03 August 2018
Plate tectonics not needed for life, but UV light is
.... By looking at the type and strength of light given off by its host star, researchers from the University of Cambridge and the Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology (MRC LMB) have identified a group of planets where...
11 December 2018
Voyager 2 joins its twin in interstellar space
..., principal investigator for the PLS instrument and a principal research scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge. The PLS instrument aboard Voyager 1 stopped working in 1980 long before that probe crossed the heliopause...
15 July 2019
New study says silica aerogel could make Mars habitable
... modification are currently well beyond human capability for the foreseeable future, so Robin Wordsworth of Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA and colleagues looked at the problem from a completely different angle; a thin and durable substance...
20 March 2020
Missing particle a major blow for "Theory of Everything"
... and so should be easier to spot. With this in mind, a team of astronomers led Christopher Reynolds at the University of Cambridge in the UK, looked for signs of conversion by axion-like particles in material falling towards the supermassive black...
04 May 2020
Exoplanets with hydrogen-rich atmospheres could harbour life
... of life in these environments is lacking. To address this shortfall, Sara Seager at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, US and colleagues conducted laboratory-based tests on two single-celled microorganisms, escherichia coli and yeast...
12 October 2020
Rarely detected star shredding event caught in unprecedented detail
... says study author Thomas Wevers, an ESO Fellow in Santiago, Chile, who was at the Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge, UK, when he conducted the work. “We immediately pointed a suite of ground-based and space telescopes in that direction...
