All Physics


‘Styrofoam’ planet promises much for habitable planet search

Evoluted New Media | Added: 7 Jun 2017

Researchers at Lehigh University in the US have discovered a new planet with a styrofoam-like densi…

Exoplanet research uncovers simple atmosphere

Evoluted New Media | Added: 24 May 2017

Astronomers have unexpectedly discovered a primitive atmosphere around a ‘warm Neptune’.

What's the (anti)matter

Evoluted New Media | Added: 9 May 2017

Do we need to reconsider general relativity? Have we really grasped fundamental particles? Why is t…

‘Normal’ galaxy excites astronomers

Evoluted New Media | Added: 8 May 2017

Astronomers in California have discovered one of the most distant galaxies in the universe – and no…

The Herculean effort to define the kilogram

Evoluted New Media | Added: 28 Apr 2017

One year ago today, Dr Bryan Kibble, an esteemed scientist from the National Physical Laboratory, b…

Fake it ‘til you make it…

Evoluted New Media | Added: 18 Apr 2017

In the hunt for dark energy, cosmologist Dr Massimo Viola has become embroiled in a tale of decepti…

Huge gravitational wave burst displaces black hole

Evoluted New Media | Added: 10 Apr 2017

Astronomers have discovered a supermassive black hole that appears to have been propelled from the …

Ultra-fast winds explain galaxy growth

Evoluted New Media | Added: 22 Mar 2017

Scientists at the University of Cambridge have captured the most detailed measurements of gases flo…

Mapping the stars’ family tree

Evoluted New Media | Added: 13 Mar 2017

By taking advantage of techniques used in archaeology and biology, researchers are building a famil…

Trappist travel poster

Evoluted New Media | Added: 1 Mar 2017

A travel poster by NASA imagining a trip to the new exoplanets announced in late February, Trappist…

Self-assembly brightens LED future

Evoluted New Media | Added: 14 Feb 2017

Researchers at Princeton, have created a technique enabling the self-assembly of perovskite crystal…

Optogenetics breakthrough achieved in Japan

Evoluted New Media | Added: 9 Feb 2017

Light has been successfully used by a Japanese researcher to manipulate gene expression to produce …

Planetary ‘spitballs’ hurtled from galaxy’s centre

Evoluted New Media | Added: 7 Feb 2017

Researchers believe a giant black hole at the centre of the Milky Way is hurling planet-sized objec…

The man with X-ray vision

Evoluted New Media | Added: 6 Feb 2017

From neutron stars to nebulas – X-ray astronomy has revealed so much of our universe. Here X-ray vi…

A very Jovian affair

Evoluted New Media | Added: 2 Feb 2017

It’s not just the monstrous gravity which gives Jupiter a unique hold over humankind. It has worked…

SESAME synchrotron circulates first beam

Evoluted New Media | Added: 30 Jan 2017

The Middle East’s first ‘light-source laboratory’ has circulated a beam for the first time.

New discovery challenges physics assumption

Evoluted New Media | Added: 25 Jan 2017

The production of narrowband light sources - where electromagnetic radiation would not normally be …

Asteroid exploration missions announced

Evoluted New Media | Added: 12 Jan 2017

NASA has announced two new missions to better understand the early stages of our Solar System.

Mirror created to understand more about Universe’s beginnings

Evoluted New Media | Added: 3 Jan 2017

An international team of astronomers and engineers have created a magnetic mirror that could be use…

Dark matter analysis challenges conventional thinking

Evoluted New Media | Added: 21 Dec 2016

An international team of scientists have discovered that dark matter is less dense throughout space…