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Big leap into Neptune’s magnetic field

July 17, 2015
By combining 26-year old data with supercomputer simulations, scientists have modelled Neptune’s magnetic field in detail. Astronomers at Imperial College London used the data from Voyager 2 and discovered that...

Pluto’s ice secrets revealed

July 16, 2015
Images from NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft have revealed an abundance of methane ice on Pluto. Mission scientists studied infrared spectral images of Pluto taken by the Ralph instrument on board...

NASA’s probe reaches Pluto

July 15, 2015
After more than nine years and a 3 billion mile journey, NASA’s New Horizon mission spacecraft has made its closest approach to Pluto. The probe captured the most detailed images...

New particle discovered at the LHC

July 15, 2015
Physicists at CERN have discovered a new class of particles known as pentaquarks. A research team at the LHCb experiment at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider examined the decay of a...

New Director for ESA

July 15, 2015
Johann-Dietrich Woerner is the new Director General of The European Space Agency (ESA). Mr Woerner – former chief of the Executive Board of the German Aerospace Center – has taken...

Eduardo Miranda and musical slime mould

July 15, 2015
A musical ‘duet’ between slime mould and a scientist creates beautiful and unusual sounds. Professor Eduardo Miranda at Plymouth University, a composer working at the crossroads of music and science,...

NOEMA observatory

July 13, 2015
European scientists have discovered a previously unknown region of extreme star formation in the 'Medusa merger' a luminous collision of two galaxies at more than 100 million light years from...

Top physics prize awarded to Professor Yablonovitch

July 7, 2015
The Institute of Physics has awarded its’ highest International award – the Isaac Newton Medal and Prize – to Professor Eli Yablonovitch for his work on photonic crystals. Professor Yablonovitch...

Spiral Planetary Nebula

June 26, 2015
The strange S-shape that gives the Spiral Planetary Nebula its common name is seen clearly in this composite image.

Elusive magnetospheric plasma tubes finally recorded

June 26, 2015
After 60 years of research, astronomers have finally observed structures of plasma – one of the four fundamental states of matter – in the magnetosphere. Scientists at the University of...

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