Remarkably, a paper presented to the Royal Society in December 1797 by the then King's Astronomer, Sir William Herschel, (who had discovered Uranus in 1781),…
Next week Dr Mike Hapgood of the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory will present a model at the Royal Astronomical Society National Astronomy Meeting in Preston,…
In a plenary talk on Tuesday 17 April at the Royal Astronomical Society National Astronomy Meeting in Preston, Dr James Klimchuk of the Naval Research…
Scientists have now made a major breakthrough in understanding this complexity by studying the ‘skeleton’ of the magnetic field. A team of scientists from St…
On Tuesday 17 and Wednesday 18 April at the RAS National Astronomy Meeting in Preston, Professor Richard Harrison and Dr Chris Davis of the Rutherford Appleton…
Like a tenuous gas, dark matter is all around us – it goes through us all the time without us noticing – but tends to collect in large quantities around…
This discovery allows the astronomers to study the first important stages in the formation of the kind of galaxies we see in the Universe today. One of the…
In a talk on Tuesday 17 April at the Royal Astronomical Society National Astronomy Meeting in Preston, Professor Michael Bode of Liverpool John Moores…
Speaking at the Royal Astronomical Society National Astronomy Meeting in Preston on Tuesday 17 April, Professor Barstow will present a map of the local…
“This is the first model that goes into some reasonable detail about the nuclear physics that occur in the crusts of accreting neutron stars,” said Hendrik…
One that was different. One that was simpler. And best of all, one that he was sure would work.It was the August 2005 meeting of the physicists working and…
School students from across Europe and beyond have won prizes in an astronomy competition, including the trip of a lifetime to one of the world's most powerful…
ESA's Darwin mission aims to discover extrasolar planets and examine their atmospheres for signs of life, particularly for the presence of certain life-related…
The new high field magnet, which is planned to be completed at the Hahn-Meitner-Institute Berlin (HMI) by 2011, will generate a magnetic field between 25 tesla…
In a collaboration of experts in organic materials and nanofabrication, researchers have created one of the smallest organic light-emitting devices to date,…
The new process is based on the use of visible light, ultra short pulse laser. When focused inside photopolymerizable material the radiation causes a reaction,…
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