(IN BRIEF) Researchers from the University of Cambridge have conducted a study suggesting that comets could play a role in delivering the molecular building blocks for life to planets in other galaxies. The study proposes that comets, which contain prebiotic … Read the full press release
Posted in Education, Science, Technology, United Kingdom
Tagged astronomy, Cambridge, chemistry, comets, Earth, GALAXY, HCN, hydrogen cyanide, Kuiper Belt, molecular building blocks for life, Neptune, origins of life, planets, prebiotic molecules, Richard Anslow, Royal Society and the Science and Technology Facilities Council, Ryugu asteroid, Solar System, STFC, UK Research and Innovation, UKRI, University of Cambridge, Wolfson College
EXETER, 17-Aug-2018 — /EuropaWire/ — Professor Roy Sambles has today (Tuesday, August 14) been made an Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Physics – the highest honour the organisation can confer. Professor Sambles, from the University of Exeter’s Physics and Astronomy … Read the full press release
Posted in Education, Science, Technology
Tagged acoustic, astronomy, electromagnetic, Honorary Fellows, Honorary_Fellow, IoP, metamaterials, physics, Professor Roy Sambles, University of Exeter
SWINDON, 13-Aug-2018 — /EuropaWire/ — The first design project for what will soon be the world’s largest and most sensitive radio telescope – the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) – has been completed. After four and a half years, the international Telescope Manager … Read the full press release
Posted in Aviation & Aerospace, Science, Technology, United Kingdom
Tagged Alan Bridger, astronomy, Mark Nicol, radio telescope, STFC, telescope, Telescope Manager
THE HAGUE, 16-Apr-2018 — /EuropaWire/ — As part of the joint programme between NWO and the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) in the field of radio astronomy four projects have recently been awarded funding. Research in radio astronomy is at the … Read the full press release
THE HAGUE, 26-Jan-2017 — /EuropaWire/ — The Netherlands and South Africa have a joint interest in promoting and strengthening scientific cooperation in Astronomy (including Enabling Technologies for Astronomy). In 2012, NWO and NRF (the National Research Foundation of South Africa) have … Read the full press release
Posted in Education, Investment, Netherlands, Science, Technology
Tagged astronomy, National Research Foundation of South Africa, NRF, NWO
Six international research talents each receive up to €1.65 million in award money to establish their own research groups in Munich, Frankfurt, Heidelberg, Karlsruhe, Bochum and Hannover. BONN, 13-8-2015 — /EuropaWire/ — The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation has chosen six … Read the full press release
Posted in Awards, Financial, Germany, Science, Technology
Tagged astronomy, Biophysics, Chair of Physical Chemistry II, CHINA, Clara Saraceno, Elementary Particle Physics, Engineering Science, Heidelberg, Institute of Continuum Mechanics, Ioan M. Pop, Karin Lind, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Laser Physics, Leibniz University Hannover, Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Max Planck Institute of Biophysics, Mikhail Kudryashev, Neurobiology, Rikkert Frederix, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Sofja Kovalevskaja Awards, Solid State Physics, Sweden, Technical Mechanics, Technische Universität München, The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Zhuang Xiaoying
Minute variations in brightness reveal whole new class of stars 15-6-2013 — /europawire.eu/ — Astronomers using the Swiss 1.2-metre Euler telescope at ESO’s La Silla Observatory in Chile have found a new type of variable star. The discovery was based on … Read the full press release
Posted in Germany, Science, Switzerland, Technology
Tagged astronomy, astronomy organisation, Astrophysics, brightness, Chile, ESO, F. Barblan, Geneva, Geneva Observatory, Geneva Observatory in Switzerland, L. Eyer, La Silla Observatory, Nami Mowlavi, new class of stars, Observatory, S. Saesen, Stars, Swiss, Swiss 1.2-metre Euler telescope, Variable Star, Very Large Telescope
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