A new kind of electric motor is the cornerstone of a chain that can bend itself into multiple shapes.

High-energy accelerator beams colliding head-on have now completed the discovery of all the fundamental particles required by particle theory’s standard model. The search is on for new ones.

We love a good space debris mystery. Hey, who doesn’t, right?  Regular readers of Universe Today know that it’s a shooting gallery out there, from meteor fireballs caught on dashboard cams to rogue space junk reentries lighting up our skies. (...)Read the rest of Did a Piece of Mir Really Land in Massachusetts? (739 words) © David [...]

Citizens of Earth, get ready for your Cassini close-up: once again the spacecraft is preparing to capture images of Saturn positioned between it and the Sun, allowing for incredible views of the ring system and its atmosphere — and also a tiny “pale blue dot” in the distance we call home. (...)Read the rest of [...]

About 70 pages into The Milky Way, An Insider’s Guide, a strange craving for hamburgers overtook me. (...)Read the rest of Book Review: The Milky Way, An Insider’s Guide (550 words) © Elizabeth Howell for Universe Today, 2013. | Permalink | No comment | Post tags: Book Reviews, the milky way: an insider's guide, william h. [...]