Fusion facility sets a new world energy record
European scientists have achieved a major success on the road to energy production through fusion plasmas: They produced stable plasmas…
Kinks, skinks and supersymmetry
Supersymmetry is symmetry of nature that is often hypothesized to exist among elementary particles. In a new paper that appeared…
Paris Agreement Climate Limits Still Catastrophic for Coral Reefs
Limiting global warming to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels will still be catastrophic for coral reefs, new research suggests. Scientists led…
A red giant loses its “skin”
This ghostly image shows a distant pulsating red giant star, called R Sculptoris. Situated 1200 light-years away in the constellation…
Dark matter travelling through stars could produce potentially detectable shock waves
Dark matter, a hypothetical material that does not absorb, emit or reflect light, is thought to account for over 80…
What is a scattered disc
Scattered disc is a distant circumstellar disc in the Solar System that is sparsely populated by icy small solar system…
Evidence found for existence of two forms of liquid water
Yoshiharu Suzuki, a researcher with the Research Center for Advanced Measurement and Characterization, National Institute for Materials Science in Japan,…
What is a Quantum Key Distribution?
Have you ever wondered how we can ensure the security of our communications in the face of rapidly advancing technology?…
Flowers in The UK Are Blooming a Whole Month Earlier
For centuries, British flowers have been blooming like clockwork. A few months into spring, sometime around May or June, the…
A New Trojan Asteroid Has Been Discovered Sharing Earth’s Orbit
Earth has officially been joined in its orbit around the Sun by a new trojan asteroid. Named 2020 XL5, this…