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.
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...
