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…
[caption id="attachment_724" align="aligncenter" width="673"] The mammoth galaxy cluster Abell 2744 is so massive that its powerful gravity bends the light from galaxies far behind it, making these otherwise unseen background objects appear larger and brighter…
NSF awards $12.5 million to advance the science of sustainability through innovations in computing and communication technologies [caption id="attachment_718" align="aligncenter" width="960"] Intertidal community at low tide in Yachats Bay, Oregon. The picture shows seastars (Pisaster…
[caption id="attachment_710" align="aligncenter" width="700"] Scattering light/ESA[/caption] ESA-- Romania is leading the way in an ambitious project to build an instrument to detect and monitor tiny particles suspended in the air. The new ‘lidar’– the first…
NASA's Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) has provided scientists with five new findings into how the sun’s atmosphere, or corona, is heated far hotter than its surface, what causes the sun’s constant outflow of particles…