Lorraine Kelly, OBE (born 30 November 1959, Gorbals, Glasgow) is a Scottish television presenter, journalist and actress, best known as a presenter for TV-am, and later GMTV and ITV Breakfast, on Daybreak and Lorraine. Read more You wouldn't know it but I am very good at astronomy. My dad bought m...
Title: Exploring the unusually high black hole-to-bulge mass ratios in NGC4342 and NGC4291: the asynchronous growth of bulges and black holes Authors: Akos Bogdan (1), William R. Forman (1), Irina Zhuravleva (2), J. Christopher Mihos (3), Ralph P. Kraft (1), Paul Harding (3), Qi Guo (4,5), Zhiyu...
Flying Scotsman on show at National Railway Museum The Flying Scotsman steam locomotive has been unveiled after a five-year overhaul. The steam engine, the first to be officially recorded at 100mph, was bought for the nation in 2004. Since then it has been undergoing major restoration work at the N...
St. Andrew's Day is the feast day of Saint Andrew. It is celebrated on November 30 in Scotland. Saint Andrew is the patron saint of Scotland, and St. Andrew's Day (Scots: Saunt Andra's Day, Scottish Gaelic: Latha Naomh Anndra) is Scotland's official national day. Read more
Delta Librae is a variable star in the constellation Libra. It has the proper name Zuben Elakribi. Delta Librae is approximately 300 light years from the Earth and belongs to the spectral class B9.5V. It is an eclipsing binary star, with a period of 2.3272 days. Its apparent magnitude varies from 4.4...
Oceanic crust breakthrough: solving a magma mystery Oceanic crust covers two-thirds of the Earth's solid surface, but scientists still don't entirely understand the process by which it is made. Analysis of more than 600 samples of oceanic crust by a team including Carnegie's Frances Jenner reve...
Pagans are ready to show their pride and dispel the lingering misunderstandings surrounding their faith.
Hundreds of local followers of the often-misunderstood religion gathered for the fourth annual Pagan Pride festival in Gage Park. They soaked up offerings from hundreds of vendors, sp...
A Multi-Wavelength View of Radio Galaxy Hercules A Spectacular jets powered by the gravitational energy of a supermassive black hole in the core of the elliptical galaxy Hercules A illustrate the combined imaging power of two of astronomy's cutting-edge tools, the Hubble Space Telescope's Wide...
Scientists have discovered a "microworld" of 220-million-year-old life trapped in tiny drops of ancient amber.
The fossilised plant resin preserved bacteria, fungi, algae, and microscopic animals known as protozoans some 220 million years ago—the era when the very first dinosaurs began to...
Stolen NASA PC held space station control codes A laptop stolen from NASA last year contained command codes used to control the International Space Station, an internal investigation has found. The laptop, which was not encrypted, was among dozens of mobile devices lost or stolen in recent years t...
An innovative UK launcher concept is to get 1m euros (£900,000) of investment from the European Space Agency (Esa). The Skylon spaceplane would take off from a conventional aircraft runway, carry over 12 tonnes to orbit and then return to land on the same runway. The money will help prove the vehicle...
Elements of Loop Quantum Cosmology:
The expansion of our universe, when followed backward in time, implies that it emerged from a phase of huge density, the [url=http://mysite.wanadoo-me...
100 years of a discovery that changed the world A unique scientific discovery will celebrate its centenary in a full-day symposium at the University of Adelaide next week (Thursday 6 December). The Bragg Symposium is dedicated to the memory and significance of the scientific work of Sir William an...
The 2007 Martinique earthquake took place on November 29, 2007 at 14:00:19 local time (November 29, 2007 at 18:00:19 UTC) in the Windward Islands region, underneath the Martinique Passage. It was a magnitude 7.4 earthquake which occurred at 14.943°N, 61.244°W, 42 km NNW (336°) from Fort-de-Fran...
The 1783 New Jersey earthquake occurred on November 29, 1783 in the U.S. state of New Jersey. Measuring 5.3 on the Richter scale, it stands as the most powerful earthquake to occur in the state. Read more