With China launching a batch of probes this year in the first part of its space priority programme, Cindy Hao discovers that funding issues may hit future missions
Read article: Probes and priorities: China’s strategy for space
Gerry Gilmore and Floor van Leeuwen explain how the precise data from the Gaia mission will revolutionize our view of the galaxy
Read article: A billion pixels, a billion stars
Research from a cinema in Germany shows how the breath of a crowd can reflect how they’re feeling, as Stephen Ornes reports
Read article: Every breath we take
The vacuum-based technique of atomic-layer deposition – a variant of chemical-vapour deposition – holds much promise for energy and environmental applications
Read article: What atomic-layer deposition could do for energy and the environment
Why has plasma processing captured the imagination of bioscientists so strongly and what triggered its rapid rise in popularity?
Read article: Uroš Cvelbar: why bioscientists are inspired by plasma processing
Physicists have joined the battle to stop daguerreotypes – a prized, early form of photograph – from degrading any further, as Stephen Ornes reports
Read article: Preserving the past: using physics to save early photographs
Harald Haas explains how ordinary LED light bulbs could become our portals to the digital world thanks to a new wireless communications network that uses visible light
Read article: A light-connected world
Konstantin Batygin explains what led him and astronomer Mike Brown to propose the existence of a ninth planet in our solar system
Read article: Pathway to Planet Nine
Sarah Badman explains how observations of auroras on other planets are revealing new facts about these fascinating and beautiful phenomena
Read article: Extraterrestrial light shows
With NASA’s Juno spacecraft arriving at Jupiter this July, Stephen Ornes reports on what scientists have in store for this distant probe
Read article: Brave new Jupiter
