Lowell Observatory and Discovery Communications Reach Milestone in Construction of the Discovery Channel Telescope.
The telescope will be amongst the most sophisticated ground-based telescopes of its size; and to be fully operational by 2010, the Discovery Channel Telescope wi...
Diamond to shine among SKA experts The Australian scientist will be at the head of a collective of some of the world's top astronomical minds as they ponder a lot more than just the properties of individual "little stars". He has just been appointed as director-general of the SKA Organisa...
Crosby Garrett Helmet to be part of Royal Academy exhibition A Roman cavalry helmet bought for £2.2m at auction after it was discovered in a Cumbrian field is to go on public display for the first time. The Crosby Garrett Helmet, named after the village near where it was found, is to feature as part of a R...
The Forestry Commission has invited astronomer Paul Money to take keen star gazers on a tour of the heavens and let them glimpse heavenly wonders through a powerful telescope. The event takes place on Friday February 19. To book call 01526 399943. The cost is £3 [url=http://www.marketrasenmail.c...
A long-time local science instructor and astronomist is on a mission to bring the stars and galaxies a lot closer to his students and the community. Avon Park High School science instructor Chris Stephan is an avid stargazer and is putting together a plan to purchase a unique and essential instrume...
A stunt event was behind apparent sightings of UFOs in Johannesburg in the last week, according to a report on Sunday. The Cartoon Network (CN) television channel told the City Press that newspaper the unidentified flying objects (UFOs) were part of a stunt event promoting a new television series a...
70 years later, declassified documents shed new light on B-25 crash Throughout the years, Licking County has experienced its share of plane crashes. The worst, however, occurred on Sept. 8, 1942, when a B-25C bomber plummeted from the skies, slamming into a residential area of Newark. The crash ki...
Hans Georg Dehmelt (born 9 September 1922 in Görlitz, Germany) is a German-born American physicist, who co-developed the ion trap technique with Wolfgang Paul, for which they shared one-half of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1989 (the other half of the Prize in that year was awarded to Norman Foster R...
Mammoth Cave National Park is a U.S. National Park in central Kentucky, encompassing portions of Mammoth Cave, the longest cave system known in the world. The official name of the system is the Mammoth-Flint Ridge Cave System for the ridge under which the cave has formed. On September 9, 1972, a six-...
Title: Silver and palladium help unveil the nature of a second r-process Authors: Camilla Juul Hansen, Francesca Primas, Henrik Hartman, Karl-Ludwig Kratz, Shinya Wanajo, Bruno Leibundgut, Khalil Farouqi, Oliver Hallmann, Norbert Christlieb, Hampus Nilsson The rapid neutron-capture proc...
A women in Campbell River, BC, Canada recorded a fleet of UFO orbs cruising across the sky on the night of September 2, 2012. Very similar orbs were also seen in Campbell River on August 14, 2012. Ed ~ They were probably Chinese lanterns
The Hampstead Scientific Society is celebrating the 100th anniversary of its observatory, the only one in London that regularly opens to the public. The society's president, Doug Daniels, 70, has been a keen amateur astronomer since he was 13. [url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/london/hi/pe...
Al-Farghani, from the Tigris to the Nile Commissioned by a Caliph, Al-Farghani made a long journey, from his home in present-day Uzbekistan, through Iraq and finally to Egypt to add his extensive knowledge to the Nilometer - by which life on the Nile depends on [url=http://english.ahram.org.eg/...
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