Imagine a road with two lanes in each direction. One lane is for slow cars, and the other is for fast ones. For electrons moving along a quantum wire, researchers in Cambridge and Frankfurt have disc… [+4965 chars]
When massive stars die, they don't do so quietly. Their deaths are spectacularly brilliant affairs that light up the cosmos, a supernova explosion that sends star guts punching out into space in a c… [+3923 chars]
The Royal Museums at Greenwich (opens in new tab), London, are a mine of information about this and other lunar topics. Royal Museums Greenwich comprises the Royal Observatory, Cutty Sark, National… [+2153 chars]
<li>Misra, A. K. et al. Compact color biofinder (CoCoBi): Fast, standoff, sensitive detection of biomolecules and polyaromatic hydrocarbons for the detection of life. Appl. Spectrosc.75, 14271436. ht… [+12414 chars]
Enlarge/ Artist's conception of a magnetar. 25 with 21 posters participating If you think black holes are the scariest things in the Universe, I have something to share with you. There are balls o… [+3925 chars]
A research team led by Prof. Qian Shengbang and Ph.D. student Li Fuxing from the Yunnan Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has found that the formation and evolution of the massive bina… [+4167 chars]
The space bubbles concept is based on the work of Roger Angel, who in 2006 proposed placing thin reflective films in orbit around the Earth. The MIT concept develops that idea by making it easily dep… [+666 chars]
An artist's impression of Comet Interceptor, which is due to launch in 2028 and will wait for its target for up to six years.Credit: Geraint Jones, UCL Mullard Space Science Laboratory The European … [+5455 chars]
Italian astrophysicist Margherita Hack smiling at home where she keeps over twenty thousand books. ... [+] Trieste, 21st June 2012. (Photo by Massimo Sestini/Mondadori via Getty Images) Mondadori vi… [+2201 chars]
Have you ever seen wispy arcs and rings in astronomical images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope and other observatories? These unusual features are caused by a quirk of nature called gravitational… [+7697 chars]
Sea ice provides a hunting platform for polar bears all around the Arctic. Polar bears are rushing to find ice to hunt on as the world heats due to human-caused climate change and Arctic sea ice disa… [+2241 chars]
The human middle earwhich houses three tiny, vibrating bonesis key to transporting sound vibrations into the inner ear, where they become nerve impulses that allow us to hear. Embryonic and fossil e… [+4050 chars]
