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WAVES IN STELLAR ATMOSPHERES
ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY PRESS NOTICE:   view more (2005-03-28)

NASA's Swift Catches Farthest Ever Gamma-Ray Burst
NASA's Swift satellite has found the most distant gamma-ray burst ever detected. The blast, designated GRB 080913, arose from an exploding star 12.8 billion light-years away.   view more (2008-09-23)

First journey for Europe's first Moon-mapping instrument
An instrument that will map the entire surface of the Moon and determine the minerals and elements in its rocks is due to be delivered to the European Space Agency (ESA) this week. The D-CIXS instrument is a tiny imaging X-ray spectrometer the size of a toaster and weighing less than 5 kilograms.... view more (2002-08-05)

RiboTargets joins Partnership for Structural Biology at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility
RiboTargets, the structure-based drug discovery company that develops novel cancer and anti-bacterial therapeutics, announced today that it has joined the new Partnership for Structural Biology (PSB) established at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF). Associate membership of the PSB... view more (2003-01-24)

Stress management: X-rays reveal Si thin-film defects
Pile-ups, bad on the freeway, also are a hazard for the makers of high-performance strained-silicon (Si) semiconductor devices.   view more (2006-07-10)

GAMMA RAYS AND DARK MATTER
For a long time it has been known that the Milky Way is surrounded by a (nearly spherical) halo of invisible matter, which contributes at least 90% of the whole galactic mass. Yet, almost nothing is known about the nature of such a dark halo.   view more (1999-02-26)

Biggest ever Gamma Ray search starts in Namibia
The world's most sensitive Gamma Ray telescopes are being inaugurated in Namibia (in Southwest Africa) on September 3rd. The High Energy Stereoscopic System (H.E.S.S.), a European/African collaboration in which the UK is a partner, will look for Gamma Rays produced by the most energetic particles... view more (2002-08-28)

Skylark Gets Set for Final Launch
The launch of the 441st Skylark sounding rocket marks the end of 50 years of outstanding scientific research that has included investigations into atmospheric conditions, X-ray astronomy, land use and the effects of microgravity.   view more (2005-04-28)

New X-ray microbeam answers 20-year-old metals question
What happens to metals when you bend them? The question isn't as easy as you may think. A research team from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), and the University of Southern California, using a unique X-ray probe, has gathered the first... view more (2006-08-07)

GALAXY CLUSTERS, NEAR AND FAR, HAVE A LOT IN COMMON
ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY PRESS NOTICE:   view more (2005-03-28)

Lord Sainsbury meets the new generation of female physicists
Science minister Lord Sainsbury met a keen potential female physicist when he opened the Institute of Physics' new building and launched a programme to encourage more women to do physics. Clio Franklin is the physics-mad great-niece of Rosalind Franklin, whose X-ray pictures of DNA led to the... view more (2003-05-23)

UK study quantifies cancer risk from diagnostic X-rays (pp 340, 345)
The most detailed calculation of its kind to estimate the risk of cancer from exposure to diagnostic X-rays is published in this week's issue of THE LANCET. It suggests that in the UK around 700 of the 124,000 cases of cancer diagnosed annually could be attributable to exposure to diagnostic... view more (2004-01-28)

Best Microchemical Study of an Archeomaterial
Bronze age artifacts, physical links between us and people alive 3000 years ago, have long been closely examined with physics-based instruments such as x-ray crystallography and mass spectrometry.   Now scrutiny of microchemical surface properties of such ancient bronze in some... view more (2001-09-04)

Europe opens a window onto a violent Universe
ESA PR 66-2002. The European Space Agency has today launched a new observatory set to revolutionise the branch of astrophysics that seeks to unravel the secrets of the highest-energy - and therefore the most violent - phenomena in the Universe. This comes 20 years after the end of ESA`s COS-B... view more (2002-10-17)

Maths provides answer to airport security puzzle
High flyers will enjoy faster and safer travel in the future, thanks to mathematicians at The University of Manchester and airport security specialists Rapiscan Systems.   view more (2006-10-12)

£4 Million for New Centres for Structural Biology
The Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) today announces its intention to fund four more UK Centres for Structural Biology.   view more (1999-02-01)

Neutron stars join the black hole jet set
NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory has revealed an X-ray jet blasting away from a neutron star in a binary system.   view more (2007-06-28)

Black holes, galaxies young and old visible in massive mapping of the night sky
Color images documenting the past 10 billion years of galactic evolution were distributed online this week as part of the first public release of data from a massive project to map a distant region of the universe that combines the efforts of nearly 100 researchers from around the world, including... view more (2007-10-04)

Searching the heavens
A new space mission, due to launch this month, is going to shed light on some of the most extreme astrophysical processes in nature - including pulsars, remnants of supernovae, and supermassive black holes.   view more (2008-05-01)

New evidence shows MabThera inhibits joint damage in patients with rheumatoid arthritis
New data presented at the EULAR meeting (European League Against Rheumatism) show for the first time that MabThera (rituximab), a unique B cell targeted therapy, is able to significantly inhibit structural damage of joints caused by rheumatoid arthritis (RA).   view more (2006-06-22)

Massive Black Hole Smashes Record
Using two NASA satellites, astronomers have discovered the heftiest known black hole to orbit a star. The new black hole, with a mass 24 to 33 times that of our Sun, is more massive than scientists expected for a black hole that formed from a dying star.   view more (2007-10-31)

Discovery of Giant X-ray Loop Hints at Cosmic Particle Accelerator
Astronomers have found a vast loop-like structure, 20 light years across, adjacent to the most massive star-forming region known in our galaxy. The loop, which was observed in X-ray wavelengths, is 15 times the size of the Arches Cluster, a star-forming region close to the centre of the Milky Way.... view more (2005-03-31)

Improved process of drying lumber may save millions
Watching lumber dry may be as boring as watching paint dry, but soon, the amount of time needed to dry a piece of wood might decrease dramatically, according to Penn State forest resources expert.   view more (2005-07-12)

Scientific excellence through European collaboration: EUR 1 million EU Descartes Prize rewards two projects in the field of medicine and astrophysics
The EU Descartes Prize was awarded today to two research projects in the fields of medicine and astrophysics. One project greatly advanced our understanding of Multiple Sclerosis and is offering leads for new drugs. The other project has discovered the origins of Gamma Ray Bursts and is providing... view more (2002-12-05)

Jekyll-Hyde neutron star discovered by researchers
Like something out of a Robert Louis Stevenson novel, researchers at NASA and McGill University discovered an otherwise normal pulsar which violently transformed itself temporarily into a magnetar, a stellar metamorphosis never observed before.   view more (2008-02-22)
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