IMAGE: CERN, Mars Bioimaging and Axiom Space Geneva. The newly published study Assessment of the socio-economic benefits of CERN activities reports on CERN’s activities over the past 25 years and highlights a range of socio-economic benefits generated by…
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) scientists have used a classic optical phenomenon known as the “Poisson spot” to create stable patterns of light called “optical skyrmions”. Optical skyrmions are tiny, swirling configurations in the properties…
Researchers at Tohoku University’s Department of Geophysics, have been studying the great Tohoku-oki earthquake which occurred on March 11, 2011, to the east of Japan’s Honshu Island (Fig. 1). The earthquake, which registered with a…
Improved design may be used for exploring disaster zones and other dangerous or inaccessible environments. CAMBRIDGE, Mass -- MIT’s Cheetah 3 robot can now leap and gallop across rough terrain, climb a staircase littered with debris,…
The Baltic Sea is home to some of the world’s largest dead zones, areas of oxygen-starved waters where most marine animals can’t survive. But while parts of this sea have long suffered from low oxygen levels,…
We often hear from astronomers and other scientists about 'near-earth asteroids' - lumps of rock and metal that orbit through our Solar System, and pass close enough to our planet to pose an impact…