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The slow thaw

March 19, 2014
Despite the headline-making recent insights, some maintain the Universe didn’t start with the Big Bang; instead it thawed from an extremely cold and almost static state.Professor Christof Wetterich has developed...

New evidence for Big Bang

March 17, 2014
Researchers in America believe they have found a signal left in the sky by the super-rapid expansion of space that must have occurred with the Big Bang. B-mode polarisation –...

Synthetic Dirac monopoles visualised

March 17, 2014
Eighty years ago, Paul Dirac discovered a quantum-mechanical structure which allowed the existence of magnetic monopoles, a framework which has now been experimentally realised.Researchers from Aalto University and Amherst College...

Wobbly spinning top planet found

March 12, 2014
NASA’s Kepler space telescope has spotted a wobbly planet akin to a child’s spinning top near the constellation of Cygnus.Kepler-413b precesses or wobbles on its axis wildly; the tilt of...

Love in the air at CERN

February 14, 2014
As CERN celebrates its 60th anniversary this year, a pair of Italian physicists whose lives have been intertwined with the organisation’s history will be celebrating their 59th wedding anniversary.  Maria...

Revived spacecraft spots new asteroid

January 29, 2014
A NASA spacecraft recently bought out of hibernation has spotted a never-before-seen asteroid.NEOWISE (Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer) was reactivated in September 2013 and received a new name and...

Rosetta successfully revived

January 21, 2014
Comet-chaser Rosetta has successfully been revived from its 31 month slumber; its pre-programmed alarm clock went off early on 20th January and it signalled Earth to let scientists know it...

Ground breaking European missions to probe early universe

January 6, 2014
The ESA has announced their next two L-class missions; one to study galaxy and black hole formation, and one to establish a gravitational wave observatory.The so called Large, or L-class,...

Why the kettle whistles

December 9, 2013
For more than 100 years, scientists have been puzzled as to why a kettle on the stove whistles – what is the physical source of the noise and the specific...

The planet that ‘shouldn’t exist’

December 4, 2013
Astronomers have weighed an Earth-sized planet orbiting another star and concluded that it shouldn’t exist.The results from two independent teams published in Nature confirm Kepler-78b as the first known Earth-sized...

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