Arrays

The MeerKAT radio telescope array is finally up and running in South Africa. To show off what the facility can do, astronomers have pointed all 64 antennas towards the center of the Milky Way galaxy, and snapped one of the clearest shots ever taken of the mysterious region.

Fast radio bursts have scientists puzzled, but the Australian Square Kilometer Array Pathfinder radio telescope may help find some answers. New Atlas spoke to Keith Bannister, an astronomer on the project, about what might be behind these strange signals and how the mystery might be unraveled.

Scientists at Harvard University and the Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies have developed a method for simulating the evolution of the Universe that produces realistic galaxies.

The Square Kilometer Array (SKA) Organisation has announced that the world's largest and most sensitive radio telescope will be shared between Australia and South Africa.

Scientists have created an array of microlenses that slow down or stop light, which could be used to identify biological substances.

Through the implantation of a stimulating electrode array, a team of researchers has given a man rendered paralyzed from the chest down the ability to stand and take his first tentative steps in four years.

August 13, 2005 Edison International subsidiary Southern California Edison (SCE), the nation’s leading purchaser of renewable energy, and Stirling Energy System