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Magellanic Stream mystery solved by Hubble telescope

September 16, 2013
News
A 40-year old mystery has been solved by astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. They have uncovered the origin of the Magellanic Stream, a long ribbon of gas stretching nearly...
Physics & Engineering
Astronomy, Physics
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Organic solar cells in a spin

September 13, 2013
News
Manipulating the ‘spin’ of electrons in organic solar cells can drastically improve their performance, say researchers from Cambridge and Washington. Their findings may have implications in cheap, high performing solar...
Chemistry, Physics & Engineering
Chemistry, Green Chemistry, Physics, Thermodynamics
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Robotic frog improves boring mating call

August 12, 2013
News
A robotic frog has aided researchers to discover that manipulated mating calls can be very attractive to female túngara frogs. Micheal Ryan and Ryan Taylor conducted the research, published in...
Life Sciences, Physics & Engineering
Biological Sciences, Computer Science, Zoology
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Glassblowing with Stephanie Preston

August 6, 2013
Insight
All of us at some stage in our careers have used scientific glassware – but how do those intricate and often beautiful shapes come to be? We spoke to scientific...
Physics & Engineering
Chemical Engineering, Engineering, Interviews
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Solar tsunami used to measure Sun’s magnetic field

August 2, 2013
News
A solar tsunami has been used to provide the first accurate estimates of the Sun’s magnetic field.Solar tsunamis are produced by huge explosions in the Sun’s atmosphere called coronal mass...
Physics & Engineering
Astronomy, Physics
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Hear a heartbeat in space

July 27, 2013
News
A new electronic stethoscope designed for NASA could deliver accurate heart and body sounds to doctors assessing the health of astronauts in a noisy spacecraft.Despite the silence of space itself,...
Physics & Engineering
Astronomy, Physics
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Maths model explains why our Universe is a hologram

July 15, 2013
News
Researchers have taken a significant step to understanding the physics behind the structure of the Universe according to the holographic principle, by linking the two space-time theories.The Physical Review D...
Physics & Engineering
Astronomy, Physics, Theoretical Physics
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Doughnut-shaped electromagnetic fields demystify dark matter

July 5, 2013
News
A pair of physicists say their simple theory may explain dark matter – the mysterious, invisible form of matter that makes up 85% of the universe.Professor Robert Scherrer and post-doctoral...
Physics & Engineering
Astronomy, Physics
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Mars – warm, wet and rusty long before Earth

July 4, 2013
News
New evidence from the NASA Mars rover suggests that the red planet was wet, warm and had oxygen billions of years before Earth's atmosphere became oxygen rich.Differences between Martian meteorites...
Physics & Engineering
Astronomy, Physics
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Putting the physics into spin

July 4, 2013
News
As the Ashes series gets underway next week, physicists from Australia have been exploring the physics behind the spin of a cricket ball. Siblings Garry and Ian Robinson, Honorary Visiting...
Physics & Engineering
Physics, Solid State Physics
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