High Tech Fashion: Radiation-proof is the new black
Yury Gogotsi and his colleagues have just developed highly conductive and scalable Ti3C2Tx-coated fabrics capable of efficient electromagnetic interference (EMI)...
Tag: Physics
Bacterial prospectors take on the final frontier
Bacteria currently used as catalysts in earthbound mining processes could one day be used to extract critical elements in space...
Cosmic ghost hunting: CNO neutrinos from the Sun detected for the first time
An international collaboration of particle physicists has announced the detection of solar neutrinos originating from the secondary fusion cycle powering...
The colours of nature
Pigment-containing chromatophores create the vibrant red and blue hues on the skin of the Siamese fighting fish. When stressed or...
NASA rover ‘Perseverance’ sets off in search of life on Mars
Perseverance and Ingenuity, artist’s concept. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Launched on 30 July, NASA’s Mars 2020 mission is sending the Mars...
ESA & NASA Solar Orbiter captures first pictures of ‘campfires’ on the Sun
The first images taken by the spacecraft Solar Orbiter have been released, revealing many miniature solar flares near the surface...
Rewriting astronomy: have gravitational waves revealed an object to fill the mass gap?
An artist’s rendition of a mystery object in the ‘mass gap’ found by LIGO and Virgo. Image credit: LIGO/Caltech/MIT/R. Hurt...
Oldest galaxy disk yet to be observed: ‘Wolfe Disk’ formed soon after the Big Bang
Astronomers have found a galaxy with a disk that formed just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang – early...
Can neutrinos shed some light on the imbalance of the universe?
One of the Universe’s greatest mysteries revolves around antimatter, or rather the lack thereof. Physicists are convinced that when our...
