science
Dark matter becomes less 'ghostly'
Posted in Science on 15th Apr, 2015
by Alex Muller
Dark matter makes up 27% of the known Universe. For the first time, it may have been caught interacting with other dark matter in a cluster 1.4 billion light-years away.
Star's birth glimpsed 'in real time'
Posted in Featured, Science on 7th Apr, 2015
by Alex Muller
Astronomers have witnessed a key stage in the birth of a very heavy star, using two radio telescope views of the process taken 18 years apart.
Researchers may have solved origin-of-life conundrum
Posted in Featured, Science on 19th Mar, 2015
by Alex Muller
The crash of meteors on early Earth likely generated hydrogen cyanide, which could have kick-started the production of molecules needed to make the first cells.
NASA Has Launched a Satellite Mission Into the Magnetosphere
Posted in Hardware on 13th Mar, 2015
by Alex Muller
The Atlas V rocket carries with it four Magnetospheric Multiscale spacecraft that will spend two years studying the magnetic fields between the Earth and the Sun.
Nano Ink That Lets You Draw Sensors Onto Almost Anything
Posted in Hardware on 5th Mar, 2015
by Alex Muller
Nanoengineers are opening the door to an era when anyone will be able to build sensors, anywhere, including physicians in the clinic, patients in their home and soldiers in the field.