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This isn’t the binary system you’re looking for…

May 8, 2018
Artificial intelligence is helping astronomers study the habitability of circumbinary planets – those that orbit two stars instead of just one, much like the fictional planet Tatooine in the Star...

Creating and deleting magnets with a laser

May 1, 2018
An international team of scientists have found a way to write and delete magnets in an alloy using a laser beam – opening up new possibilities in the fields of...

Grants given for Blockchain in science

May 1, 2018
Two teams have received a grant made available to any project implementing Blockchain in science, especially those that addressed the dissemination of research.Research technology incubator, Digital Science has announced the...

AI scholarships open at Warwick

April 30, 2018
New scholarships to fund MPHil or PhD research students in Artificial Intelligence have been launched at the University of Warwick.A half million pound donation by Warwick graduate and AI technology...

Shedding light on dark matter

April 18, 2018
Physicists have claimed the discovery of a new material that may be able to directly detect dark matter.The material, known as a scintillator, should be sensitive to dark matter that...

Cheap Mini-satellites revolutionise data collection

April 16, 2018
Earth scientists have suggested that high-resolution data collected by miniaturized satellites heralds a turning point in Earth and environmental sensing from space.The advent of small, specialized satellites called CubeSats are...

The bare-bones of hypergravity

April 9, 2018
A team of student biologists have been selected to take part to study the effect of hypergravity on bone development as apart of the in the European Space Agency’s Spin...

The future character of medicine

March 23, 2018
Nanotechnology offers great promise for the improvement of the treatment of a number of diseases. However, access to the expertise and methodologies required to characterise new nanomaterials is limited. The...

Milky Way steps up in gravitational arms race

March 21, 2018
The apparently inevitable death of our own galaxy as it is engulfed by it’s nearest galactic neighbour _– the Andromeda galaxy – might be less inevitable than previously thought.Astronomers have...

Some like it hot

March 16, 2018
The problem of ‘hot electrons’ mean that photovoltaic cells only harvest part of the sunlight they receive. if we could harvest this excess energy, we could double the efficiency of...

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