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What can we learn from huge surveys of the sky?
The surfaces of asteroids may be so unstable, that any attempt to land on one might cause long-distance avalanches of...
The Dark Energy Survey has found 200 candidate supernovae at great distances, providing a test for dark energy.
The Dark Energy Survey has found 200 candidate supernovae at great distances, providing a test for dark energy.
Can gravitational lenses make distant quasars appear significantly brighter and easier to detect?
Can gravitational lenses make distant quasars appear significantly brighter and easier to detect?
Naked Scientist Dominic Ford hopped on a train to find out how LED technology is being commercialised in the UK's...
The UK has a potential wealth of tidal energy, as Richard Hollingham discovered at Liverpool's Albert Docks...
How turtles mate, and the prospects for sub-sea energy generation.
Dr Jonathan Shanklin may be better known as one of the men who discovered the hole in the ozone layer. So why the...
This month Asteroid 2012 DA14 a 130.000 Ton lump of rock will pass just 24,000 km from Earth. That’s closer than many...
A number of enterprising individuals are developing ways to harvest and mine asteroids for the minerals that they may...
How did the solar system, from massive gas planets like Jupiter down to tiny asteroids, form? New computer modelling...
We find out how microphones capture sound by asking Naked Scientist Dave Ansell if he could build one from scratch, and...
What can neutrons tell us? And how can you study them? Martyn Bull takes Naked Scientist Ben Valsler on a tour of...
The ISIS neutron source is used by a wide range of researchers to understand the properties of materials, and find out...
Stand Up Maths and the Festival of the Spoken Nerd