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Scott R. White – The man who can heal materials

April 5, 2013
Insight
For many the work of Scott R. White seems like magic – he can make material heal itself when cracked. We caught up with the professor of aerospace engineering and...
Physics & Engineering
Chemical Engineering, Comment And Analysis, Engineering
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World’s saltiest pond suggests water on Mars

March 25, 2013
News
A team of geologists led by Brown University have discovered the secrets of a pond in Antarctica with the world’s highest salt content. Their findings, published in Scientific Reports, suggest...
Earth & Environmental, Physics & Engineering
Astronomy, Earth & Environmental Sciences, Geology, Physics
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Curiosity finds conditions once suited to life on Mars

March 13, 2013
News
An ancient network of rivers on Mars could once have supported life according to the latest findings from NASA’s Curiosity rover.Scientists have identified clay materials in the powder the rover...
Physics & Engineering
Astronomy, Physics
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Shedding light on solar flares

March 13, 2013
News
Astrophysicists at the University of Glasgow are investigating auroras to better understand the mechanism behind energy transport in solar flares.Researchers from the University’s School of Physics and Astronomy suggest, in...
Physics & Engineering
Astrophysics, Physics
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New evidence that asteroid caused dinosaur demise

March 11, 2013
News
In an attempt to discover what wiped out the dinosaurs, researchers have now determined the most precise dates yet for dinosaur extinction and for the well-known impact that occurred around...
Physics & Engineering
Astronomy, Physics
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Weighing the most distant black holes

February 27, 2013
News
A new technique that can measure the mass of supermassive black holes may revolutionise our understanding of their formation and how they help to shape galaxies. The method involves detecting...
Physics & Engineering
Astronomy, Physics
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One step closer to teleportation

February 18, 2013
News
Once dismissed by Einstein as “spooky action at a distance,” new research suggests that quantum entanglement may hold the key to eventual teleportation. Researchers from Cambridge University, University College London...
Physics & Engineering
Physics, Theoretical Physics
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One in six stars has Earth-sized planet

February 4, 2013
News
A new analysis of Kepler spacecraft data has revealed that about 17% of stars have an Earth-sized planet in an orbit closer than Mercury. This means (since the Milky Way...
Physics & Engineering
Astronomy, Astrophysics, Physics
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New state of matter produced by LHC

January 21, 2013
News
Collisions between protons and lead ions at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) may have produced a new type of matter known as colour-glass condensate.When particle beams interact at high speeds,...
Physics & Engineering
Condensed Matter Physics, Physics
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Galaxy cluster ‘dark core’ not so dark after all

January 18, 2013
News
When NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope observed an overabundance of dark matter in the core of the merging dark galaxy cluster Abell 520 earlier this year, astronomers were surprised. However, new...
Physics & Engineering
Astronomy, Physics
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