Freed scientist finds little change or hope in Russia Grey, pale and thin, Valentin Danilov has changed more than the country that jailed him in 2004 for selling state secrets to China. The 66-year-old Russian physicist, whose face is now criss-crossed with deep wrinkles, could not be blamed for su...
Sky confirms 'shining moon' behind Frankenstein A Texas astronomer has used science to confirm one of the most famous tales in western literature, the "bright and shining moon" over Lake Geneva that inspired an 18-year-old Mary Shelley to write "Frankenstein; or the Modern Prom...
On May 19, 1971, the Soviet Union launched the Mars 2 unmanned lander and orbiter. The Mars 2 and Mars 3 missions consisted of identical spacecraft, each with an orbiter and an attached lander; they were the first human artifacts to impact the surface of Mars. [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M...
On the 27th of November, 1944, 4,000 tonnes of bombs stored at an underground ammunition depot in a former gypsum mine at Fauld, Staffordshire, were detonated. The blast destroyed two farms and destroyed a large part of the nearby village of Hanbury and 70 men and women lost their lives. The blast was...
Sir Horace Lamb FRS (27 November 1849 - 4 December 1934) was a British applied mathematician and author of several influential texts on classical physics, among them Hydrodynamics (1879) and Dynamical Theory of Sound (1910). Read more
A Taste of Solar Maximum Forecasters say Solar Max is due in the year 2013. When it arrives, the peak of 11-year sunspot cycle will bring more solar flares, more coronal mass ejections, more geomagnetic storms and more auroras than we have ex...
ISRO eyes a 6-tonne 'K' band satellite The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) plans to foray into the powerful and high-throughput world of 'K' band satellites by importing a six-tonne satellite, building one itself, or both. It is looking at packing in 100 beams in a 'next generation' sate...
The International Astronomical Union (IAU) has approved new names for six features on Mars. Camichel for a 65.26-km-wide Martian crater located at 2.26°, 308.39°. The feature was named in honour of the French astronomer Henri Camichel (1907-2003). Dukhan for a 34.04-km-wide Mart...
Title: Geometries for Possible Kinematics Authors: Chao-Guang Huang, Yu Tian, Xiao-Ning Wu, Zhan Xu, Bin Zhou The algebras for all possible Lorentzian and Euclidean kinematics with so(3) isotropy except static ones are re-classified. The geometries for algebras are presented by contraction...
Title: Binary Black Hole Accretion Flows From a Misaligned Circumbinary Disk Authors: Kimitake Hayasaki, Hideki Saito, Shin Mineshige We study the basic properties of accretion flows onto binary supermassive black holes, including the cases in which a circumbinary disk is misaligned with the...
Association of Scientists stands behind Dr Mike Joy The New Zealand Association of Scientists (NZAS) is saddened by some of the recent media commentary on the actions of Dr Mike Joy, Massey University, in commenting in overseas media on the truth of the 100% Pure New Zealand brand. [url=http://www...
Qatar's capital Doha set to host UN climate talks Some 17,000 participants are due to attend the latest round of UN climate talks later in Qatar's capital, Doha. Over the next two weeks they will be negotiating a new global deal on climate, but there are ongoing tensions between rich and poor countrie...
Title: X-ray Observations of High-B Radio Pulsars Authors: S. A. Olausen, W. W. Zhu, J. K. Vogel, V. M. Kaspi, A. G. Lyne, C. M. Espinoza, B. W. Stappers, R. N. Manchester, M. A. McLaughlin The study of high-magnetic-field pulsars is important for examining the relationships between radio pulsars,...
