A team led by Adam Riess, a professor in The Johns Hopkins University's Henry A. Rowland Department of Physics and Astronomy and a Space Telescope Institute…
Named “Sigma-sub-b” particles, the two exotic and incredibly quick to decompose particles are like rare jewels mined from mountains of data, said team leader…
RAS President, Professor Michael Rowan-Robinson, said: “We are aiming to publish books of a wide variety of types and levels, but all at the highest scientific…
Thanks to this technology, it has now been proven that the seemingly chaotic cluster of bacterial DNA is in fact organized and can function dynamically….
The two Double Star satellites were launched in December 2003 and July 2004 respectively – a schedule that enabled them to operate alongside ESA's Cluster…
The integration of Planck's two instruments marks a major milestone for the mission. “We have been working on the design of these instruments for 14 years. For…
In addition to saving time, the technique – which is detailed in the November issue of the journal Nano Letters – could save lives by rapidly detecting a…
For the first time, astronomers have mapped the rate of acceleration of cosmic ray electrons in a supernova remnant. The new map shows that the electrons are…
According to new results published by Dr. Henrik Svensmark of the Danish National Space Center in the journal Astronomische Nachrichten, the variability in the…
New research done by Henrik Svensmark at the Danish National Space Center shows that data from microscopic fossil seashells can be used to define important…
The award recognises both the speed with which the mission was put together and the unprecedented study it is making of Earth’s nearest planetary neighbour….
In an experiment at CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research), located near Geneva, the scientists have demonstrated that a beam of antiprotons can…
COROT is expected to greatly enlarge the number of known exoplanets during its two-year mission and provide the first detection of rocky planets, perhaps just…
Marin Soljacic of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology will present research by himself and his colleagues Aristeidis Karalis and John Joannopoulos on the…
The group is offering to put logos, photos, messages and other images on its new Earth-orbiting research spacecraft which will be launched into orbit in 2010. …
The structure which consists in particular of hydrogen, fluorine, carbon and copper, has been realized in an entirely novel, three-dimensional and very stable…
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