Hypervelocity stars discovered trying to escape the galaxy
20 candidates for a new type of hypervelocity star have been announced by an international team of astronomers.
Denial on ice: the polar vortex of confusion
The polar vortex that swept across North America this holiday was one that left both the ground and politicians rather frosty, albeit for different reasons.
Why solar cells prefer Adele over Beethoven
Could Miley Cyrus help lower your energy bills?” asked the Daily Mail. The answer: probably not, but ambient noise could increase the efficiency of solar cells, researchers at Imperial College and Queen Mary University of London have found.
Gender differences? It’s all in our head
New research has shown that the brains of females and males have different patterns of connectivity, possibly alluding as to why men may not behave the same as women. In this impressively large study published by PNAS...
Extinction, death and dinosaurs
Rosamund Pearce writes for I, Science on resurrecting the extinct
The magic of metamaterials
Keir Little talks about Harry Potter, US Defense research and the creation of a new frontier of science with Professor Sir John Pendry
The invisibility cloak & Metamaterial-enhanced solar cells
Taking a closer look at metamaterials
Frozen rainbows and corkscrew lasers
Professor Ortwin Hess speaks to Keir Little about his research
Untouchable photons
Photons can often be difficult to measure because as soon as they are, they are gone. Most measurement methods require direct absorption, or are in some other way destructive to the nature of the particle.
Synthetic alcohol does this - The end of the hangover?
For those reading this hungover in bed after that “quick pint” on a Thursday evening turned into a free for all, we have good news. It seems that our very own Professor Nutt, previous government advisor and keen advocate of drug legalisation, has finally identified candidate molecules...
Night owls perform worse
Amrita Ghosh & Arya Mehta explain why all-nighters aren’t wise
Mars MAVEN mission launches
This week the latest US mission to Mars launched successfully; NASA called the launch “flawless”. The rocket carrying the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) spacecraft left the Earth on Monday from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, the site of many previous NASA missions...