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Kepler mission discovers an Earth-like planet

July 27, 2015
NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope has confirmed the first near-Earth-sized planet orbiting another star like our Sun. NASA scientists suggest the newly discovered planet – named Kepler-452b – is 60% larger...

Nanoscale forces solve puddle problem

July 23, 2015
Scientists have discovered that the forces responsible for stopping a liquid from spreading on a solid surface only act at the nanoscale. A research team at the Massachusetts Institute of...

World’s oldest scientific prize awarded to Peter Higgs

July 20, 2015
The Royal Society’s Copley Medal – the world’s oldest scientific prize – has been awarded to Professor Peter Higgs for his contribution to particle physics. Professor Higgs received the award...

Big leap into Neptune’s magnetic field

July 17, 2015
By combining 26-year old data with supercomputer simulations, scientists have modelled Neptune’s magnetic field in detail. Astronomers at Imperial College London used the data from Voyager 2 and discovered that...

Pluto’s ice secrets revealed

July 16, 2015
Images from NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft have revealed an abundance of methane ice on Pluto. Mission scientists studied infrared spectral images of Pluto taken by the Ralph instrument on board...

NASA’s probe reaches Pluto

July 15, 2015
After more than nine years and a 3 billion mile journey, NASA’s New Horizon mission spacecraft has made its closest approach to Pluto. The probe captured the most detailed images...

New particle discovered at the LHC

July 15, 2015
Physicists at CERN have discovered a new class of particles known as pentaquarks. A research team at the LHCb experiment at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider examined the decay of a...

New Director for ESA

July 15, 2015
Johann-Dietrich Woerner is the new Director General of The European Space Agency (ESA). Mr Woerner – former chief of the Executive Board of the German Aerospace Center – has taken...

Eduardo Miranda and musical slime mould

July 15, 2015
A musical ‘duet’ between slime mould and a scientist creates beautiful and unusual sounds. Professor Eduardo Miranda at Plymouth University, a composer working at the crossroads of music and science,...

Top physics prize awarded to Professor Yablonovitch

July 7, 2015
The Institute of Physics has awarded its’ highest International award – the Isaac Newton Medal and Prize – to Professor Eli Yablonovitch for his work on photonic crystals. Professor Yablonovitch...

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