by Paul Weissman from Nature 523, 42–43 (02 July 2015) doi:10.1038/523042a Analyses of images taken by the Rosetta spacecraft reveal the complex landscape of a comet in rich detail. Close-up […]
Bounty of dark galaxies found
from Nature 523, 9 (02 July 2015) doi:10.1038/523009b Astronomers have discovered more than 850 faint galaxies in a galaxy cluster that could be made mostly of dark matter. Using archived […]
From generation to generation
by Robert Kowalewski from Nature Physics 11, 705–706 (2015) doi:10.1038/nphys3464 A new measurement from the LHCb experiment at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider impinges on a puzzle that has been troubling […]
Dust-poor galaxies at early times
by Veronique Buat from Nature 522, 422–423 (25 June 2015) doi:10.1038/522422a Observations of galaxies that formed early in the Universe’s history reveal much lower dust levels than are found in […]
Evaporation drives engine
from Nature 522, 259 (18 June 2015) doi:10.1038/522259b An engine fuelled only by water evaporation can power a miniature car and lights. Ozgur Sahin at Columbia University in New York […]
Two-atom bunching
by Lindsay J. LeBlanc from Nature 520, 36–37 (02 April 2015) doi:10.1038/520036a The Hong–Ou–Mandel effect, whereby two identical quantum particles launched into the two input ports of a ‘beam-splitter’ always […]
‘Tatooines’ may be common
from Nature 523, 9 (02 July 2015) doi:10.1038/523009d Planets orbiting a binary star system — like Tatooine, the fictional home planet of Luke Skywalker in Star Wars — could form […]
Earl in Action
Space-rock alert
by Alexandra Witze from Nature 522, 418 (25 June 2015) doi:10.1038/522418a Step aside, Armageddon and Deep Impact: two films are in competition to be this generation’s seminal asteroid movie. Both […]
Stars seen forming in a far-off galaxy
from Nature 522, 259 (18 June 2015) doi:10.1038/522259a Astronomers have seen their best glimpse yet of stars forming in the early Universe. The ALMA radio telescope in Chile explored the […]
A Mars-sized exoplanet
by Gregory Laughlin from Nature 522, 290–291 (18 June 2015) doi:10.1038/522290a Analysis of Kepler data has yielded the smallest known mass for an exoplanet orbiting a normal star. Its mass […]
Megaflare seen on star surface
from Nature 522, 131 (11 June 2015) doi:10.1038/522131d Astronomers have spotted an enormous surge of light and magnetic energy on a nearby star. A team led by Wouter Vlemmings at […]
From physics to revolution and back
by Lui Lam from Science 5 June 2015: Vol. 348 no. 6239 p. 1170 doi: 10.1126/science.348.6239.1170 As a boy, I was not interested in science; I was interested in girls. […]
Pluto leads the way in planet formation
by Scott J. Kenyon from Nature 522, 40–41 (04 June 2015) doi:10.1038/522040a Images from the Hubble Space Telescope cast new light on the orbits, shapes and sizes of Pluto’s small […]