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Whipple Observatory
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Astronomers solve mystery of dusty foot trails crossing telescope mirrors Accustomed to peering through the dust and debris of outer space, astronomers at the Smithsonians Whipple Observatory in southern Arizona were perplexed to find fresh deposits of dust and dirt upon the fragile mirrors of...
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Tom Boles
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A British amateur astronomer has broken a 36-year-old record for the number of exploding stars discovered by one person. Retired telecoms engineer Tom Boles, of Coddenham, Suffolk, has photographed and identified 125 supernovae erupting in distant galaxies from his private observatory. The p...
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Seaglider
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The University of Washington has surpassed its 2-year-old world record for operating a glider under the ice, this time by successfully operating one of its seagliders for six months as it made round trips hundreds of miles in length under the ice at Davis Strait. The result contributes to the longes...
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AMIDAS Website
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Title: The AMIDAS Website: An Online Tool for Direct Dark Matter Detection Experiments Authors: Chung-Lin Shan Following our long-term work on development of model-independent data analysis methods for reconstructing the one-dimensional velocity distribution function of halo WIMPs as wel...
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Mount Bosavi
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One name has always been on the lips of scientists who have spent their careers studying the tropical jungles of Papua New Guinea: Mount Bosavi. Biologists had long harboured a hunch that this extinct volcano, its enormous crater filled with rainforest, could contain a treasure trove of undiscove...
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Space Settlement Design Contest
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Bengal boy wins Nasa contest Small-town Bengal has finally entered the space age, and it's all thanks to a 15-year-old. Sayantan Bhattacharya, a resident of Behrampore's Gorabazar, about 200 km from Kolkata, has won top honours in Space Settlement Design Contest 2009, organised by Nasa. [url=ht...
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Georgia Quake
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A strong magnitude 6.3 earthquake occurred at 22:41:40 (UTC) on Monday, September 07, 2009, in the Georgia (Sak'Art'Velo) region, 72 km NE from Kutaisi, at a depth of 33 km. Location 42.630°N, 43.440°E
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Mashallah
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Masha'allah ibn Athar (c.740-d.815 AD) was an eighth century Persian Jewish astrologer and astronomer from the city of Basra (now located in modern day Iraq) who became the leading astrologer of the late 8th century. The Arabic phrase ma sha`a allah indicates acceptance of what God has ordained in...
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Bristol Centre for Nanoscience and Quantum Information
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The Bristol Centre for Nanoscience and Quantum Information (NSQI) was delivered in May 2009. The building, located on Tyndall Avenue, is a unique inter-disciplinary centre and one of the finest facilities for Nanoscience and Quantum Information in the world, designed to keep Bristol at the fore...
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Albanian Quake
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A moderate magnitude 5.7 earthquake occurred at 21:49:49 (UTC) on Sunday, September 06, 2009, in the Albania region, 62 km WSW from Tetovo, at a depth of 33 km. Location 41.820°N, 20.280°E
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Arctic Ocean observatory
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Polarstern installs Arctic Ocean observatory EU-funded researchers have succeeded in installing a new deep-sea observatory to monitor a mud volcano in the Arctic region. The observation ward was established during the research vessel Polarstern's 24th Arctic expedition from mid-July to ear...
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Dr. Homer E. Newell Jr.
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Two years before the Soviet Union launched Sputnik, and three years before he helped create NASA, American physicist and mathematician Dr. Homer E. Newell Jr. postulated satellites would one day orbit Earth in massive numbers. He also saw them orbiting at four times the altitude at which scientis...
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Miramap
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Weaknesses in dikes detected by space tech spin-off A company from one of ESA's Business Incubation Centres has used space technology to develop a scanner to spot weaknesses in dike structures. It is being used to inspect dikes and dams on the Danube river and in the Netherlands. Dutch start-up comp...
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2012 Lunar clock
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Scientists and artists plan to build a 40m-wide lunar clock by the River Thames by 2012. The aim is to create a new London landmark close to the proposed Olympic stadium as a monument to a more natural way of marking time. The proposed site is at East India Dock, six miles along the river from Westminster...
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Omniscopes
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Title: Omniscopes: Large Area Telescope Arrays with only N log N Computational Cost Authors: Max Tegmark (MIT), Matias Zaldarriaga (IAS) We show that the class of antenna layouts for telescope arrays allowing cheap analysis hardware (with cost scaling as N log N rather than N^2 with the number of a...
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