Recent News

Astronomers of SRON have discovered a new cluster of galaxies, hidden behind a previously identified cluster of galaxies.

U.S. troops blew up enemy bridges with explosives in World War II to slow the advance of supplies or enemy forces.

A novel tabletop touch screen allows hidden sequences of events to be observed in progress. It can be operated intuitively using a combination of fingers and recognizes swiping movements.

It is not science fiction to think that our eyes could very soon be the key to unlocking our homes, accessing our bank accounts and logging on to our computers.

In April, a European team of astronomers announced the discovery of two possibly habitable Earth-like planets.

MIT engineers have designed the first simple process for manufacturing materials that strongly repel oils.

Physicists have combined an atom-chiller with a molecule trap, creating for the first time a device that can generate and trap huge numbers of elusive-yet-valuable ultracold polar molecules.

An underwater archaeology team from Indiana University announced today (Dec. 13) the discovery of the remnants of scandalous 17th century pirate Captain Kidd's Quedagh Merchant. The researchers race to make the announcement to protect the site from looter

A new genus and species of dinosaur from the Early Jurassic has been discovered in Antarctica. The massive sauropodomorph is called Glacialisaurus hammeri and lived about 190 million years ago.

The Voyager 2 spacecraft's Plasma Science instrument, developed at MIT in the 1970s, has turned up surprising revelations about the boundary zone that marks the edge of the sun's influence in space.