosmic strings are predicted by high energy physics theories, including superstring theory. This is based on the idea that particles are not just little…
The researchers' findings reveal a previously unknown mathematical relationship between the different arrangements that interacting particles can take while…
The results were obtained by the OMEGA Visible and Infrared Mineralogical Mapping Spectrometer instrument on board ESA’s Mars Express. Mars is not entirely a…
“Just add water!” said Robert Minchin, an Arecibo astronomer on the project, who explained that methanimine and hydrogen cyanide are two of the basic…
In fact, neutron stars can be considerably more massive than previously believed, and it is more difficult to form black holes, according to new research…
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