First ever view of the Milky Way seen through the lens of neutrino particles: The Milky Way, as seen with neutrino particles. IceCube Collaboration / US National Science Foundation (Lily Le and Shawn Johnson) / ESO (S. Brunier) Data collected by an observatory in Antarctica has produced our first view of the Milky Way galaxy …
From waste to clean water: tiny carbon particles can do the job: Clean water is in short supply around the world. But it doesn't have to be. borgogniels/Getty Images Many futuristic novels and films have explored what the world might look like without water. But water scarcity isn’t a problem for the far-off future: it’s …
London Underground polluted with particles small enough to enter the human bloodstream — new research: Roughly 2 million people use the London Underground each day. Tom Eversley/Shutterstock The London Underground is key to the functioning of England’s capital city. Roughly 2 million people use it each day. But it is polluted with small particulate matter …
Even scientists can’t keep up with all the newly discovered particles – our new naming scheme could help: fran_kie/Shutterstock Physicists at Cern have discovered a plethora of new exotic particles being created in the collisions produced by the Large Hadron Collider over the past few years. So many have been found in fact, that our …
Hundreds of millions of microplastic particles could be flowing into UK rivers, hidden in raw sewage: Graiff/Shutterstock Microplastics are everywhere. Snow close to the peak of Mount Everest was found to contain on average 30 microplastic particles per litre. And 11,000m below sea level, in the Pacific Ocean’s Mariana Trench, an average of 2,200 microplastic …
Are the northern lights caused by ‘particles from the Sun’? Not exactly: PhotoVisions/Shutterstock What a spectacle a big aurora is, its shimmering curtains and colourful rays of light illuminating a dark sky. Many people refer to aurora as the northern lights (the aurora borealis), but there are southern lights too (the aurora australis). Either way, …
How we found hints of new particles or forces of nature – and why it could change physics: The muon experiment. Reidar Hahn/Fermilab Seven years ago, a huge magnet was transported over 3,200 miles (5,150km) across land and sea, in the hope of studying a subatomic particle called a muon. Muons are closely related to …
Cern: scientists discover four new particles – here’s why they matter: LHCb experiment. Ro?????????????s???????????a????????? Menkman/Flickr, CC BY-SA This month is a time to celebrate. Cern has just announced the discovery of four brand new particles at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Geneva. This means that the LHC has now found a total of 59 …
South Africa in the news: Insights on the Coniferous Wood Chips or Particles Global Market to 2025 – Increase Profit Margins – ResearchAndMarkets.com: Market Analysis, Forecast, Size, Trends and Insights” report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com’s offering. The report provides an in-depth analysis of supply and demand for coniferous wood in …: “South Africa” – …
Bottle-fed babies may consume millions of microplastic particles, our research suggests: Evso/Shutterstock Microplastics can now be found in almost every environment on Earth, but scientists know surprisingly little about how the products we use every day shed these tiny plastic particles. If you drink from a plastic water bottle or eat out of a microwaveable …
Alzheimer’s disease: we designed an antibody to detect toxic particles in the brain: This antibody could be used to develop future treatments. Orawan Pattarawimonchai/ Shutterstock Alzheimer’s disease is the major cause of dementia, which affects more than 50 million people worldwide. This disease is still incurable, as we don’t know yet how to stop it, …
One of the benefits of the ownCloud architecture is that it scales from small installations, such as a Raspberry Pi for 1-10 users, to up to 500,000 users and a petabyte of storage running in a powerful cluster setup. Together with research organizations CERN and AARnet, we’ve been collaborating to bring this to a new level—breaking …