Physics News

A New Catalyst Fuels Optimism For Energy Supplies

US researchers at Rutgers University in New Jersey have come up with a catalyst combo that might help to safeguard fuel supplies into the future. Alan Goldm...

The Three Phases of Mars

The European Space Agency's Mars Express spacecraft has found three distinct phases in Mars' history. The orbiting satellite has used infra-red light to ide...

Wearable Boredom Detector

Researchers at the Massachusetts Insitute of Technology (MIT) Media Lab are developing a mobile boredom detector designed to clip onto a pair of glasses and...

Saturn's Lop-sided Satellite

An underground ocean may have caused one of Saturn's moons, Enceladus, to topple over by destabilising its spin. Using data from the Cassini spacecraft, Rob...

Flexible Flight

Researchers at MIT have found a way to take the drag out of flying, at least for the wings if not the passengers. Aeroplanes are currently controlled by win...

The New Planet That's Bigger Than Pluto

Measurements of the size of a possible new planet by the astronomer Bertoldi from the University of Bonn in Germany along with co investigators have shown t...

The Think-jet Printer

Scientists invent a way to 'print' live brain cells - Reconstruction and replacement of defective body parts may have moved a step closer this week thanks t...

Cracking The Surface of Mars

Phil Christienson of Arizona State University has designed a new spacecraft in the running to be launched to Mars to search for water ice concealed below th...

Stardust Mission Makes it Safely Back To Earth

Space missions are fraught with potential disasters. In 2004, the Genesis mission crashed back down to earth, raising fears that its cargo of precious parti...

Dent your Pride But Not your Car

Japanse car giant Nissan are set to launch the perfect product for careless drivers, a paint that automatically repairs minor scrapes and scratches. The pai...