Telescopes and space missions Research update Laser altimeter for BepiColombo Mercury mission ready for take-off Dual spacecraft mission to Mercury due to launch in April 2018 Read article: Laser altimeter for BepiColombo Mercury mission ready for take-off
Ultrafast science News Flash Physics: FAST joins alien search, warm dense matter, trio bags accelerator prize Today's selection of need-to-know updates from the world of physics Read article: Flash Physics: FAST joins alien search, warm dense matter, trio bags accelerator prize
Ultracold matter News Flash Physics: Industry attracts physics students, particles cooled coherently, planet’s rings rotate ‘wrong way’ Today's selection of need-to-know updates from the world of physics Read article: Flash Physics: Industry attracts physics students, particles cooled coherently, planet’s rings rotate ‘wrong way’
Telescopes and space missions News Flash Physics: Strong summer ice, spying the nearest exoplanet and École Polytechnique degrees in English Today's selection of need-to-know updates from the world of physics Read article: Flash Physics: Strong summer ice, spying the nearest exoplanet and École Polytechnique degrees in English
Telescopes and space missions News Flash Physics: Opportunity Rover goes crater diving, new deputy director of US Department of Energy, underwater transistors Today's selection of need-to-know updates from the world of physics Read article: Flash Physics: Opportunity Rover goes crater diving, new deputy director of US Department of Energy, underwater transistors
Ultracold matter News Flash Physics: Europa’s plumes, reflective atoms, LUX-ZEPLIN goes ahead and LHC elastic collisions Today's selection of need-to-know updates from the world of physics Read article: Flash Physics: Europa’s plumes, reflective atoms, LUX-ZEPLIN goes ahead and LHC elastic collisions
Surfaces and interfaces News Flash Physics: TRIUMF licenses isotope-production technology, Marsquakes may help to sustain microbial life, PandaX-II spots no dark matter Today's selection of need-to-know updates from the world of physics Read article: Flash Physics: TRIUMF licenses isotope-production technology, Marsquakes may help to sustain microbial life, PandaX-II spots no dark matter
Planetary science News Flash Physics: New material for heat harvesting, how to make hairy nanorods, a comet breaks up Today's selection of need-to-know updates from the world of physics Read article: Flash Physics: New material for heat harvesting, how to make hairy nanorods, a comet breaks up
Ultrafast science News Flash Physics: Philae lander spotted, Diamond Light Source launches electron-microscopy lab, prizes for cosmology and fusion research Today's selection of need-to-know updates from the world of physics Read article: Flash Physics: Philae lander spotted, Diamond Light Source launches electron-microscopy lab, prizes for cosmology and fusion research
Planetary science Research update Rosetta images cometary dust in 3D Results could shed more light on processes during the solar system's formation Read article: Rosetta images cometary dust in 3D
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