The first attempted landing on the surface of a comet is a huge landmark in the history of space exploration that will not only uncover further details about comets but could unlock further clues about the origins of our ...
Space Exploration
Nov 12, 2014
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London's diverse ethnic population is the reason for its pupils achieving significantly better GCSE results than the rest of England, according to a new study published today.
Social Sciences
Nov 12, 2014
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This is one of Rosetta's two massive solar wings, keeping ESA's comet-chaser powered out in the cold depths of space, currently some 448 million km from the Sun.
Space Exploration
Nov 12, 2014
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What time is it? The answer, no matter what your initial reference may be—a wristwatch, a smartphone, or an alarm clock—will always trace back to the atomic clock.
General Physics
Nov 12, 2014
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Researchers have demonstrated a new process to convert all biomass into liquid fuel, and the method could make possible mobile processing plants.
Materials Science
Nov 12, 2014
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To help moderate the energy needs of increasingly power-hungry supercomputers, researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have released an application programming interface (API) with the goal of standardizing measurement ...
Hardware
Nov 12, 2014
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After 10 years and four billion miles NASA's Rosetta satellite is poised make space science history tomorrow when it launches its Philae lander onto the surface of the ancient comet, 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.
Space Exploration
Nov 12, 2014
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The prospect of transporting spin information over long distances in graphene, possible because of its small intrinsic spin–orbit coupling and vanishing hyperfine interaction, has stimulated intense research exploring spintronics ...
Nanophysics
Nov 12, 2014
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Increasing nature-based tourism may be one of the keys to saving Australia's endangered wildlife in a time of budget stringency, a new scientific study suggests.
Ecology
Nov 12, 2014
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A new process developed by a team of researchers led by a Virginia Commonwealth University physics professor could bring significant improvements to a technique used to measure the size, charge and shape of water-soluble ...
Nanophysics
Nov 12, 2014
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