Archived News
Our pick of the latest physics stories from around the world wide web.
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Ammonite diet revealed in X-rays
07/01/2011
Exquisite X-ray images are providing new insights on how the ammonites lived and perhaps also on why they died out.
Swarm satellite mission to try to sense ocean magnetism
17/12/2010
European scientists are going to try to measure the movement of the oceans by tracing their magnetism alone.
'Diamond exoplanet' idea boosted by telescope find
10/12/2010
A US-British team of astronomers has discovered the first planet with ultra-high concentrations of carbon.
'Lightfoil' soars on a stream of photons
07/12/2010
Light has been used to generate aerodynamic-like lift for the first time.
Cosmos may show echoes of events before Big Bang
29/11/2010
Evidence of events that happened before the Big Bang can be seen in the glow of microwave radiation that fills the Universe, scientists have asserted.
CERN scientists capture antimatter atoms
19/11/2010
Scientists have captured antimatter atoms for the first time, a breakthrough that could eventually help us to understand the nature and origins of the universe.
Web users unite to power climate change project
17/11/2010
Home PC users are invited to carry out pioneering research by tracking links between global warming and extreme weather.
Holographic communication flickers into life
04/11/2010
Long anticipated by science fiction, real-time holographic communication and 'telepresence' are finally within our grasp
Nasa hopes Epoxi probe will unlock mysteries of the comets
01/11/2010
Scientists hope that images of the orbiting bundle of dust, ice and rock known as Hartley 2 will solve some of the puzzles raised by previous missions to study comets
LCROSS moon mission may have struck silver
21/10/2010
A spacecraft that was crashed into the moon last year threw up debris that included not only water but also higher-than-expected amounts of silver.
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