The world's largest single mass of gold is correctly not a nugget it is a specimen also known as a matrix. However, gold is gold whatever the name tag and an estimated 3,000 ounces of gold makes "THE BEYERS AND HOLTERMANN SPECIMEN" the world's largest single mass of gold. The specimen was d...
A well-established physical law describes the transfer of heat between two objects, but some physicists have long predicted that the law should break down when the objects are very close together. Scientists had never been able to confirm, or measure, this breakdown in practice. For the first tim...
Cho Oyu is the sixth highest mountain in the world at 8,201 metres above sea level. Cho Oyu lies in the Himalayas and is 20 km west of Mount Everest, at the border between the Tibet Autonomous Region and Nepal. Cho Oyu means "Turquoise Goddess" in Tibetan. The mountain was first climbed on Oc...
After months of failed negotiations, attempts by Tibet to secure foreign support and assistance, and PRC and Tibetan troop buildups, the People's Liberation Army (PLA) crossed the Jinsha River on 6 or 7 October, 1950. Two PLA units quickly surrounded the outnumbered Tibetan forces and captured t...
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, FRS (October 19, 1910 - August 21, 1995) was an Indian-born American astrophysicist who, with William A. Fowler, won the 1983 Nobel Prize for Physics for key discoveries that led to the currently accepted theory on the later evolutionary stages of massive stars. [url...
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Title: Nonthermal X-rays from low-energy cosmic rays: Application to the 6.4 keV line emission from the Arches cluster region Authors: Vincent Tatischeff, Anne Decourchelle, Gilles Maurin The iron line at 6.4 keV provides a valuable spectral diagnostic in several fields of X-ray astronomy. It...
Navy to find alternative site for missile firing range With the environment ministry red-flagging a naval missile firing range in Andaman and Nicobar Islands, the defence ministry on Thursday said it will find an alternative place to develop its testing site. The proposal was turned down to prote...
Secured supplies of fuel for the MARIA reactor Tri-lateral agreement between NCBJ, US DoE and the Areva-CERCA French company has secured supplies of fuel for the Polish MARIA research reactor sufficient to operate it up to the end of 2017. [url=http://www.ncbj.gov.pl/en/node/1986]Read more[...
Scot shoots first fictional feature in Antarctica A fictional feature film has been shot in Antarctica for the first time. Scottish climbing instructor and documentary-maker Kirk Watson filmed South of Sanity while working for British Antarctic Survey (BAS). Shot entirely in the Antarctic, th...
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