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Rosetta catches up to comet 67P
August 6, 2014
Comet-chaser Rosetta has completed its decade-long journey and finally met up with comet 67P.The European Space Agency spacecraft has become the first to rendezvous with a comet, opening up a...
Voyager may not be in interstellar space
August 4, 2014
In 2012, Voyager 1 crossed into interstellar space, but it might not have reached this historic milestone at all. Despite observations suggesting the spacecraft has crossed the boundary, there is...
Titan’s ocean as salty as Dead Sea
July 4, 2014
NASA scientists have firm evidence that the ocean inside Titan, Saturn’s largest moon, might be as salty as the Dead Sea on Earth. Over the last decade, the Space Agency’s...
Spectral rule to measure stars
July 1, 2014
Astronomers have developed a spectral ruler as a means of measuring stars. It is the first standardised set of measurement guidelines for analysing and cataloguing stars: there was previously no...
Chemical sensor on a chip
June 19, 2014
Infrared laser beams are ideal for analysing liquids and gases, and scientists in Vienna have miniaturised the technique to develop a new type of sensor. The method sees a quantum...
Supernova explosions recreated in the lab
June 12, 2014
A scaled supernova explosion has been recreated in the laboratory using lasers 60,000 billion times more powerful than laser pointers. An international team of researchers used the Vulcan laser at...
Mega-Earth found in Kepler-10c
June 6, 2014
The ‘Godzilla of Earths’ has been discovered by astronomers; the new type of planet is a mega-Earth; a rocky world weighing 17 times as much as Earth. It was believed...
Aerospace company set to communicate with NASA spacecraft
June 4, 2014
Aerospace company SkyCorp Inc have been given the go ahead to attempt to communicate with a 35-year-old NASA spacecraft. International Sun-Earth Explorer-3 (ISEE-3) was launched in 1978 to study the...
Celebrating Great British Science
June 3, 2014
Frank James, Professor of the History of Science at the Royal Institution, has nominated Faraday’s electro-magnetic induction ring as his Great British Scientific breakthroughAfter about ten years of searching Michael...
SMRs to improve nuclear power safety
May 21, 2014
New research from the University of Lincoln suggests a new, smaller type of nuclear reactor might be a suitable candidate to meet the world’s growing demand for energy, while simultaneously...
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