Wildlife Photographer of the Year winners The overall winner of the Veolia Environment Wildlife Photographer of the Year is Paul Nicklen (Canada) for his photo "Bubble-jetting emperors". It was taken near the emperor penguin colony at the frozen edge of the Ross Sea, Antarctica. Paul...
Roman gold coins found in St Albans field A "nationally significant" stash of Roman gold coins has been found by a man with a metal detector in Hertfordshire. Read more
European Advanced Grant for ASTRON astronomer The European Research Council (ERC) has awarded an Advanced Grant to prof. dr. Raffaella Morganti, head of the Astronomy Group at ASTRON and professor by special appointment on Structure and Evolution of Radio Galaxies at the Kapteyn Astronomical I...
ScienceGrrl Calendar launched A calendar featuring stunning images of UCL scientists and UCL locations has been launched to raise money for projects that encourage young women and girls to see science as an enriching, exciting and productive career choice. ScienceGrrl Calendar 2013 showcases...
A University of Melbourne exhibition will celebrate 20 years of architecture in the city. Architecture firm Six Degrees is known for reinvigorating Melbourne's laneways and bar scene through the design of bars such as Meyers Place. The exhibition, Greatest Hits 1992-2012, will focus on Six Degr...
Gart Westerhout (born 15 June 1927, The Hague, died 14 October 2012) was a Dutch-American astronomer. Well before completing his university studies at Leiden, he had already become well-established internationally as a radio astronomer in The Netherlands, specialising in studies of radio sou...
An extremely brief reversal of the geomagnetic field, climate variability and a super volcano 41,000 years ago, a complete and rapid reversal of the geomagnetic field occured. Magnetic studies of the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences on sediment cores from the Black Sea show that during...
Title: Tracing the potential planet-forming regions around seven pre-main-sequence stars Authors: A. A. Schegerer, S. Wolf, C. A. Hummel, S. P. Quanz, A. Richichi We investigate the nature of the innermost regions of seven circumstellar disks around pre-main-sequence stars. Our object sampl...
Could a Hurricane Ever Strike Southern California? There's an old adage (with several variations) that California has four seasons: earthquake, fire, flood and drought. While Californians happily cede the title of Hurricane Capital of America to U.S. East and Gulf coasters, every once in a whil...
Stacy Allison is most famous for becoming the first American woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest, the world's highest mountain, in 1988. Read more
Carl Clarence Kiess (October 18, 1887 - October 16, 1967) was an American astronomer. His main contributions was in the study of solar and stellar spectra. A lunar crater and the asteroid 1788 were named after him. Read more
Thomas Harriot (Oxford, ca. 1560 - London, 2 July 1621) - or spelled Harriott, Hariot, or Heriot - was an English astronomer, mathematician, ethnographer, and translator. He is sometimes credited with the introduction of the potato to the British Isles. Harriot was the first person to make a draw...
International Necktie Day is celebrated on October 18 in Croatia and in various cities around the world, e.g. in Dublin, Tübingen, Como, Tokyo, Sydney and other towns. Read more
A lecture to honour the 100th birthday of one of Manchester's most well-known mathematicians and politicians. It will be held in Lecture Theatre A in University Place, The University of Manchester, at 5pm on Thursday 18th October. It is free, but guests must register, which can be done at www.mi...
