UK launches space weather forecast centre
The UK officially opened its first space weather forecasting centre this week. Read more
The UK officially opened its first space weather forecasting centre this week. Read more
The 2014 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to Eric Betzig, Stefan Hell and William Moerner. Read more
Universities in both the United States and United Kingdom slipped slightly down the tables in the latest Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2014-15, released on 1 October. Read more
Spare a thought for scientists on the European Space Agency’s Rosetta mission, who will spend this weekend dissecting the ins and outs of five patches of land on a comet 440 million kilometres away. Read more
A former PhD student at the University of Coimbra, Portugal, has been arrested after allegedly attacking an ex-colleague with an axe. Read more
Delays and funding problems are threatening to push back the planned launch of ExoMars, a European and Russian rover designed to search for life on the red planet. Read more
The Giant Magellan Telescope received a boost today when Brazil’s São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) confirmed its plans to join the project. The $880-million facility, currently under construction, is one of three competing megatelescopes that will study the skies in the next decade. Read more
UK universities and science minister David Willetts resigned from his role on 14 July as part of a cabinet reshuffle. Read more
Just in time for the World Cup final, researchers have succeeded in building the first “buckyballs” made entirely of boron atoms. Unlike true, carbon-based buckyballs, the boron molecules are not shaped exactly like footballs. But this novel form of boron might lead to new nanomaterials and could find uses in hydrogen storage. Read more
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