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The answer is in the intergalactic wind

Evoluted New Media | Added: 24 Nov 2014

Astronomers have observed the first direct evidence that an intergalactic “wind” is stripping galax…

Philae finds organics on comet

Evoluted New Media | Added: 19 Nov 2014

Philae detected organic molecules on the surface of comet 67P before it went into hibernation scien…

Philae to start drilling

Evoluted New Media | Added: 14 Nov 2014

Scientists have started drilling into comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko amid fears that the battery a…

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…