Insights

The mosaic of the Caloris basin, Mercury

June 8, 2015
This mosaic of the Caloris basin (main image) on the surface of the planet is an enhanced colour composite overlain on a monochrome mosaic.

Calbuco volcano in Chile

June 5, 2015
The volcano Calbuco – one of the most active volcanoes in Chile – erupted twice in a few hours on 22 April leading to the evacuation of 4,000 residents within...

Stats on the ATLAS experiment

June 4, 2015
In Big, bold and complex… we find out just how hard it is to handle the big data from the ATLAS detector at CERN. Here are some stats on the ATLAS experiment...

We are living in the golden age of big data.

June 1, 2015
We are, I hardly need point out, living in a golden age of big data. It is completely changing the way most science is done; indeed some science can only...

Here are some diamond stats

May 29, 2015
A girl's best friend they may be - but now computer scientists want a bit of bling. The colour centres in that famous carbon lattice could well make the ideal...

Musical mould makes miserabilists mirthful

May 28, 2015
As the occupants of the Science Lite desk segue gently into middle-age, there aren’t many occasions where we all look at each other and say “so, that gig last night…Aaaamazing...

Unleash your chemical Gollum

May 28, 2015
My lab is currently undergoing a Health and Safety (H&S) upgrade

Hiding in plain sight

May 28, 2015
What was the fate of the compact massive galaxies that populated the early Universe? This has been one of the biggest open questions in astronomy over the last decade. Giulia...

Capturing elusive anti-atoms

May 28, 2015
For the first time, scientists at CERN have measured the charge of an anti-atom to high precision. Dr William Bertsche, part of the ALPHA collaboration, tells us more. What is...

Are we living through the seventh mass extinction event?

May 28, 2015
Mass extinctions…they are a bit like buses. You wait an epoch for one, then two come along at once. Over the past 540 million years there have been five periods...

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