Tolulope Olugboji, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Seismology, University of Maryland Africa was once at the centre of the world – literally. It was the landmass at the centre of Pangaea, a super continent that broke up into smaller plates about 200 million years ago. Today, Africa sits on the second largest of these plates and her […]
Printable, flexible, organic solar cells
Unlike the solar cells you’re used to seeing, organic photovoltaics are made of compounds that are dissolved in ink and can be printed and molded using simple techniques. The result is a low-weight, flexible, semi-transparent film that turns the energy of the sun into electricity. Hannah Bürckstümmer shows us how they’re made – and […]
Goodbye Kepler, hello TESS: Passing the baton in the search for distant planets
We now know that there are at least as many planets in the galaxy as there are stars, and many of those planets are quite unlike what we have here in the solar system. Jason Steffen, Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy, University of Nevada, Las Vegas – April 9, 2018 For centuries, human beings […]
Antarctica’s grounding lines shifting
European Space Agency (ESA) 3 April 2018 ESA’s CryoSat mission has revealed that, over the last seven years, Antarctica has lost an area of underwater ice the size of Greater London. This is because warm ocean water beneath the continent’s floating margins is eating away at the ice attached to the seabed. Most Antarctic glaciers […]
Hawking pinned his hopes on ‘M-theory’ to fully explain the universe – here’s what it is
Lorenzo Bianchi, Marie Curie Fellow in Theoretical Physics, Queen Mary University of London Rumour has it that Albert Einstein spent his last few hours on Earth scribbling something on a piece of paper in a last attempt to formulate a theory of everything. Some 60 years later, another legendary figure in theoretical physics, Stephen Hawking, […]
JUPITER: Scientists unlock secrets of the planet’s interior
Andrew Coates, Professor of Physics, Deputy Director (Solar System) at the Mullard Space Science Laboratory, UCL We all recognise Jupiter by its banded pattern of counter-rotating zones and belts – this can be seen even with small garden telescopes. These stunning structures are powered by fast jet streams that are visible in the planet’s clouds. […]
NASA finds large amounts of Water in an Exoplanet’s Atmosphere
Much like detectives who study fingerprints to identify the culprit, scientists used NASA’s Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes to find the “fingerprints” of water in the atmosphere of a hot, bloated, Saturn-mass exoplanet some 700 light-years away. And, they found a lot of water. In fact, the planet, known as WASP-39b, has three times […]
Timeline of HUMAN Evolution
The process of evolution involves a series of natural changes that cause species (populations of different organisms) to arise, adapt to the environment, and become extinct. All species or organisms have originated through the process of biological evolution. In animals that reproduce sexually, including humans, the term species refers to a group whose adult members […]
Scientists grow human eggs to full maturity in a lab
Kate Kelland, London- REUTERS Publishing their result in the journal Molecular Human Reproduction on Friday, scientists from Britain and the United States said it could one day help in developing regenerative medicine therapies and new infertility treatments. In previous studies, scientists had developed mouse eggs in a laboratory to the stage where they produced live offspring, […]
SpaceX Launches Falcon Heavy Rocket on Historic Maiden Voyage
By Tariq Malik, Space.com Managing Editor CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida U.S. The first Falcon Heavy rocket built by the private spaceflight company SpaceX soared on its maiden voyage today (Feb. 6) — a historic test flight that also sent a car toward Mars and included two confirmed booster landings. Billed as the world’s most powerful booster […]
