Month: April 2011

Flame retardants are chemical compounds added to fabrics and plastics to keep them from burning…

Galaxies are thought to develop by the gravitational attraction between and merger of smaller ‘sub-galaxies’,…

Detecting exoplanets that orbit at large distances from their star remains a challenge for planet…

Our Sun experiences regular eruptions of material into space, but solar physicists still have difficulty…

The supernova remnant Cassiopeia A (Cas A) is the relic of the explosion of a…

Researchers have monitored the birth of a sunspot over a period of eight hours using…

Jupiter-like worlds around other stars push shock waves ahead of them, according to astronomers. Just…

Astronomers from Wales and the Netherlands, in collaboration with five schools, have used eight telescopes…

Psychologists have learned why many people experience “inattention blindness” — the phenomenon that leaves drivers…