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…
KATYAYANI CHOWDHRY | Author/ Freelance Writer We live in a continuum of terror- unleashed by the forces of nature, as tremors shake and stir our lives unrelentlessly. But there is a bigger perspective to all…
Proposed US electron–ion smasher wins endorsement from influential nuclear-science panel. Edwin Cartlidge | nature.com [caption id="attachment_4281" align="alignright" width="630"] Brookhaven National Laboratory/CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York is a potential host for the Electron-Ion…
[caption id="attachment_4278" align="alignnone" width="1024"] Image Credit: NASA[/caption] When you need to test hardware designed to operate in the vast reaches of space, you start in a vacuum chamber. NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland has…
[caption id="attachment_4275" align="alignnone" width="700"] Credit: ESA and the Planck Collaboration[/caption] With blue hues suggestive of marine paradises and a texture evoking the tranquil flow of sea waves, this image might make us daydream of sandy…