As the Dark Energy Survey (DES) releases its final results, we caught up with two physicists who have been involved in the project from its early days.
The study used the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile to image 24 debris discs made of dust, gas and rocks orbiting stars in systems between roughly 10 million and two billion years old.
HR 8799 lies about 133 light years away in the constellation Pegasus and hosts four giant planets, each between five and ten times the mass of Jupiter and orbiting between 15 and 70 astronomical units from their star.
In a laboratory at Aarhus University and at the HUN-REN Atomki facility in Hungary, researchers Sergio Ioppolo and Alfred Thomas Hopkinson reproduced the…
Researchers at the Earth-Life Science Institute (ELSI) at the Institute of Science Tokyo and collaborators investigated how mixed lipid membranes respond to repeated freeze thaw cycles that mimic temperature fluctuations on the early Earth.
An international team led by researchers at the Purple Mountain Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences, has completed a one year observing campaign to better classify these objects.
The study, led by biologists at the Department of Biology and research centers Nordcee and the Danish Center for Hadal Research, focuses on so called marine snow.
Physicists at CERNs Large Hadron Collider are recreating this primordial plasma by smashing together heavy ions at relativistic energies, briefly liberating quarks and gluons so they can probe how the early universe behaved in its first microseconds.
Losurdo and her supervisor, Professor David McKenzie, filled evacuated glass tubes with nitrogen, carbon dioxide and acetylene before applying around 10,000 volts of electrical potential for about an hour.
Cosmic birefringence refers to a small rotation in the polarization direction of the cosmic microwave background, the relic radiation from the Big Bang that preserves information about the early universe.
Gas giants, such as Jupiter and Saturn in our own solar system, are large planets made mostly of helium and/or hydrogen around a dense core, but they have a bit of an identity crisis.
The Hubble tension arises because two precise approaches to determining the Hubble constant give significantly different results, despite drawing on high quality data.
Despite decades of monitoring across radio, optical, and infrared bands, no technosignature has been confirmed, a result often attributed to the fact that only a small fraction of the Galaxy has been explored so far.
In work published in Nature Catalysis, the researchers demonstrate that the bacterium Escherichia coli can be engineered to produce new-to-nature molecules in vivo using light-driven enzymatic reactions.
A team from the Laboratory of Atmospheric and Planetary Physics (LPAP) at the University of Liege has used NASA's Juno spacecraft to resolve, for the first…
The flip side of the gold rush surrounding AI is the risk of job disruption, online abuse and the heavy electricity consumption of data centres.
