To be able to calibrate these measuring instruments, ultra-pure water is required as a reference fluid – the density of which can now be measured with the…
X-ray interferometers can measure lengths in the mm range with sub-nm resolution, whereby the almost perfect crystal grid of high-purity silicon is used as a…
Fizeau interferometers generate an interference between the surface of a test sample and a reference surface that is brought close to the test sample. The…
The heat being generated on the moon's south pole at a hot spot is enough to eject plumes of ice and vapor above Enceladus. These plumes, according to William…
The 48 m3 pressurised module of the largest, most complex automated spacecraft ever developed in Europe has been inspected and closed, fulfilling the most…
The £140 million Second Target Station Project will double the capacity of the world-leading ISIS research centre and significantly increase its capability for…
The stunning amount of forest devastation at Tunguska a century ago in Siberia may have been caused by an asteroid only a fraction as large as previously…
“Here we have this very bright burst, yet it's surrounded by darkness on all sides,” says Brad Cenko of the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena,…
MIT will lead a $375-million mission to map the moon's interior and reconstruct its thermal history, NASA announced this week.The Gravity Recovery And Interior…
The research activities of the CIEMAT are intimately related to the experimental program at the CERN (The European laboratory for Nuclear Research at Geneva in…
The RAS does however welcome the announcement by the Secretary of State at the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills, John Denham, that he is…
Scientists believe ultracold polar molecules will allow them to create exotic artificial crystals and stable quantum computers.”The neat thing about this…
New observations by NASA's Cassini spacecraft indicate the rings of Saturn, once thought to have formed during the age of the dinosaurs, instead may have been…
Swapping data between media like this would allow information to be captured and retained for very brief intervals. Data could be stored within pockets of…
More than 10 years after the discovery of the first extrasolar planet, astronomers have now discovered more than 250 of these planets. Until a few years ago,…
Being fooled by a cosmic giant is no laughing matter for an astronomer. For years astronomers racked their brains over the relation between two in X-rays…
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