On the island of Vulcano, off Sicily, fiber optic cables have become sensors for the seismic events associated with volcanic activity, enabling experts to monitor the area easier and faster, without installing costly instruments which are hard to manage. The …
Scientists have discovered the oldest galaxy cluster known to date, which they say formed when the universe was very young, about 650 million years after the Big Bang. The cluster was first spotted by the Hubble Space Telescope, and the …
The gamma-ray burst (gamma ray flash) captured on October 9, 2022, was the brightest ever seen, according to observations presented at the American Astronomical Society's Division of High Energy Astrophysics conference in Hawaii and published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters …
Physicists at CERN in Geneva have obtained a new and more accurate measurement of the mass of the W boson, contradicting last year’s discovery by the Fermilab in Chicago that suggested a flaw in the Standard Model theory describing elementary …
Researchers at the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT) led by Barbara Mazzolai have developed a seed-inspired soft robot that can be used to monitor soil and air quality and contribute to reforestation. The ground-breaking development, part of the European project …