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Titan’s ocean as salty as Dead Sea

July 4, 2014
NASA scientists have firm evidence that the ocean inside Titan, Saturn’s largest moon, might be as salty as the Dead Sea on Earth. Over the last decade, the Space Agency’s...

Spectral rule to measure stars

July 1, 2014
Astronomers have developed a spectral ruler as a means of measuring stars. It is the first standardised set of measurement guidelines for analysing and cataloguing stars: there was previously no...

Supernova explosions recreated in the lab

June 12, 2014
A scaled supernova explosion has been recreated in the laboratory using lasers 60,000 billion times more powerful than laser pointers. An international team of researchers used the Vulcan laser at...

Mega-Earth found in Kepler-10c

June 6, 2014
The ‘Godzilla of Earths’ has been discovered by astronomers; the new type of planet is a mega-Earth; a rocky world weighing 17 times as much as Earth. It was believed...

Aerospace company set to communicate with NASA spacecraft

June 4, 2014
Aerospace company SkyCorp Inc have been given the go ahead to attempt to communicate with a 35-year-old NASA spacecraft. International Sun-Earth Explorer-3 (ISEE-3) was launched in 1978 to study the...

Celebrating Great British Science

June 3, 2014
Frank James, Professor of the History of Science at the Royal Institution, has nominated Faraday’s electro-magnetic induction ring as his Great British Scientific breakthroughAfter about ten years of searching Michael...

SMRs to improve nuclear power safety

May 21, 2014
New research from the University of Lincoln suggests a new, smaller type of nuclear reactor might be a suitable candidate to meet the world’s growing demand for energy, while simultaneously...

New understanding of gamma-ray bursts

May 15, 2014
New observations suggest that gamma-ray bursts behave differently than previously thought. Theories predicted that light from the afterglow of a gamma-ray burst (GRB) would only be polarised linearly and not...

Ancient Mercury’s volcanic past

April 25, 2014
Volcanoes exploded on Mercury for a large proportion of the planet’s history according to detailed data from Messenger. The spacecraft’s first fly-bys of Mercury in 2008 pointed to its explosive...

Greater London population at risk of future heat waves

April 23, 2014
Properly adapting buildings for climate change could significantly reduce the risk of heat-related deaths say researchers who have modelled the effects of future heat waves on the Greater London population...

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