Science
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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... -
New computer programme replicates handwriting!!
Aug 14, 2016News Hour: In a world increasingly dominated by the QWERTY keyboard, UCL computer scientists have developed software which may spark the comeback of the handwritten word by analysing the handwriting of any individual and accurately replicating... -
Brain’s ‘physics engine’ allows us to catch, dodge, and react on the fly
Aug 14, 2016News Hour: Whether or not they aced the subject in high school, human beings are physics masters when it comes to understanding and predicting how objects in the world will behave. A Johns Hopkins University cognitive... -
Neutrino search finds no evidence of “hidden” particle
Aug 14, 2016News Hour: An exhaustive search for a ghostly subatomic particle called the sterile neutrino has come up empty, weakening the case for its existence. Scientists from MIT and the University of Wisconsin at Madison, along with... -
Sandman’s role in sleep control has been discovered
Aug 14, 2016News Hour: What causes a switch to flip in our brains and wake us up has been discovered Oxford University researchers. The discovery, published in the journal Nature, brings us closer to understanding the mystery of... -
Brains of overweight people ‘ten years older’ at middle age
Aug 5, 2016News Hour: From middle-age, the brains of obese individuals display differences in the white matter similar to those in lean individuals ten years their senior, according to new research led by the University of Cambridge. White... -
Nobel prize-winning Egyptian chemist Ahmed Zewail dies
Aug 3, 2016News Hour: Nobel prize-winning Egyptian chemist Ahmed Zewail, who served as a science and technology advisor to US President Barack Obama, died on Tuesday in the United States at the age of 70, Egypt’s presidency announced,...
