Articles tagged with "Physics & Engineering"

Sort by

Essex glassblowers announce £1.2M expansion

May 31, 2019
Scientific equipment manufacturer Radleys has invested more than £1.2 million in a new glassblowing manufacturing facility.

Korea claims advance on 3D-printed corneas

May 29, 2019
A research team in South Korea have used a 3D printer to improve the transparency of artificial corneas.

Supernova linked to human bipedalism

May 29, 2019
A supernova that occurred 8 million years ago has been linked to humans walking on two legs.

Quark founder and Nobel Prize winner passes away

May 28, 2019
US physicist Murray Gell-Mann, a leading figure in the creation of the Standard Model of particle physics, has passed away at the age of 89.

Physicists edge closer to superconductivity at room temperature

May 24, 2019
An international research team has claimed to have raised the temperature at which superconductivity occurs, to around 23°C. The achievement, observed in lanthanum superhydrides under high pressure by scientists at...

Light-powered data storage

May 22, 2019
A superfast and energy efficient method of processing data uses light instead of electricity. Lancaster University scientists developed a small antenna on top of a magnet – which are used...

Space trash

May 17, 2019
Trashy TV sci-fi, Brian Blessed and a surprising scientific gem – Russ Swan bends over backwards to justify a guilty pleasure… We all have our guilty pleasures, and one of...

Endlessly recyclable plastic

May 8, 2019
By separating plastic monomers from chemical additives, researchers may have created fully recyclable plastics. Molecular scientists at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory developed a new type of plastic: polydiketoenamine, or...

NASA detects likely marsquake

April 24, 2019
Seismic activity has been detected on a planet other than Earth for the first time. NASA's InSight space lander detected faint activity from the interior of Mars on April 6,...

Pin It on Pinterest