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Dr Linda Tacconi, of the Max Planck Institute.
‘Ground-breaking' astronomer awarded 2024 Caroline Herschel Medal
A "ground-breaking" astronomer who specialises in how galaxies form and evolve has been awarded this year’s Caroline Herschel Medal - an honour which celebrates outstanding women astrophysicists in the UK and Germany. Dr Linda Tacconi, of the Max...
The 1954 Castle Bravo mushroom cloud.
End of nuclear secrecy? Underground tests now '99% detectable'
Secret underground nuclear tests could now be a thing of the past thanks to a major scientific breakthrough in ways to identify them. A team of Earth scientists and statisticians say they can now tell with 99 per cent accuracy if such an explosion...
Jørgen Christensen-Dalsgaard (left), Douglas Gough (centre) and Conny Aerts (right) have been awarded the Crafoord Prize in Astronomy 2024.
Unlocking answers to ‘Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star’ earns RAS Fellows prestigious prize
For more than 200 years the nursery rhyme " Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star" has posed a question astronomers have struggled to answer. But thanks to three Fellows of the Royal Astronomical Society, we are now unlocking the secrets of just 'what stars...