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18 May 2011
Earlier this month, a major conference was held at the Geological Society in London to discuss something that will not...
08 May 2011
Two predictions made from general relativity in 1918 have been finally tested...
08 May 2011
Researchers at CERN have managed to trap anti-hydrogen atoms for longer than ever before...
28 April 2011
At just one centimetre across, the box jellyfish makes a poor contender for being a paragon of intellect. But now new...
10 April 2011
Flaps on wind turbines may make wind power more economic
03 April 2011
A strange anomaly in the movement of the Pioneer probes may have been explained
03 April 2011
Fridges that are powered by heat are being improved
06 March 2011
With a breakthrough that could hasten the arrival of a new generation of even more powerful microprocessors, scientists...
13 February 2011
High temperature cables can save weight and energy, but the problem is they are brittle, and difficult to get around...
13 February 2011
This week scientists from China have identified an environmentally-friendly way of making acrylic acid. Typically,...
25 January 2011
Does Jupiter protect Earth from asteroid impact? A new study evaluates the myth that the giant planet acts as our...
14 January 2011
Photons that can be stored and emitted from a crystal could be the next step in realising quantum communication. It...
19 December 2010
Gamma Ray Bursts are some of the most energetic events in the universe - but only around half of them are associated...
19 December 2010
A new instrument aboard the SWIFT orbiting telescope has shed new light on the cause of "dark" gamma ray...
12 December 2010
A new extra high density ultracapacitor has been built with a similar energy density to batteries.
12 December 2010
Saturn’s rings may have originated from a satellite that was stripped of its surface ice when it moved perilously close...
28 November 2010
A Bose-Einstein condensate of photons has been produced that works at room temperature.
25 November 2010
Spectral analysis has confirmed the sighting of the most distant galaxy ever seen, at a red shift of z=8.6...
25 November 2010
Scientists at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider have been colliding lead ions - allowing us to get an idea of conditions in...
14 November 2010
We’ve been living alongside cats for thousands of years but it’s taken until now to fully understand how they perform...
14 November 2010
As any parents, aunties or uncles know full well, kids get much more tired out simply walking around than adults do,...
24 October 2010
A team of astronomers have successfully looked back about 13 billion years to pinpoint one of the first galaxies to...
17 October 2010
Research is discovering cheaper alternatives to gold plated connectors...
03 October 2010
The best way of making solar electricity cheaper is to get more electricity per square metre of panel. Now researchers...