Physics News

Diamonds Used to Probe Fundamentals of the Universe

One of the major ways of finding out about the universe is to smash particles together and look at what particles leave the collision.  To do this amongst other things, such a...

Can You Do Better Than NASA?

Ever thought you could do a better job than NASA?  Well Peter Homer from Maine, in the US, did and he scooped a two-hundred-thousand dollar prize for his efforts....

NASA’s flying telescope

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New planet discovered

In the constellation Libra, 20.5 light years away there is a star we call Gliese 581. This is a small rather dim star which astronomers have been studying for several years, and ha...

Protein for plant “petrol”

As it looks like we’ll be running out of oil in the not-too-distant future, scientists have been hunting for an alternative to fossil fuels for use in cars and other vehicles. ...

Almost perfect anti-reflection coating

If you are making a camera, telescope, solar cell or microscope, you don't want light being wasted by reflections or even more critically if you are in the military you don't want ...

Canny birds in Chernobyl

Birds around Chernobyl seem to be avoiding radioactive nests. Anders Møller from the Marie Curie University in Paris and Tim Mosseau in South Carolina have been studying the birds ...

Attractive way to pinpoint cells

US researchers have found a way to non-invasively track the movements of cells around the body, a discovery which could help scientists to better understand how some cancers spread...

Huge amounts of Ice found on Mars

The European spacecraft Mars Express arrived in Mars orbit in december 2003 to study the planet. It included a giant radar called MARSIS which was designed to look below Mars' surf...

Putting the brakes on car accidents

Canadian researchers have come up with a way to make the roads safer, with a revolution in brake-light design. University of Toronto researchers Zhonghai Li and Paul Milgram realis...