The socio-economic effects of climate change often do not receive enough attention. At the EuroScience Open Forum (ESOF) a group of researchers will provide more insight. How does climate change affe… [+3262 chars]
The Perseverance rover has begun exploring a region that looks a little like Monument Valley in Arizona and Utah in the US, or perhaps like a set on an old sci-fi movie. The rock formations in this a… [+4534 chars]
ByUniversity of AmsterdamJune 16, 2022 University of Amsterdam physicists build an atom laser that can stay on forever. Credit: UvA These days, imagining our everyday life without lasers is difficu… [+7083 chars]
Jun 16 2022Reviewed by Alex Smith Ultrafast light-driven magnetization control on a nanometer length scale is critical for achieving competitive bit sizes in next-generation information encoded tech… [+5020 chars]
These improved Herschel images show us that the dust ecosystems in these galaxies are very dynamic, said Christopher Clark, an astronomer at the Space Science Telescope Institute in Maryland, who led… [+1323 chars]
The European Space Agency’s Gaia space observatory has made a startling discovery. While studying the stars throughout the Milky Way, Gaia observed several fire-like tsunamis across multiple stars. S… [+2508 chars]
450 million years ago, the Earth was going through a rough time—the planet cooled down dramatically, leading to a glaciation, and soon the planet was seeing one of the most dramatic mass extinctions … [+1539 chars]
IceCube is an example of how big science, and particularly particle physics, now often works on generational time scales. Getting from the idea of IceCube to actually drilling its neutrino sensors in… [+3064 chars]
As recently as the 1970s, pregnancy testing involved sending pee away to be injected into a live frog. Alex Casey explores a strange, amphibian chapter in our medical history. We take the luxuries o… [+6864 chars]
Newswise — LEXINGTON, Ky. (June 16, 2022) — Arnab Sarkar, a graduate student in the University of Kentucky Department of Physics and Astronomy, will reveal data and images that — for the first time —… [+3743 chars]
Scientists from the University of Tsukuba demonstrated how ultrafast spectroscopy can be used to improve the temporal resolution of quantum sensors. By measuring the orientation of coherent spins ins… [+3174 chars]
While examining a stellar nursery, astronomers found something peculiar: a binary star system that may have formed when a wandering star fell into the gravity of its partner. The stellar nursery L48… [+2092 chars]
