Taken from the August 2022 issue of Physics World. Members of the Institute of Physics can enjoy the full issue via the Physics World app. Whether youre sunbathing by the sea on a beach holiday, sip… [+3993 chars]
We have a pretty good idea of what lurks within our solar system. We know there isn't a Mars-sized planet orbiting between Jupiter and Saturn, nor a brown dwarf nemesis heading our way. Anything larg… [+3285 chars]
US space agency NASA has warned that the Sun is expected to release more frequent horrific solar flares in the near future as it nears the peak of its 11-year cycle called the solar maximum. Solar … [+1684 chars]
Image shows the 48,000-light-year-long stretch of the Andromeda galaxy. American space agency NASA on Sunday shared the "largest-ever" image assembled of the Andromeda galaxy by the Hubble Space Tel… [+1904 chars]
In a study published in the journal Genome Research, investigators in UC San Diego's Department of Computer Science and Engineering and Johns Hopkins University have illuminated the immunoglobulin (a… [+3768 chars]
Title:ADDGALS: Simulated Sky Catalogs for Wide Field Galaxy Surveys Authors: Risa H. Wechsler, Joseph DeRose, Michael T. Busha, et al. First Authors Institution: Department of Physics, Stanford Un… [+7062 chars]
Whales sing, shrimp snap, and toadfish hum. But the stingray? Until recently, scientists believed the flat fish to be quiet as a pancake. Now, a study has broken that silence. Videos reveal that two… [+5166 chars]
Bacteria and other unicellular organisms developed sophisticated ways to actively navigate their way, despite being comparably simple structures. To reveal these mechanisms, researchers from the Max … [+3968 chars]
Source: Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets The ice giants, Uranus and Neptune, are the least understood planets in the solar system. They remain the only worlds that an orbital spacecraft has … [+2751 chars]
<li>Carrigan, C.R., Sun, Y., Hunter, S.L, Ruddle, D.G., Wagoner, J.L., Myers, K.B.L., Emer, D.F., Drellack, S.L. & Chipman, V.D. Delayed signatures of underground nuclear explosions. Sci. Rep.6, … [+12504 chars]
Sabina Raducan has the kind of job youd expect the protagonist in a 1990s Michael Bay movie to hold. In The Rock, Nicolas Cages Dr. Stanley Goodspeed is an FBI chemical weapons specialist who helps s… [+8576 chars]
Looking out of his backyard in the Canadian town of Strathmore, amateur astronomer and photographer Alan Dyer saw an unfamiliar sight dancing in the night sky: rippling arcs of reddish-pink aurora bo… [+2661 chars]
