Cressida is an inner satellite of Uranus. It was discovered from the images taken by Voyager 2 on 9 January 1986, and was given the temporary designation S/1986 U 3. It was named after the Trojan daughter of Calchas, a tragic heroine who appears in William Shakespeare's play Troilus and Cressida (as w...
The Aswan Dam is an embankment dam situated across the Nile River in Aswan, Egypt. Since the 1950s, the name commonly refers to the High Dam. 1960: Start of construction on 9 January 1964: First dam construction stage completed, reservoir started filling 1970: The High Dam, as-Sad al-'Aali, comple...
Global Risks Report 2013 The World Economic Forum's Risk Response Network provides leaders from the private and public sectors with an independent platform to map, monitor and mitigate global risks. Its annual Global Risks Report analyses the perceived impact and likelihood of 50 prevalent glo...
Title: The mass and the radius of the neutron star in the transient low mass X-ray binary SAX J1748.9-2021 Authors: Tolga Guver, Feryal Ozel We use time resolved spectroscopy of thermonuclear X-ray bursts observed from SAX J1748.9-2021 to infer the mass and the radius of the neutron star in the bina...
Publius Ovidius Naso (20 March 43 BC - AD 17/18), known as Ovid in the English-speaking world, was a Roman poet who is best known as the author of the three major collections of erotic poetry: Heroides, Amores, and Ars Amatoria, and of the Metamorphoses, a mythological hexameter poem. Read more
Earth's closest neighbour, Mars, has always intrigued scientists, who now believe that humans could be living and working on the planet within the next 20 years.
To prepare for that possibility, NASA has set up a simulated Mars base - in the desert in the Western state of Utah.
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Do missing Jupiters mean massive comet belts? Using ESA's Herschel space observatory, astronomers have discovered vast comet belts surrounding two nearby planetary systems known to host only Earth-to-Neptune-mass worlds. The comet reservoirs could have delivered life-giving oceans to the...
Intel Shows 48-core x86 Processor as Single-chip Cloud Computer Intel unveiled a completely new processor design today the company is dubbing the "Single-chip Cloud Computer" (but was previously codenamed Bangalore). Justin Rattner, the company's CTO, discussed the new product...
Title: A spectroscopic study of southern (candidate) gamma Doradus stars. II. Detailed abundance analysis and fundamental parameters Authors: H. Bruntt, P. De Cat, C. Aerts The gamma Doradus stars are a recent class of variable main sequence F-type stars located on the red edge of the Cepheid ins...
We're asking everyone to help us find 'fans' on the Martian surface. Your classifications on this site will enable researchers to better understand the climate and surface of Mars. The images you see here are taken using a high-resolution camera in orbit around the Red Planet. We collect together e...
Herman Hollerith was awarded a series of patents in 1889 for mechanical tabulating machines. These patents described both paper tape and rectangular cards as possible recording media. The card shown in U.S. Patent 395,781 of June 8 was preprinted with a template and had holes arranged close to the...
The Battle of Wolf Mountain, also known the Battle of the Wolf Mountains, Miles's Battle on the Tongue River, and the Battle of the Butte, occurred January 8, 1877 in the Montana Territory between the United States Army and a force of Lakota Sioux and Northern Cheyenne during the Great Sioux War of 187...
Edward R. "Ted" Harrison (8 January 1919 - 29 January 2007) was a British astronomer and cosmologist, who spent much of his career at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and University of Arizona, USA. Read more
Walther Wilhelm Georg Bothe (8 January 1891 -8 February 1957) was a German nuclear physicist, who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1954 with Max Born. Read more
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