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Mercury’s ice is a recent arrival
from Nature 514, 538 (30 October 2014) doi:10.1038/514538b Ice at Mercury’s poles is a relatively new arrival — a finding that could help to resolve a debate about whether ice […]
Secret ingredient exposed
by Christopher M. Johns-Krull from Nature (2014) doi:10.1038/nature13932 Astronomers have suspected for some time that magnetic fields are a key ingredient in the accretion of material that surrounds young stars. […]
Signals from Earth
Nature 514, 538 (30 October 2014) doi:10.1038/514538d Radio pulses that look like they came from deep space could actually have earthly origins. A team led by Pascal Saint-Hilaire at the […]
The ultimate disappearing act
How is Lockheed Martin’s nuclear reactor theoretically going to work?
by Andy Lemke on Quora Let’s start with the basic physics. As most people know, a fusion reaction takes place when atoms are fused together, releasing energy in the form […]
Remembering Martin Gardner
by David Singmaster from Nature 465, 884 (17 June 2010) doi:10.1038/465884a ‘Mathemagician’ who popularized maths and debunked pseudoscience. From the mid-1950s to the early 1980s, perhaps the most well-known section […]
The age of the quasars
by Daniel Mortlock from Nature 514, 43–44 (02 October 2014) doi:10.1038/514043a An infrared census of accreting supermassive black holes across a wide range of cosmic times indicates that the canonical […]
The mass of a top
by Peter Skands from Nature 514, 174–176 (09 October 2014) doi:10.1038/514174a A measurement of the mass of the heftiest-known elementary particle, the top quark, which exists for less than a […]
Space ripples could pump up stars
Just a bit observation: to read the little news published on Nature you must pay, but the scientific paper is… free! Gravitational waves could energize and brighten stars — possibly […]
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2014
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2014 is awarded by Eric Betzig, Stefan W. Hell, and William E. Moerner for the development of super-resolved fluorescence microscopy
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2014
The Nobel Prize in Physics for 2014 is awarded by Isamu Akasaki, Hiroshi Amano, and Shuji Nakamura for the invention of efficient blue light-emitting diodes which has enabled bright and […]
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2014
The first Nobel Prize of 2014 in Physiology or Medicine is awarded by John O’Keefe and May‐Britt and Edvard I. Moser for thier discoveries of cells that constitute a positioning […]