How do you dust a star for prints? Scientists have the answer to this strange question: by reconstructing the magnetic field ...

For the first time, astronomers have succeeded in observing the magnetic field around a young star where planets are thought ...

Keeping a security lock on any of your electronic devices is an important thing to do. Even with laptops, it’s important to keep a password or PIN so that others cannot unlock it unauthorised.

This would definitely seem to be the case with fingerprint sensors as found on a range of laptops that are advertised as being compatible with Windows Hello. It all began when Microsoft’s ...

The team was able to use this dust to reconstruct a 3D "fingerprint" of the magnetic field structure around the star HD 142527, located around 512 light-years away in the direction of the ...