Jonathan AmosScience correspondent@BBCAmoson Twitter Image caption, Uranus, photographed here by the Hubble Space Telescope, has at least 13 rings and numerous moons The US space agency Nasa should… [+4785 chars]
Scientists have long wondered how Jupiter's innermost moon, Io, has meandering ridges as grand as any that can be seen in movies like "Dune." Now, a Rutgers research study has provided a new explanat… [+3330 chars]
The Lyrid meteor shower peaks this week, offering a possible opportunity to see a dozen or so meteors an hour streaking across the night sky. The Lyrids occur each year when Earth's orbit takes it … [+4180 chars]
The CMS collaboration at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has performed the most accurate ever measurement of the mass of the top quarkthe heaviest known elementary particle. The latest CMS result est… [+3234 chars]
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Rydberg polaritons switch continually from light to matter and back again. In Rydberg polaritons, light and matter are like two sides of a coin, and the matter side is what makes polaritons interact … [+1585 chars]
Scientists have long wondered how Jupiter's innermost moon, Io, has meandering ridges as grand as any that can be seen in movies like "Dune." Now, a Rutgers research study has provided a new explanat… [+3330 chars]
Because of its outstanding transparency as well as its stability in contact with heat or chemicals, glass is relevant for many high-tech applications. However, conventional processes for shaping glas… [+4008 chars]
Utrecht researchers have developed a new type of sensor, about 500 times smaller than the width of a human hair, with an unprecedented ability to detect extremely small amounts of molecules. These se… [+3556 chars]
Fossil trilobites. getty Five hundred million years ago, the oceans teemed with trillions of trilobites - an extinct group of marine arthropods ruling the seas for more than 270 million years. Over… [+2410 chars]
Research Box Title NASA is celebrating the Hubble Space Telescope's 32nd birthday with a stunning look at an unusual close-knit collection of five galaxies, called The Hickson Compact Group 40. Th… [+4107 chars]
An all-sky camera system captured a very unusual fireball, which is estimated to have landed near the eastern shore of Lake Simcoe in southern Ontario. Usually, when a fireball is spotted, most peop… [+2603 chars]
