Bruno Pontecorvo (Marina di Pisa, Italy, August 22, 1913 - Dubna, Russia, September 24, 1993) was an Italian-born nuclear physicist, an early assistant of Enrico Fermi and then the author of numerous studies in high energy physics, especially on neutrinos. According to Oleg Gordievsky (the high...
Joseph Albert "Joe" Walker (20 February 1921 - 8 June 1966) was an American test pilot and a NASA astronaut. In 1963, Walker made two X-15 flights beyond 100 kilometres - the edge of space - Flight 90 (19 July 1963; 106 km) and Flight 91 (22 August 1963; 108 km). Walker was the first US civilian...
The precise location of one of Britain's most famous lost battlefields has been revealed. The latest discoveries pinpoint the exact location of Bosworth Battlefield, where Henry Tudor and King Richard III clashed on 22nd August 1485, and shed new light on the way the battle was fought and where Kin...
The New Horizons probe, is expected to reach Pluto in 2015, but before the rendezvous there is another encounter with a Kuiper belt object - a celestial body with the unofficial designation VNH0004. It is expected that in January 2015, the spacecraft will fly about 75 million from VNH0004. The celes...
Title: The polar ring galaxy AM 2040-620 and its possible companion Authors: Priscila Freitas-Lemes, Irapuan Rodrigues, Maximiliano Faśndez-Abans Polar ring galaxies (PRGs) are peculiar systems where a gas-rich, nearly polar ring surrounds a host galaxy. They are the result of galaxy intera...
Title: Galaxy-Mass Correlations on 10 Mpc Scales in the Deep Lens Survey Authors: Ami Choi, J. Anthony Tyson, Chris B. Morrison, M. James Jee, Samuel J. Schmidt, Vera E. Margoniner, David M. Wittman We examine the projected correlation of galaxies with mass from small scales (<few hundred kpc)...
Title: The Neptune-Sized Circumbinary Planet Kepler-38b Authors: Jerome A. Orosz, William F. Welsh, Joshua A. Carter, Erik Brugamyer, Lars A. Buchhave, William D. Cochran, Michael Endl, Eric B. Ford, Phillip MacQueen, Donald R. Short, Guillermo Torres, Gur Windmiller, Eric Agol, Thomas Barc...
Title: A long-period massive planet around HD106515A Authors: S. Desidera, R. Gratton, E. Carolo, A.F. Martinez Fiorenzano, M. Endl, D. Mesa, M. Cecconi, R. Claudi, R. Cosentino, S. Scuderi, A. Sozzetti, A. Zurlo We have performed RV monitoring of the components of the binary system HD 106515 ove...
Mont Saint Michel to be restored One of the biggest tourist attractions in France, Mont Saint Michel, is being restored. The giant granite rock is situated a kilometre off the Normandy coast Read more
Title: Death and Dying in the Neolithic Near East Authors: Karina Croucher Drawing on recent excavations and earlier archive and published fieldwork, Croucher provides an overview and introduction to the period, presenting new interpretations of the archaeological evidence and in-depth an...
Lancaster University compiling best Aurora Borealis sites Space physicists are putting together a list of the best places in the UK where people could photograph the Aurora Borealis. Lancaster University's AuroraWatch team has sought information on where shots of the Northern Lights could be f...
Oldest known planets in Universe found Astronomers have discovered the oldest known planets from the early days of the Universe, orbiting a star that is almost on our cosmic doorstep. The ancient solar system is thought to have formed around 12.8 billion years ago, just a few hundred million years...
