South Korean researchers have designed and built an inexpensive optical lens that collects light from a large area and produces a virtually distortion-free…
The study, published in Nature Physics, focused on extremely short laser pulses, less than 10 femtoseconds long – a femtosecond is one million-billionth of a…
Astronomers are reporting remarkable new findings that shed light on a decade-long debate about one kind of supernovae, the explosions that mark a star's final…
With his six crewmates, he will fly to the International Space Station on a mission to add a new section to its truss structure and to reroute electrical power…
Using an ultra-stable laser to manipulate strontium atoms trapped in a “lattice” made of light, scientists at JILA have demonstrated the capability to produce…
The device could be used for making better materials, for example for use in electronics, optics and biotechnology.Transmission electron microscopy (TEM) has…
Since its launch in March 2004, Rosetta has been bouncing around the inner solar system on a trajectory that will eventually lead it to its final destination…
Professor Mike Edmunds and Dr Tony Freeth, of Cardiff University led the team who believe they have finally cracked the workings of the Antikythera Mechanism,…
The Solid Booster Test Bench (BEAP) is the unique test pad at the Guiana Space Centre, Europe’s Spaceport. Since 1993, it has seen the successful testing of…
Constructing this gigantic scientific machine is a technological and logistical challenge for CERN and its industrial partners. The LHC accelerator was…
“We have pretty unambiguous evidence for ‘p-wave’ symmetry with a complex order parameter that breaks time-reversal symmetry in this ruthenate superconductor,”…
The outburst was discovered on 17 September 2006 by staff at the Integral Science Data Centre (ISDC), Versoix, Switzerland. Inside the ISDC, astronomers…
The proposed simulator is unique because it could let researchers control how individual particles move and interact with each other. This ability to control…
Ever since the late 1970s, scientists have known of a similar polar vortex on Earth's nearest neighbour. For six months now, ESA’s Venus Express has been…
The wires are made of carbon nanotubes that measure approximately 2 nanometers in diameter. The researchers have published an article on the subject this week…
Neanderthals first appeared in Europe approximately 200,000 years ago and became extinct about 25,000 years ago. These predecessors of modern humans have…
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