News articles tagged with 'space'
Microscopic worms could hold the key to living life on Mars
— 2 Dec 2011 10:26 | BiologyThe astrophysicist Stephen Hawking believes that if humanity is to survive we will have up sticks and colonise space. But is the human body up to the challenge?…
NASA's Hubble confirms that galaxies are the ultimate recyclers
— 18 Nov 2011 17:09 | AstronomyNew observations by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope are expanding astronomers' understanding of the ways in which galaxies continuously recycle immense volumes of hydrogen gas and heavy…
Frozen comet had a watery past, University of Arizona scientists find
— 6 Apr 2011 15:46 | AstronomyFor the first time, scientists have found convincing evidence for the presence of liquid water in a comet, shattering the current paradigm that comets never get warm enough to melt…
New laser technology prepares to revolutionise communications
— 29 Mar 2011 16:37 | TechnologyAs fibre optic technology continues to advance, it faces challenges from both its physical properties and its use of infrastructure. One emerging high-speed solution being developed…
Is space like a chessboard?
— 19 Mar 2011 14:14 | PhysicsPhysicists at UCLA set out to design a better transistor and ended up discovering a new way to think about the structure of space…
MESSENGER spacecraft to swing into orbit around Mercury
— 15 Mar 2011 21:20 | AstronomyAt 8:45 p.m. EDT on March 17, the MESSENGER spacecraft will execute a 15-minute manoeuvre that will place it into orbit around Mercury, making it the first craft ever to do so, and…
A glove on your hand can change your mind
— 11 Mar 2011 16:04 | HealthUnconsciously, right-handers associate good with the right side of space and bad with the left. But this association can be rapidly changed, according to a study published online March…
Super-sharp radio 'eye' remeasuring the universe
— 20 Feb 2011 16:06 | AstronomyUsing the super-sharp radio 'vision' of astronomy's most precise telescope, scientists have extended a directly-measured 'yardstick' three times farther into the cosmos than ever before,…
Catching space weather in the act
— 18 Feb 2011 18:14 | EnvironmentClose to the globe, Earth's magnetic field wraps around the planet like a gigantic spherical web, curving in to touch Earth at the poles. But this isn't true as you get further from…
A race against time to find Apollo 14's lost voyagers
— 10 Feb 2011 20:04 | AstronomyIn communities all across the US, travellers that went to the moon and back with the Apollo 14 mission are living out their quiet lives. The voyagers in question are not astronauts.…