by nick | Feb 23, 2017 | Earth and Environment, Engineering and Tech, Physical Science
The European Southern Observatory (ESO), is an intergovernmental organisation that facilitates astronomy and astrophysics research. Since its creation in 1962, ESO has provided scientists with the world’s most powerful ground-based telescopes in its host state of...
by nick | Feb 23, 2017 | Engineering and Tech, Physical Science
Dr. Scott Hsu is a fusion physics research scientist interested in obtaining cost efficient, clean energy for the world. His work, pursued with Dr. F. Douglas Witherspoon and others, focuses on plasma-implosion research for an alternate-fusion approach. Dissected view...
by Iliyah | Feb 23, 2017 | Engineering and Tech, Physical Science
Dr Edward Kansa, winner of a George Green medal, has worked for decades on a fuller application of smooth radial basis functions with wide applicability in engineering, computer science, and physics – the powerful Kansa method. The Kansa method for engineers...
by nick | Feb 23, 2017 | Engineering and Tech, Health and Medicine
Professor Tom Royston is applying his expertise in the fields of acoustics and engineering to diagnostic medicine by developing the Audible Human Project, which aims to use sound to detect disease and injury within the body, particularly in the complex structure of...
by nick | Feb 23, 2017 | Engineering and Tech, Physical Science
Comprising thousands of radio dishes and up to a million antennae, the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) will be the world’s largest radio telescope. Referred to as the next generation of radio telescope, this instrument will be tens of times more sensitive and hundreds of...
by nick | Feb 23, 2017 | Earth and Environment, Engineering and Tech, Physical Science, STEM Education
NASA’s Chandra X-Ray Observatory orbits high above the earth, beaming back images of the high-energy universe impossible to obtain from the ground. Bringing this data to the world is Kimberly Arcand, Visualisation Lead for the project. Here we go into detail on some...
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