by nick | Feb 22, 2017 | Astronomy and Planetary Science, Earth & Environmental Sciences, Physical Sciences & Mathematics
Dark Is The New Black Eighty-four percent of the matter in the universe is made of something we cannot see, cannot detect, can only guess at based on the gravitational shadows it leaves in the visible universe. Sounds crazy? Welcome to the world of dark matter, where...
by nick | Feb 22, 2017 | Earth & Environmental Sciences, Physical Sciences & Mathematics
Professor Urs Schaltegger – Using Radioisotopes In Volcanic Crystals To Measure The Age Of The Earth Professor Urs Schaltegger, with his colleagues in the Isotope Geochemistry Group at the University of Geneva in Switzerland, analyse isotopes of Uranium and Lead...
by nick | Feb 22, 2017 | Earth & Environmental Sciences, Physical Sciences & Mathematics
Dr Joyce Penner – The Ice Cloud And Climate Puzzle Figuring out how the highest clouds in the sky behave means understanding how ice forms at high altitude. This is especially true when trying to quantify the impact of human activity on their formation and how...
by nick | Feb 22, 2017 | Earth & Environmental Sciences, Engineering & Computer Science, Physical Sciences & Mathematics
Dr Karen Bemis, Dr Darrell Jackson, Dr Guangyu Xu – The Last Unexplored Places On Earth It takes a multidisciplinary approach involving physics, chemistry, biology and geology to uncover the mysteries of the least explored and understood places on Earth. A...
by nick | Feb 22, 2017 | Earth & Environmental Sciences, Physical Sciences & Mathematics
Dr James T. Potemra – Investigating What Goes On At The Bottom Of The Deep Blue Sea Oceanographer Dr James Potemra and his colleagues at the University of Hawaii’s School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST) monitor one of the most remote places on...
by nick | Feb 21, 2017 | Medical & Health Sciences, Physical Sciences & Mathematics
Professor Andrew Webb – Tumours In The Crosshairs: New Tools To Resurrect An Old Strategy For Targeted Cancer Therapy Professor Andrew Webb and his undergraduate research students at Wellesley College have developed a highly selective nano-therapeutic that could...
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