The agencies' new “Network and Operations Cross-support” agreement covers the ongoing provision to each other of services for missions where no specific…
By focusing on the absorption of the cosmic microwave background by atoms of neutral hydrogen, the researchers say, they could measure the fine-structure…
NAU researchers Glen Cushing and Jut Wynne, working at the U.S. Geological Survey, propose that photos from the Mars Odyssey mission reveal football-field size…
Scientist of the centuryLeonhard Euler was the greatest scientist of the 18th century. So claims Ed Sandifer in this month's Physics World where he looks at…
On the evening of 25 March 2007, the Multi-Conjugate Adaptive Optics Demonstrator (MAD) achieved First Light at the Visitor Focus of Melipal, the third Unit…
New Horizons made its closest approach to Jupiter on 28 February 2007. Its principal objective was to use the gravity of the giant planet to slingshot it…
The Conference had the theme “Planetarium through ages: Vision 2027”. It was attended by directors and professionals of all the major planetariums in the…
The chips inside an electronic device give off heat as a byproduct of power consumption when the object is on or being used. To reduce high temperatures, heat…
In a paper to be published in the April 2007 issue of the journal Icarus, a team of University of California, Berkeley, and Paris Observatory astronomers…
You might think that the science of boiling had been worked out some time ago, but it still has some mysteries, particularly at the nanometer scale. As water…
Finnish scientists have invented a new propulsion method which utilises the solar wind, promises high speed for small payloads and may be technically possible…
Combining precise observations obtained by ESO's Very Large Telescope with those gathered by a network of smaller telescopes, astronomers have described in…
Normally, when a piece of metal – such as a paperclip – is bent, the change in shape becomes permanent. But, when heat is added to bent metal films having the…
The double sunset that Luke Skywalker gazed upon in the film “Star Wars” might not be a fantasy. Astronomers using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have…
“It appears that aggression, not celebration, determined how much spectators planned to drink after the match,” says lead author Simon Moore, of the Violence…
The GridPP project is building a computing Grid to analyse data from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), a new particle accelerator near Geneva, which will be…
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