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GRAIL visualises man in the Moon

October 8, 2014
News
The Procellarum, a recess on the western edge of the moon, likely arose from a large plume of magma deep within the moon’s interior rather a massive asteroid strike. New...
Physics & Engineering
Astronomy, Physics
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Blue LED wins Physics Nobel Prize

October 7, 2014
News
The invention of the blue light-emitting diodes has scooped this year’s Nobel Prize in Physics. Twenty years ago, Isamu Akasaki, Hiroshi Amano and Shuji Nakamura produced bright light beams from...
Physics & Engineering
Physics
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Happy Birthday CERN!

September 29, 2014
News
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...
Physics & Engineering
Particle Physics, Physics
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Meteorite points to life on Mars

September 24, 2014
News
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...
Life Sciences, Physics & Engineering
Astronomy, Biophysics, Physics
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Underestimation of dust threatens BICEP results

September 22, 2014
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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...
Physics & Engineering
Astronomy, Astrophysics, Physics
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Cheetah-bot’s successful test run

September 22, 2014
News
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...
Physics & Engineering
Computer Science
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Alice returns results

September 15, 2014
News
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...
Physics & Engineering
Astronomy, Astrophysics, Physics
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Galaxy forming stars at ferocious rate

September 5, 2014
News
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...
Physics & Engineering
Astronomy, Astrophysics, Physics
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Lithium problem solved…almost

September 4, 2014
News
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...
Physics & Engineering
Astrophysics, Physics
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Van der Waals prevents asteroid spinning apart

August 27, 2014
News
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...
Physics & Engineering
Astronomy, Physics
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