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Astrophotography: new tech for the ‘New Astronomy’

Added: 19 Jan 2022

Space tourism remains out of reach for most, but Laurent Marfisi looks at how smart telescopes, ast…

Stardust in our DNA - our journey through time and space

Added: 9 Jul 2021

Applying her natural curiosity and the input from a very impressive contact list of experts, rising…

Why we need a science of science

Added: 25 Nov 2019

At the launch of a new initiative to understand how research is funded, practiced and evaluated, Pr…

Make ‘em laugh, make ‘em think…

Added: 11 Nov 2019

The Ig Nobel awards ceremony is a highlight of the scientific calendar with its celebration of unco…

Time to reconcile science and philosophy

Added: 4 Nov 2019

Despite close historical ties, philosophy and science have had a bumpy relationship in the modern e…

Reproducibility comes as standard (part 2)

Added: 5 Aug 2019

Science's reproducibility crisis is a big challenge and one that needs to be overcome quickly. In t…

Terraforming Mars: A giant leap too far?

Added: 17 Jun 2019

SpaceX plans to send humans to Mars by 2024 and establish a Martian city by 2050 but how plausible …

Opening science or narrowing its base?

bpbbjpttc.d bpbbjpttc.d | Added: 16 Apr 2019

It may carry laudable ambition, but will Plan S damage science? From 2020, the scientific publishin…

The quest to go quantum

bpbbjpttc.d bpbbjpttc.d | Added: 1 Apr 2019

Dotted around the UK, scientists are slowly but surely turning quantum research into commercial pro…

Future Circular Collider: Is it worth it?

bpbbjpttc.d bpbbjpttc.d | Added: 8 Mar 2019

Earlier this year CERN announced the Future Circular Collider study aiming to build on the success …

Future Circular Collider: What is it?

bpbbjpttc.d bpbbjpttc.d | Added: 8 Mar 2019

Earlier this year CERN announced the Future Circular Collider study aiming to build on the success …

Beating the diamond-standard

bpbbjpttc.d bpbbjpttc.d | Added: 4 Jan 2019

Forget diamond – when considering super-hard materials, says Metin Örnek, the search for an alterna…

Two beams are better than one

bpbbjpttc.d bpbbjpttc.d | Added: 10 Dec 2018

As neutron crystallography advances it is becoming a powerful scientific tool, but will it replace …

Minding the gap

bpbbjpttc.d bpbbjpttc.d | Added: 12 Sep 2018

When it comes to visualising ultra-fast phenomena, especially biological processes, there is a prob…

Some like it hot

bpbbjpttc.d bpbbjpttc.d | Added: 16 Mar 2018

The problem of ‘hot electrons’ mean that photovoltaic cells only harvest part of the sunlight they …

The legacy of Hawking radiation

bpbbjpttc.d bpbbjpttc.d | Added: 14 Mar 2018

Perhaps the most powerful legacy of Stephen Hawking was the inspiration he gave to others – but his…

A new quantum uncertainty

bpbbjpttc.d bpbbjpttc.d | Added: 5 Sep 2017

It’s quantum entanglement, but not as we know it say Kayn Forbes and David Andrews as we discover t…

Bringing the Sun down to Earth

bpbbjpttc.d bpbbjpttc.d | Added: 10 Jul 2017

Technical difficulties, experimental dead-ends and eye-watering development costs – yet the gargant…

What's the (anti)matter

bpbbjpttc.d bpbbjpttc.d | Added: 9 May 2017

Do we need to reconsider general relativity? Have we really grasped fundamental particles? Why is t…

Fake it ‘til you make it…

bpbbjpttc.d bpbbjpttc.d | Added: 18 Apr 2017

In the hunt for dark energy, cosmologist Dr Massimo Viola has become embroiled in a tale of decepti…