Read article: Is there really no place like home?
From zero to 350 in less than 14 years — this is the impressive track record of astronomers searching for planets orbiting other suns. In 1995 when two Swiss astronomers discovered that the star...
Read article: The power of robotics
Robotics competitions supply a vital missing link in science and engineering education, says Robert P Crease
Read article: New method to seek life-supporting exoplanets
Study using Deep Impact probe links shifting colours to water
Read article: Obama nominates new NASA boss
Former astronaut Charles Bolden picked for role of administrator
Business-as-usual will cause temperature rise of 5.2° by 2100, warn MIT scientists
Read article: ‘Chorus’ generates mystery space hiss
Physicists trace the origin of protective radio waves
Read article: Web life: Hyperphysics
So what is the site about? Hyperphysics is a network of cross-linked articles on topics from acceleration to the Zeeman effect — essentially an online physics encyclopedia. Unlike some sites fea...
Read article: Doing science in the open
Online networking tools are pervasive, but why have scientists been so slow to adopt many of them? Michael Nielsen explains how we can build a better culture of online collaboration
Read article: Multipolar dance could flip Earth’s magnetic field
Geomagnetic field reduced to a set of simple equations
Read article: In search of the black swans
The publish-or-perish ethic too often favours a narrow and conservative approach to scientific innovation. Mark Buchanan asks whether we are pushing revolutionary ideas to the margi...
