Physics News

Better way to beat bugs

Scientists have developed a neural network which has discovered a clutch of new insect repellent molecules, many of them more powerful than DEET, the World's current gold standard....

Supernova is the star of the show

Scientists in the US, writing in this week's Nature, have caught the first glimpse of a star blowing itself to pieces.  Princeton researcher Alicia Soderberg and her colleague...

Hot springs eternal, on Mars

A broken wheel could have uncovered the best prospects yet for finding life on Mars, say scientists this week. ...

Missing Matter Caught in the ‘Cosmic Web’

There seems to be matter missing in the universe, but astronomers at the university of Colorado now say they have definitively found about half of the matter, trapped in a ‘cosmic ...

Hopper-bot reaches parts that other robots can’t reach!

A new design of ‘jumping’ robot could get to places that conventional wheeled, tracked or walking robots can’t reach. ...

Plasmas in your mouth

Many people dread the sound of the dentist's drill, part of the reason that it has to be used so much is that the dentist has to be absolutely sure that they have got rid of all th...

A fuel station in your garage

The rush towards biofuels to run your car on keeps going even if the mathematics behind it are possibly dubious. Now an American company has built an ethanol generation system for ...

Best tool to find explosives? Mine's a mongoose!

Engineers in Sri Lanka have come up with a cheap but effective way to locate landmines - a mongoose tethered to a robot! ...

The web sees evolution on the fly

A US developer has come up with a way for webpages to evolve how they look to make them more user-friendly. ...

Atom-Thick Transistors

Scientists have made the world’s thinnest ever transistors – the devices that switch current on and off in all electronic equipment.  At their very smallest, the new transisto...