Science
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Mother Nature’s bio-superlens: Spider silk
Aug 22, 2016News Hour: Scientists at the UK’s Bangor and Oxford universities have achieved a world first: using spider-silk as a superlens to increase the microscope’s potential. Extending the limit of classical microscope’s resolution has been the ‘El... -
Capacity might be increased by six times: Lithium-ion batteries
Aug 22, 2016News Hour: The team was able to show through neutron measurements made at the Institut Laue-Langevin in Grenoble, France, that lithium ions do not penetrate deeply into the silicon. During the charge cycle, a 20-nm anode... -
Iran released images of its first domestically built missile defence system
Aug 21, 2016News Hour: Iran released images of its first domestically built long-range missile defence system on Sunday, a project started when the country was under international sanctions, reports BSS Images on multiple state news agencies showed President... -
Chorus of black holes radiates X-rays
Aug 21, 2016News Hour: Supermassive black holes do not give off any of their own light, hence the word “black” in their name. However, many black holes pull in, or accrete, surrounding material, and emit powerful bursts of... -
Earth-size telescope tracks the aftermath of a star being swallowed by a supermassive black hole
Aug 21, 2016News Hour: The international team, led by Jun Yang (Onsala Space Observatory, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden), studied the new-born jet in a source known as Swift J1644+57 with the European VLBI Network (EVN), an Earth-size... -
A new look at the galaxy-shaping power of black holes
Aug 21, 2016News Hour: Data from a now-defunct X-ray satellite is providing new insights into the complex tug-of-war between galaxies, the hot plasma that surrounds them, and the giant black holes that lurk in their centres. Launched from... -
Alma finds a swirling, cool jet that reveals a growing, supermassive black hole
Aug 21, 2016News Hour: A Chalmers-led team of astronomers have used the Alma telescope to make the surprising discovery of a jet of cool, dense gas in the centre of a galaxy located 70 million light years from... -
Chance microlensing events probe galactic cores
Aug 21, 2016News Hour: The energy output of an AGN is often equivalent to that of a whole galaxy of stars. This is an output so intense that most astronomers believe only gas falling in towards a supermassive... -
Mapping the exotic matter inside neutron stars
Aug 21, 2016News Hour: The recent detection of gravitational waves emitted by two merging black holes by the LIGO and Virgo collaborations has opened up a new observational window into the cosmos. Future observations of similar mergers between... -
Volvo Cars and Uber join forces to develop autonomous driving cars
Aug 19, 2016News Hour: Volvo Cars, the Swedish premium car maker, and Uber, the world’s leading ride-sharing company, are to join forces to develop next generation autonomous driving cars. The two companies have signed an agreement to establish...
