A series of events called the Quantum Fringe has enabled everyone from school students and the interested public to ...

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NASA has successfully launched a mission to explore the interactions between the Sun’s and Earth’s magnetic fields. The Tandem Reconnection and Cusp ...

The space scientist Michele Dougherty from Imperial College London has been appointed the next Astronomer Royal – the first ...

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Ultraclean monolayer amorphous carbon can be used to generate high-current, low-scattering proton treatment beams ...

From Bohemian solutions and binary battles to new parameters and novel experiments, the dark matter vs MOND clash rages on ...

New capability could make it easier to generate single pairs of entangled photons on demand using semiconductor quantum dots ...

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Simulations and experiments indicate that the low-density amorphous ice found on comets and icy moons is not, in fact, ...

Writing about women in science remains an important and worthwhile thing to do. That’s the premise that underlies Women in ...

A FEL creates X-rays by the rapid back-and-forth acceleration of fast-moving electron pulses using a series of magnets called an undulator. These X-rays are emitted at a narrow wavelength and then ...