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Rosetta successfully revived

January 21, 2014
Comet-chaser Rosetta has successfully been revived from its 31 month slumber; its pre-programmed alarm clock went off early on 20th January and it signalled Earth to let scientists know it...

Ground breaking European missions to probe early universe

January 6, 2014
The ESA has announced their next two L-class missions; one to study galaxy and black hole formation, and one to establish a gravitational wave observatory.The so called Large, or L-class,...

Why the kettle whistles

December 9, 2013
For more than 100 years, scientists have been puzzled as to why a kettle on the stove whistles – what is the physical source of the noise and the specific...

The planet that ‘shouldn’t exist’

December 4, 2013
Astronomers have weighed an Earth-sized planet orbiting another star and concluded that it shouldn’t exist.The results from two independent teams published in Nature confirm Kepler-78b as the first known Earth-sized...

Fluid frenzy at MIT

November 13, 2013
In separate studies, two groups of researchers from Massachusetts Institute of Technology have been probing the properties of fluid droplets.Firstly, researchers unexpectedly discovered water droplets that form on a superhydrophobic...

Science Nobels awarded

November 6, 2013
This year’s sciences Nobel Prizes were shared between eight scientists with discoveries ranging from how cells organise their transport systems to complex chemical systems and, perhaps unsurprisingly, to the proposers...

Ultra-compact dwarf galaxy discovered

November 1, 2013
An ultra-compact dwarf galaxy with a density of stars 15,000 times greater than the Milky Way has been discovered by astronomers from Michigan State University.The galaxy – dubbed M60-UCD1 –...

Microfluidics competition

October 2, 2013
Could you design the next generation of microfluidics equipment – then Dolomite need you!The Productizing Science Competition – now in its second year – is looking for innovative microfluidics concepts...

Magellanic Stream mystery solved by Hubble telescope

September 16, 2013
A 40-year old mystery has been solved by astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. They have uncovered the origin of the Magellanic Stream, a long ribbon of gas stretching nearly...

Organic solar cells in a spin

September 13, 2013
Manipulating the ‘spin’ of electrons in organic solar cells can drastically improve their performance, say researchers from Cambridge and Washington. Their findings may have implications in cheap, high performing solar...

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