Dude, where’s my comet?
Comet ISON, which was due to emerge from behind the Sun today, has failed to appear, indicating that the comet…
Ball lightning all in the mind, say physicists
Physicists at the University of Innsbruck have shown that the magnetic fields produced by certain types of lightning have the…
Dwarf Star Activity Puzzles Astronomers
Astronomers have been observing an unusual M-dwarf star with an extremely active and complex magnetic field that is stronger than…
Intra-Molecular Movement Of Protons Observed
Using time-slices of just 100 attoseconds (one attosecond equals one billion-billionth of a second), scientists from Imperial College London say…
SMS – Smoggy Message Service
Street specific air pollution warnings will soon be available via text-messages in a pioneering project being tested in Central London…
Evolution Itself Subject To Natural Selection
Life has evolved to evolve. That’s the conclusion drawn by two Rice University scientists who have designed a computer simulation…