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Happy Birthday CERN!
September 29, 2014
Today marks 60 years since the 12 founding member states ratified the CERN convention and the European Organization for Nuclear Research was born.The world's largest particle physics laboratory is celebrating...
Meteorite points to life on Mars
September 24, 2014
A tiny fragment of Martian meteorite has added to the growing body of evidence that the red plant might have hosted life. Upon this meteorite, researchers found a cell-like structure...
Underestimation of dust threatens BICEP results
September 22, 2014
Spinning dust grains have put a dampener on the celebrations that cosmologists have found faint signals of cosmic background radiation released a fraction of a second after the Big Bang.In...
Cheetah-bot’s successful test run
September 22, 2014
Cheetahs are the fasted land mammal on Earth, capable of going zero to 60 miles per hour in a matter of seconds, and researchers at MIT have developed an algorithm...
Alice returns results
September 15, 2014
Alice, the miniature ultra-violet imaging spectrograph aboard the Rosetta orbiter, has successfully relayed its first science data from Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko – it’s darker than expected. NASA’s Alice has been mapping...
Galaxy forming stars at ferocious rate
September 5, 2014
A galaxy giving birth to new stars at a ferocious rate has been spotted by NASA astronomers. Dubbed Sparky, the fully-developed elliptical galaxy is a gas-deficient mass of ancient stars...
Lithium problem solved…almost
September 4, 2014
Lithium has proved to be a stubborn problem for astrophysicists; the quantities predicted to have resulted from the Big Bang are not present in stars, but the figures have recently...
Van der Waals prevents asteroid spinning apart
August 27, 2014
A near-Earth asteroid rotates so quickly that it defies gravity and is held together by van der Waals cohesive forces, a phenomenon never before seen on an asteroid. Researchers from...
Self-assembly robots that walk away
August 21, 2014
A combination of origami and electronic engineering has led to the development of a robot that simply folds itself up and walks away. Using paper and polystyrene, researchers from Harvard...
New string theory explains guitarists’ sounds
August 7, 2014
A University of Oxford scientist has developed a new string theory in which he describes how the techniques employed by lead guitarists result in their distinctive sound. Methods such as...
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