Titanic replica being built by Australian billionaire The BBC has been given an exclusive interview with the Australian billionaire who is in the process of building a replica of the Titanic. Read more
NASA to Reveal New Discoveries in News Conference on Oceans Beyond Earth NASA will discuss new results about ocean worlds in our solar system from the agency's Cassini spacecraft and the Hubble Space Telescope during a news briefing 2 p.m. EDT on Thursday, April 13. The event, to be held at the James W...
Radio-burst discovery deepens astrophysics mystery The discovery of a split-second burst of radio waves using the Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico provides important new evidence of mysterious pulses that appear to come from deep in outer space. The findings by an international team of as...
The coelacanth is no longer the only living fossil fish swimming in our oceans. A Wits University PhD student has discovered that the parasitic lamprey, a fish which sucks the blood of other fish, is also a living fossil.
After years of painstaking work, Robert Gess has uncovered a world first: a 36...
Ivory inferno: Does burning tusks destroy them? This year Kenya, Ethiopia and Mozambique have all set fire to stockpiles of ivory to help tackle its illegal trade and curb elephant poaching. The practice goes back to July 1989 when Kenya's then-President Daniel arap Moi ignited a pile of 12 tonnes o...
Cyclone Cook: Evacuations as huge storm lashes north NZ Heavy rain is lashing New Zealand's North Island as Cyclone Cook, called the worst storm in generations, hits the north-east of the country. States of emergency have been declared in the Coromandel Peninsula and Bay of Plenty, with landslips...
2014 UZ224 is a trans-Neptunian object (TNO) and possible dwarf planet orbiting in the scattered disc. As of October 10, 2016, it was approximately 91.6 astronomical units (AU) from the Sun, and will slowly decrease in distance until it reaches its perihelion of 38 AU sometime near 2142. Read more
Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov (born June 25, 1928) is a Soviet and Russian theoretical physicist whose main contributions are in the field of condensed matter physics. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2003. Read more
Reptile fossils hint at wide diversity of dinosaur ancestors Fossils of a four-legged, meat-eating reptile are helping paint a more complicated picture of the ancestry of dinosaurs than scientists had understood. The creature was not a direct ancestor, but was more like a cousin. It lived about 2...
Darwin Day is a recently instituted celebration intended to commemorate the anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin on February 12, 1809. The day is used to highlight Darwin's contribution to science and to promote science in general. Read more
NASA's Kepler mission and UF astronomer find two new planets orbiting double suns Using data from NASA's Kepler mission, a team that includes a University of Florida astronomer has discovered two new planets orbiting double star systems, something that had never been seen until last September. T...
NGC 5506 (also MK 1376, MCG 0-36-28, IRAS 14106-0258, UGCA 387, and PGC 50782) is a magnitude +11.9 edge-on Seyfert spiral galaxy located 85 million light-years away in the constellation Virgo. The galaxy can be found about 2 degrees SW of the star Upsilon Virgo. The galaxy is close (03' south) to NGC...
NGC 5507 (also MCG 0-36-29, UGCA 388, and 50786) is a magnitude +12.5 lenticular galaxy located about 93 million light-years away in the constellation Virgo. The galaxy can be found about 2 degrees SW of the star Upsilon Virgo. The galaxy is close (03' north) to NGC 5506. Together, they form a gravita...
Title: No evidence for extensions to the standard cosmological model Author: Alan Heavens, Yabebal Fantaye, Elena Sellentin, Hans Eggers, Zafiirah Hosenie, Steve Kroon, Arrykrishna Mootoovaloo We compute the Bayesian Evidence for the theoretical models considered in the main analysis of Pl...
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