Telescopes and space missions Research update Physicists find a particle accelerator in the sky Radio waves suggest lightning 'sprites' create powerful electron beams Read article: Physicists find a particle accelerator in the sky
Renewables Research update Where has all the heat gone? Climate scientists ponder Earth’s missing energy Read article: Where has all the heat gone?
Telescopes and space missions Research update Astronomers develop new planet-hunting tool Novel technique could let smaller telescopes find extrasolar planets Read article: Astronomers develop new planet-hunting tool
Ultracold matter Research update Randomness is no lottery thanks to entangled ions Number sequences guaranteed random by quantum mechanics Read article: Randomness is no lottery thanks to entangled ions
Stars and solar physics Research update Sun blamed for Europe’s colder winters Study finds strong link between solar output and winter temperatures Read article: Sun blamed for Europe’s colder winters
Ultracold matter Research update BEC coupled to mechanical oscillator Ultracold gas offers new way of probing tiny vibrations Read article: BEC coupled to mechanical oscillator
Ultrafast science Research update Combing makes for neat qubits Frequency comb entangles two atomic qubits Read article: Combing makes for neat qubits
Gravity Research update Black hole twins spew gravitational waves Stars less metallic than we thought Read article: Black hole twins spew gravitational waves
Nuclear power Research update New element 117 discovered Progress on route to the superheavy island of stability Read article: New element 117 discovered
Particles and interactions Research update Strange quark weighs in Researchers get best ever estimate for the mass of a strange quark Read article: Strange quark weighs in
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