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The extreme science of ‘White Mars’

November 2, 2015
In one of the coldest, most isolated and remote places on Earth, a multicultural crew of 13 perform challenging research in a wide variety of fields and maintain the Italian-French...

Veil Nebula

November 2, 2015
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured a small section of the debris of one of the best-known supernova remnants – Veil Nebula – in stunning detail.

LHC produces ‘littlest liquid’

October 13, 2015
Quark-gluon plasma – a state of matter thought to have existed right at the birth of the Universe – has been produced with fewer particles than previously thought possible.

Stellar mosaic shows close relation with our galactic neighbour

October 8, 2015
Astronomers have found similarities between new-born stars in our galaxy and a neighbouring one.

Neutrino oscillations discovery wins Noble Prize

October 6, 2015
Takaaki Kajita and Arthur McDonald's discovery of neutrino oscillations, which shows that neutrino particles have mass, has scooped this year’s Nobel Prize in Physics.

Comet Lovejoy

September 30, 2015
Comet Lovejoy sails through the solar system in a green haze leaving cometary dust in its wake.

What’s the next step for Mars exploration?

September 29, 2015
Following yesterday’s announcement linking dark streaks on the surface of Mars with liquid water, scientists have spoken about the future of Mars exploration. There will be a number of missions...

NASA confirms that liquid water flows on today’s Mars

September 28, 2015
New findings from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) provide the strongest evidence yet that liquid water flows intermittently on present-day Mars.

Dark matter distribution mapped

September 24, 2015
New images reveal the amount of dark matter in the Universe and its distribution in distant galaxies. Astronomers led by Leiden University in the Netherlands used images captured by the...

Mind on matter – Mark Miodownik speaks up for Materials Science

September 14, 2015
Professor Mark Miodownik, Materials Scientist, Engineer and Broadcaster tells us about his current work and why we should love our material world You’ve recently published a paper on material stimuli...

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