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Spintronics is an emerging field of basic and applied research in physics and engineering where the “neglected” magnetic degree of freedom of an electron, its spin, is envisaged to be exploited for classical and quantum information processing. While metallic spintronics has already delivered functional devices (GMR read heads in large capacity hard disk drives), and magnetic RAM of insulator…

India gained around 2.1 million hectares of tropical dry woodland between 2014 and 2024, an area larger than Wales, according to a major new study involving researchers from The University of Manchester’s Global Development Institute. The research was published in the journal Environmental Research Letters. The research found that large-scale tree planting, restoration schemes, and the expansion…

New simulations show that magnetic field interactions can decrease the distance between still-forming binary protostars. These results can help explain the characteristics of the binary star systems observed in the Milky Way. The results can also be extrapolated to binary black holes, giving insights into how supermassive black holes evolve. The work is published in the journal Monthly Notices of…

Tightly spaced planets inside an alien solar system known as Kepler-80 boast a rare orbital configuration. Mariah MacDonald, an undergraduate, and Darin Ragozzine, an assistant professor of physics and space sciences, both at Florida Institute of Technology, led the study. The unusual planetary array deepens the ongoing examination of similar systems known as STIPs (Systems with Tightly-spaced…

Eirsat-1, the first fully Irish-designed satellite, was built by UCD staff and students as part of an educational programme by the European Space Agency. It is set to fall out of orbit this week and disintegrate in the atmosphere, marking the culmination of a pioneering UCD-led project that has nurtured a generation of home-grown space experts now working in industry. The satellite was built by…

Hot enough to melt metal and blanketed by a toxic, crushing atmosphere, Venus ranks among the most hostile locations in the solar system. But astronomers have reported the detection of two gases that could point to the presence of life forms lurking in the Venusian clouds. Findings presented at the national astronomy meeting in Hull on Wednesday bolster evidence for a pungent gas, phosphine,…

Pip: Divyanshspacetech covers a lot of sky — and apparently some of the ground beneath it too. Mara: That’s right. This episode moves from reusable rockets and the cryogenic systems powering them, through some genuinely strange physics and planetary science, to questions about life in the universe and a few surprising stories closer to home. Pip: Let’s start with the rockets. India’s Reusable…

The global space industry is undergoing a major technological transformation as governments and private aerospace companies accelerate investments in reusable launch systems, deep-space exploration missions, orbital fuel depots, and long-duration space operations. At the center of this evolution is the rapid advancement of cryogenic storage technologies, which are reshaping modern space…