Physics and Astronomy in the News
Recent news stories in physics and astronomy in reverse chronological order.
August 2008
- Bolt surges to gold in new record (BBC)
- Ancient shark had colossal bite (BBC)
- Liquid in Titan's lake (Register)
July 2008
June 2008
- Water confirmed on Mars (Science Daily)
- Mars lander gets digging practice (BBC)
May 2008
April 2008
March 2008
- Huge ice deposits 'seen' on Mars (BBC)
- The 'big daddy' of space robots (BBC)
- Cassini to make audacious flyby (BBC)
January 2008
- Mercury's volcanic past revealed (BBC)
- Darkest materials ever created (BBC)
- Space probe approaching Mercury (The Register)
December 2007
October 2007
- Space elevator isn't going anywhere yet (ZDNET)
- 200 wind turbine plan for North Sea (Guardian)
- Is there life on a moon of Saturn (Guardian)
- Pheonix Mars lander (The Register)
- New telescope array extends search for alien life (BBC)
- Gamma rays from thunderclouds! (SciAm)
- Mars: Opportunity goes panoramic on Victoria (The Register)
September 2007
- China's 18GW Three Gorges Dam environmental warnings (BBC)
- Boffins challenge shape of neutron neutrality (The Register)
- Little rovers survive dust storms on Mars (ZDNET)
- IBM nanotech breakthroughs (SciAm)
- Mystery of Sun's superhot corona may be solved (SciAm)
August 2007
- Jupiter's shield is a mixed blessing (BBC)
- Enormous void found in structure of Universe (BBC)
- Lift off for NASA's Mars probe (BBC)
- Brian May going for Astronomy PhD (The Register)
- Teams have another crack at space elevator prize (ZDNET)
July 2007
- Hydrogen-seven isotope observed (AIP)
- Laser ice-making (AIP)
- Solid state X-ray image intensifier for medicine (AIP)
- Proton therapy for cancer? (AIP)
- Mars dust storms threaten rovers (BBC)
- Mars ice poles swap over every 25,000 years (The Register)
- Astronomers make first map of extra-solar planet (Spaceflight Now)
