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Underground ocean found on Jupiter’s largest moon

April 10, 2015
Scientists have used a new approach to find evidence for a subsurface saltwater ocean on Jupiter's largest moon.By using the NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, researchers at University of Cologne in...

LHC smashes protons together once again

April 2, 2015
After a delay, the second run of the Large Hadron Collider – the world’s largest and most powerful particle accelerator – is due to start over this holiday weekend. Following a...

Artificial intelligence speeds up drug discovery

March 3, 2015
An artificially intelligent robot can automatically discover new drugs, improving the cost and speeding up the process.Engineers at the University of Manchester used a method of smart screening and developed...

Japan aims for deep impact

January 22, 2015
The Japanese space agency has launched a mission to return samples collected from deep within an asteroid. The Japanese space agency (JAXA) launched Hayabusa 2 on 3 December from the...

Chancellor puts money where mouth is for mission to Mars

January 19, 2015
In his autumn statement, Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne has made clear Government’s intention that the UK will play a lead role in Europe's ExoMars mission to Mars. The...

Hydrogen detected three billion light years

January 5, 2015
Astronomers have detected faint signals of hydrogen gas at a record distance of three billion light years from Earth. Dr Barbara Catinella and Dr Luca Cortese, astronomers from the Swinburne...

Solving the vanadium dioxide conundrum

December 18, 2014
Researchers have shed new light on a long standing conundrum in condensed-matter physics by combining electron microscopy and laser spectroscopy in novel ways.Vanadium dioxide has intrigued the scientific community since...

X-ray absorption reveals water structure mystery

December 12, 2014
A new twist on x-ray absorption spectroscopy has allowed American scientists to reveal the molecular structure of water at gold electrodes. When a solid is immersed in liquid, the liquid...

New particles found as CERN make data publicly available

November 28, 2014
CERN has announced that the LHCb experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has found two new particles in the baryon family. The organisation – celebrating its 60th anniversary –...

Did gravity save the universe after the Big Bang?

November 27, 2014
The universe did not collapse immediately after the Big Bang and a team of European physicists might be able to explain why. Studies of the Higgs particle have suggested that...

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