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Half as much dark matter as astronomers thought

October 15, 2014
The Milky Way contains half as much dark matter than previously thought according to new research which has weighed the mysterious substance. Providing the precise mass of dark matter in...

Dr Tracy Briggs awarded For Women in Science Fellowship

October 13, 2014
Dr Tracy Briggs was recently awarded one of four UK & Ireland L’Oréal-UNESCO For Women In Science Fellowships to further her research into the understanding of single-gene disorders that lead...

Nobel round-up

October 8, 2014
In case you missed them, here is Laboratory News’ round-up of who won what in this year’s Nobel Prize announcements. Each prize is worth 8 million SEK (£0.7 million), and...

GRAIL visualises man in the Moon

October 8, 2014
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...

Blue LED wins Physics Nobel Prize

October 7, 2014
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...

Happy Birthday CERN!

September 29, 2014
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...

Meteorite points to life on Mars

September 24, 2014
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...

Underestimation of dust threatens BICEP results

September 22, 2014
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...

Cheetah-bot’s successful test run

September 22, 2014
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...

Alice returns results

September 15, 2014
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...

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