Credit: CC0 Public Domain A study in Economic Inquiry uses a novel experimental design to deconstruct the motives behind engaging in cronyism, for example, when a manager hires a friend without prop… [+1899 chars]
November 8, 2020 saw NASAs Juno spacecraft fly through a beam of electrons travelling from GanymedeJupiters largest moon to its auroral footprint on the planet Using data from the spacecrafts payloa… [+4028 chars]
NASA's venerable space telescope has captured a stunning new view of a galaxy with an active black hole obscured by tendrils of dark dust. The spiral galaxy , known as NGC 7172, is located about 11… [+1743 chars]
A team of scientists in Japan captured video of squid camouflaging with their surroundings, much like octopuses and cuttlefish do. Whilesquid in the wild are known to change color, the scientists set… [+3362 chars]
It's dawn on December 25, 2021. Your finger is hovering, shakily, over the ultimate button. You're about to launch a $10-billion space telescope called the James Webb Space Telescope on its journey … [+6301 chars]
There is no longer any doubt that the universe is teeming with planets — NASA recently announced that the total number of known exoplanets has crossed 5,000, and we’ve only just begun our search of t… [+2828 chars]
The development of experimental platforms that advance the field of quantum science and technology (QIST) comes with a unique set of advantages and challenges common to any emergent technology. Resea… [+4669 chars]
April is the cruellest month, wrote TS Eliot in his poem The Waste Land. This is not only because the UK tax year begins this week, but also because the centennial of one of the twentieth centurys mo… [+2173 chars]
Thales - SESO® Optics chosen for high-precision optics polishing on the European Advanced Virgo+ project <ul><li>Thales - SESO® Optics has won a contract from the French National Scientific Research… [+2988 chars]
Fossilised dinosaur tracks uncovered in Spain were left by a theropod with an injured left foot 129 million years ago, a new study has revealed. Researchers from the Autonomous University in Madrid … [+4656 chars]