Ole Peters, a 27-year-old physicist with expertise in “critical phenomena” and “self organized criticality” — which he acknowledges is “a bit of a rogue…
Their discovery could allow scientists to finally understand the interaction between the solar wind and the Earth’s magnetic field. This exciting new view of…
Both studies involve the jet of the quasar 3C273, famous since its identification in 1963 as the first quasar. It now appears that the most energetic radiation…
But atoms are not willing subjects. They jiggle furiously, defying any microscopist who tries to catch them at a standstill. Nor are they polite: The larger…
“It is exciting to have quadrupled the known population of Neptune Trojans,” said Carnegie Hubble Fellow Scott Sheppard, lead author of the study, which…
ExoMars will explore the Martian surface with a mobile rover and a stationary science module. ExoMars will: • search for traces of past and present life at,…
This colossal 'ball of fire' is by far the largest object of this kind ever identified. The gas ball is about three million light years across, or about five…
The authors’ basic premise lies in the reduction of costs on obtaining energy en route and in its more rational use. In other words, the scientists have not…
Provided you know in which direction to look, spotting the ISS with the naked eye is not as difficult as it might seem. Although the ISS travels at a speed of…
During his PhD research, Jorden van Dam focused on semiconductor nanowires. These are extremely thin wires (1-100 nanometers thick) made of, for example, the…
Pamela, (Payload for Antimatter Matter Exploration and Light-nuclei Astrophysics) will stay in Space for at least three years, on a quasi-polar elliptic orbit…
The HRSC obtained these images during orbit 987 with a ground resolution of approximately 11.1 metres per pixel. The images show part of Apollinaris Patera, a…
Each Raman peak corresponds to a specific vibration and provides information (even on heterogeneous materials) such as the phases nature, distribution,…
The scientific team trained their telescopes on Supernova 2003gd, which exploded in the NGC 628 spiral galaxy 30 million light-years from Earth. The light from…
The Southern constellation Tucana (the Toucan) is probably best known as the home of the Small Magellanic Cloud, one of the satellite galaxies of the Milky…
Super-Earths have masses that range between those of Earth and Neptune but have unknown compositions. “Of the 300 stars closest to the Sun, at least 230 are…
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