March 2021
Data may be the new oil... but its real value is in actionable information
... world for the better. About the author Dr Geoff Smith is a director and consultant at Specto Natura Ltd, a Cambridge, UK-based Earth observation consultancy which advises its clients on the delivery of useful, accurate and reliable environmental...
19 April 2016
Gravitational waves poised to be pinpointed by gamma ray burst
... what causes a short GRB," said Lindy Blackburn, a postdoctoral fellow at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and a member of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration. "There is an incredible synergy between the two...
24 June 2016
Will Brexit Lead to Spexit?
... an overwhelming 83% were against leaving the EU. According to an open letter published in The Times and signed by 150 Cambridge academics, including Stephen Hawking, leaving the EU would be a “disaster for U.K. science and universities.” One of the...
21 July 2017
A new way to search for gravitational waves?
... can be done in the mean time to search for gravitational waves? One team based in the UK thinks so. Located at Cambridge University, the Cavendish Laboratory and the Kavli Institute for Cosmology, the team have suggested that...
02 October 2017
New molecule discovery may have implications for chemistry on Earth
... comets. The team, whose lead author is Edith Fayolle from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, Massachusetts, have calculated that comets like 67P could have delivered up to 50 gigatonnes of chlorine by way of meteorite impact...
16 July 2018
Science begins with South Africa's super radio telescope
... of dipole antenna. A type of aperture array antenna that SKA will use. Image: Swinburne Astronomy Productions/ICRAR/U. Cambridge/ASTRON.
