Best known for creating two of the world's most ground-breaking video games, Doom and Quake, John Carmack is quietly breaking ground in another nascent field: commercial rocketry.
Nearly six years ago, Carmack founded Texas-based Armadillo Aerospace to build next-generation vehicles fo...
Autosub surveys deep ocean floor off Land's End A British robotic sub has photographed a vast tract of deep ocean floor some 560km southwest of Land's End. The images will be stitched together to provide a seamless view of what is happening on the seabed over an area the size of a city. The 4,800m-deep s...
Towards a new educational CubeSat initiative ESA's Education Office is inviting the CubeSat community to send their notifications of interest for a new initiative involving the development of educational picosatellites and the provision of deployers and launch services. The call closes on 7 S...
The 3,600 year old Sky Disk of Nebra is the world's oldest image of the cosmos.
It caused a world-wide sensation when it was brought to the attention of the German public in 2002, having been discovered at Mittelberg in the state of Saxony-Anhalt two years earlier.
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Title: Identification of a new relatively old star cluster in the Small Magellanic Cloud Authors: Andrés E. Piatti We present results on the age and metallicity estimates of the astonishingly unstudied SMC cluster ESO 51-SC09, from CCD BVI photometry obtained at the ESO NTT with the EMMI attached...
Title: Inner edges of compact debris disks around metal-rich white dwarfs Authors: Roman R. Rafikov, Jose A. Garmilla (Princeton) A number of metal-rich white dwarfs (WDs) are known to host compact, dense particle disks, which are thought to be responsible for metal pollution of these stars. In m...
It's back... and better than ever! The new Commodore 64 is a modern functional PC as close to the original in design as humanly possible. It houses a modern mini-ITX PC motherboard which comes in two configurations. The C64x Ultimate (C64x-UL) has a Dual Core 525 Atom processor and the an nVidia ION2 g...
Meteorite craters in Australia As one of the oldest and least geologically disturbed continents, Australia has a rich record of meteorite craters. Of 176 confirmed impacts worldwide, our country bears the pockmarks of 30 - and about 20 others await confirmation. Indeed, as you read this, another...
Asteroid named after UC San Diego professor An asteroid located about 225 million miles from Earth has been named in honor of Y.C. Fung, an emeritus professor at UC San Diego who is often called the "father of biomechanics." The designation was made by the International Astronomical Uni...
Space Cowboys is a 2000 science fiction film directed by Clint Eastwood. Eastwood also stars in the film alongside Tommy Lee Jones, Donald Sutherland, and James Garner as four older "ex-test pilots" who are sent into space to repair an old Soviet satellite. Read more [video=http://www...
The Nanchang Uprising (August 1, 1927) was the first major Kuomintang-Communist engagement of the Chinese Civil War, begun by the Communists to counter the anti-communist purges by the Nationalist Party of China. Read more
Douglas Dean Osheroff (born August 1, 1945) is an American physicist known for his work in experimental condensed matter physics, in particular for his co-discovery of superfluidity in Helium-3. For his contributions he shared the 1996 Nobel Prize in Physics along with David Lee and Robert C. Ric...
Chemistry experiments of yesterday recreated in lab Portable chemistry sets were first used in the 18th century, and over the years have influenced generations of budding scientists. But sales started declining in the 1970s, due partly to health and safety concerns which restricted the chemica...
An ATLAS 5 CENTAUR rocket body that was launched on the 4th May, 2012, from Cape Canaveral, Florida, for the classified AEHF 2 (USA 235) satellite mission is predicted to re-enter the Earths atmosphere on the 31st July 2012 @ 19:00 GMT ą 48 hours.ATLAS 5 CENTAUR RB
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