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...technique, in which a planet passing in front of its host star, along our line of sight, causes the star’s brightness to dim slightly (by around 1% for a Jupiter-sized planet orbiting a sun-sized star) once every orbit. So such a dip in a star’s brightness is a “light signature” of an exoplanet. Jupiter itself has over 70 moons, and four of these are comparable in...

...techniques in the laboratory, performing ever more sensitive and exquisite analysis on those precious Moon soil and rock samples. Their findings suggest that the Moon not only contains water as a surface veneer, further concentrated in cold traps, but also within the interior of the Moon itself. The Open University is at the forefront of a new wave of missions to the...

...techniques provide opportunities for much greater deposition rates compared to laser and electron beams. The heat source is analogous to a GTAW welding system, melting the substrate with a plasma arc. With high depositions rates and relatively large spot sizes comes low precision, surface quality and feature definition. The positioning system for DMD systems are what set...

...technique widely used in the clinic for the diagnosis of disease and visualisation of injuries, which utilises magnetic fields and electromagnetic radiation to create images of the physiology within the body. Contrast agents are normally needed to enhance the signal obtained from MRI and improve the quality of the images obtained, and the most popular contrast agent...