Most asteroids are innocuous. But a frightful few of these leftovers from the Solar Systems formation are planet killers. The nightmarish possibilities of a collision with Earth motivate space age… [+4082 chars]
Using ESA's XMM-Newton and NASA's Swift space telescopes, an international team of astronomers have observed a nearby galaxy known as NGC 55. They discovered a new transient ultraluminous X-ray sourc… [+3089 chars]
Urothelial carcinoma (UC) is one of the most common malignancies genitourinary cancers, including upper tract urothelial carcinoma (UTUC) and urothelial carcinoma of the bladder (UCB). UTUC is more … [+2678 chars]
A dense, collapsed star spinning 707 times per secondmaking it one of the fastest spinning neutron stars in the Milky Way galaxyhas shredded and consumed nearly the entire mass of its stellar compani… [+8772 chars]
The IAU Office for Astronomy Outreach (OAO), and its partners, Stars Shine for Everyone (Sterren Schitteren voor Iedereen, SSVI) and the University of Leiden, have announced the awardees of the 2022 … [+2187 chars]
An international team of scientists has released the updated and improved estimations of Potential Evapotranspiration and an Aridity Index for the entire world based upon a fully parameterized geospa… [+2981 chars]
The Japanese Secessionist Army or JSA for short are what got me into Infinity. The release of their brand new Army Pack in 2018 as the JSA threw off the reigns of their Yu Jing masters and made them … [+9603 chars]
Taken from the July 2022 issue of Physics World. Members of the Institute of Physics can enjoy the full issue via the Physics World app. Helen Edwards was a formidable force in the field of accelera… [+17823 chars]
Founded in 2019, Epic emerged from stealth mode by announcing the Series A earlier this month. Epic has developed the Gene Expression Modulation System (GEMS) platform, designed to dial gene expressi… [+272 chars]
Does anybody remember GLASS-z13? No? It was spotted by the James Webb Space Telescope and championed as the "oldest galaxy ever seen" and it was announced... six days ago. Yes, that's right. Not ev… [+4762 chars]
Since yesterday and until tomorrow, JWST is busy with an exciting series of observations as part of the CECILIA project. It is looking at some ancient galaxies to detail their chemical composition. T… [+2655 chars]
,Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization (MPI-DS) in Göttingen, Germany, and Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands, have developed a new theoretical met… [+4750 chars]
