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We are on the comet
Evoluted New Media | Added: 12 Nov 2014
Philae has now stabilised on comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko after landing not once; not twice but…
Countdown to Rosetta’s comet landing
Evoluted New Media | Added: 7 Nov 2014
The Rosetta space mission will attempt the first ever landing on the surface of a comet on 12th Nov…
First female Director General for CERN
Evoluted New Media | Added: 4 Nov 2014
CERN have appointed Italian physicist Dr Fabiola Gianotti as their next Director General, the first…
Cooling with magnets
Evoluted New Media | Added: 4 Nov 2014
An international team of scientists have successfully used magnetic molecules to reach temperatures…
Half as much dark matter as astronomers thought
Evoluted New Media | Added: 15 Oct 2014
The Milky Way contains half as much dark matter than previously thought according to new research w…
Nobel round-up
Evoluted New Media | Added: 8 Oct 2014
In case you missed them, here is Laboratory News’ round-up of who won what in this year’s Nobel Pri…
GRAIL visualises man in the Moon
Evoluted New Media | Added: 8 Oct 2014
The Procellarum, a recess on the western edge of the moon, likely arose from a large plume of magma…
Blue LED wins Physics Nobel Prize
Evoluted New Media | Added: 7 Oct 2014
The invention of the blue light-emitting diodes has scooped this year’s Nobel Prize in Physics.!--m…
Happy Birthday CERN!
Evoluted New Media | Added: 29 Sep 2014
Today marks 60 years since the 12 founding member states ratified the CERN convention and the Europ…
Meteorite points to life on Mars
Evoluted New Media | Added: 24 Sep 2014
A tiny fragment of Martian meteorite has added to the growing body of evidence that the red plant m…
Underestimation of dust threatens BICEP results
Evoluted New Media | Added: 22 Sep 2014
Spinning dust grains have put a dampener on the celebrations that cosmologists have found faint sig…
Alice returns results
Evoluted New Media | Added: 15 Sep 2014
Alice, the miniature ultra-violet imaging spectrograph aboard the Rosetta orbiter, has successfully…
Galaxy forming stars at ferocious rate
Evoluted New Media | Added: 5 Sep 2014
A galaxy giving birth to new stars at a ferocious rate has been spotted by NASA astronomers.!--more…
Lithium problem solved…almost
Evoluted New Media | Added: 4 Sep 2014
Lithium has proved to be a stubborn problem for astrophysicists; the quantities predicted to have r…
Van der Waals prevents asteroid spinning apart
Evoluted New Media | Added: 27 Aug 2014
A near-Earth asteroid rotates so quickly that it defies gravity and is held together by van der Waa…
New string theory explains guitarists’ sounds
Evoluted New Media | Added: 7 Aug 2014
A University of Oxford scientist has developed a new string theory in which he describes how the te…
Rosetta catches up to comet 67P
Evoluted New Media | Added: 6 Aug 2014
Comet-chaser Rosetta has completed its decade-long journey and finally met up with comet 67P.!--mor…
Voyager may not be in interstellar space
Evoluted New Media | Added: 4 Aug 2014
In 2012, Voyager 1 crossed into interstellar space, but it might not have reached this historic mil…
Titan’s ocean as salty as Dead Sea
Evoluted New Media | Added: 4 Jul 2014
NASA scientists have firm evidence that the ocean inside Titan, Saturn’s largest moon, might be as …
Spectral rule to measure stars
Evoluted New Media | Added: 1 Jul 2014
Astronomers have developed a spectral ruler as a means of measuring stars.!--more-- It is the firs…
