NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover spent most of March climbing the “Greenheugh Pediment”—a gentle slope capped by rubbly sandstone. The rover briefly summited this feature’s north face two years ago; now… Read More »Curiosity Mars Rover reroutes away from ‘gator-back’ rocks
Our universe is a chaotic sea of ripples in space-time called gravitational waves. Astronomers think waves from orbiting pairs of supermassive black holes in distant galaxies are light-years long and… Read More »Hunting for gravitational waves from monster black holes
An international team, co-led by researchers at The University of Manchester’s National Graphene Institute (NGI) in the UK and the Penn State College of Engineering in the US, has developed… Read More »Researchers engineer electrically tunable graphene devices to study rare physics
After 10 years of careful analysis and scrutiny, scientists of the CDF collaboration at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory announced today that they have achieved the… Read More »The most precise-ever measurement of W boson mass suggests the standard model needs improvement
A nanotechnology research group entered the race to develop a rapid test for COVID-19 in August 2020, running experiments on a new sensor for an American manufacturing company. The group… Read More »Nanotechnology research: Faster, cheaper COVID tests