The ATV is presented in two sections. The section containing rocket engines, flight electronics and the propellant is still surrounded with 10-metre high…
NGC 4449 has been forming stars since several billion years ago, but currently it is experiencing a star formation event at a much higher rate than in the…
Europe is playing a key role in this global programme with three new instruments, including the €1 billion Herchel Space Observatory (HSO), and the European…
Also called nacre (“NAY-ker”), mother-of-pearl is 3,000 times more fracture-resistant than the mineral it is made of, aragonite, says Pupa Gilbert, a physicist…
It is distinguished from its analogues because it is a highly sensitive method that allows you to detect a razor blade, a coin, or even a small pin in the…
By incorporating the physics of black holes into a highly sophisticated model running on a powerful supercomputing system, an international team of scientists…
In the June issue of the journal Nature Nanotechnology, Ohio State University researchers describe how they created surfaces that, seen with the eye, look as…
The galaxy, known as MCG +05-43-16, is 380 million light-years from Earth. Until this year, astronomers had never sighted a supernova popping off in this…
The jet was found in Circinus X-1, a system where a neutron star is in orbit around a star several times the mass of the Sun, about 20,000 light years from…
The Monte Carlo method is a basic tool in particle transport problems, and it is well suited for tasks requiring the detailed modelling of geometry and…
Who will be first to step on the Mars? Resolution of these matters of principle was the task of big politics, therefore, nobody counted the resources. After…
Following four and a half months of assembly, integration and testing at ESTEC, the groundbreaking student experiment was shipped to TsSKB-Progress in Samara,…
The COST Action contributed jointly with the EUREKA ENIWEP (European Network for Industrial Wear Prevention) Umbrella also dealing with friction control and…
The LHC is a scientific instrument of unprecedented complexity, and at 27 kilometres in circumference, the world’s largest superconducting installation….
Physicists at the University of Pennsylvania are using a new technique to craft some of the tiniest metal nanostructures ever created, none larger than 10…
A terrorist organisation or rogue state could threaten essential satellite systems, say Adrian Gheorghe of Old Dominion University Norfolk, in Virginia, USA…
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