A third 5,000-year-old hand-carved figurine has been discovered during excavations on Orkney. Archaeologists had previously unearthed two ancient figurines in 2009 and 2010 at the dig at Links of Noltland in Westray. All three will go on display at the Westray Heritage Centre. [url=http://ww...
K-159 was a Project 627A "Kit" (NATO reporting name November class) nuclear-powered submarine of the Soviet Northern Fleet. On 28 August 2003, K-159 and her pontoons were manned by ten Russian sailors and taken under tow to Polyarny. That crew kept the pontoons pressurised and the subm...
The Moscow-Washington hotline is a system that allows direct communication between the leaders of the United States and Russia. Read more The hotline became operative August 30, 1963. Because the link was not...
Carl David Tolmé Runge (1856-1927) was a German mathematician, physicist, and spectroscopist. The crater Runge on the Moon is named after him. Read more
Captain Samuel Frederick Henry "Siffy" Thompson MC DFC was a World War I two-seater fighter ace who, in conjunction with his observer-gunners, was credited with 30 victories ( 18 destroyed, 12 'out of control'). He was shot down and killed in action on 27 September 1918. [url=http://en...
Mary Shelley (née Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin; 30 August 1797 - 1 February 1851) was an English novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, and travel writer, best known for her Gothic novel Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus (1818). Read more
More than half a billion years old, the fossils of the Burgess Shale preserves an intriguing glimpse of early life on Earth. They were first discovered in 1909 by Charles D. Walcott, then Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. This group of fossils takes its name from the Burgess Shale rock forma...
Bronze Age pottery sherd from Isles of Scilly could be earliest British depiction of a boat More than most archaeological periods from pre-history, Britain's Bronze Age is constantly being re-assessed as archaeologists and historians find new evidence of its richness and complexity. Now the bo...
The arXiv (pronounced "archive", as if the "X" were the Greek letter Chi, ) is an archive for electronic preprints of scientific papers in the fields of mathematics, physics, astronomy, computer science, quantitative biology, statistics, and quantitative finance which...
Meteorite 'size of golf ball' believed to have exploded over South Wales A meteorite the size of a golf ball exploded over South Wales last night, according to reports. At around 11.10pm, people across the UK reported seeing a bright light travelling across the skies which allegedly exploded near C...
Antarctic may host methane stores Large volumes of methane - a potent greenhouse gas - could be locked beneath the ice-covered regions of Antarctica, according to a new study. It says this methane could be released into the atmosphere as ice retreats, contributing to climate warming. The findings...
Astronomers' Stellafane Convention in Vermont Illuminates the Night On the other side of Precision Valley - once the home to a hub of American commerce and industry - there resides a steep hill known as Stellafane. Every August, stargazers and telescope builders converge upon that hill to camp, co...
Title: Magnetar-like Emission from the Young Pulsar in Kes 75 Authors: F. P. Gavriil, M. E. Gonzalez, E. V. Gotthelf, V. M. Kaspi, M. A. Livingstone, P. M. Woods We report detection of magnetar-like X-ray bursts from the young pulsar PSR J1846-0258, at the centre of the supernova remnant Kes 75. This...
Your experiment, 250 miles above Earth, for the world to see. What will you do? We're asking you to come up with a science experiment for space and upload a video explaining it to YouTube. If your idea wins, it will be performed on the International Space Station and live streamed on YouTube to the world...
