Rosalyn Sussman Yalow (July 19, 1921 - May 30, 2011) was an American medical physicist, and a co-winner of the 1977 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (together with Roger Guillemin and Andrew Schally) for development of the radioimmunoassay (RIA) technique. She was the second American woman t...
Title: Galaxy Zoo: Bulgeless Galaxies With Growing Black Holes Authors: B. D. Simmons, C. Lintott, K. Schawinski, E. C. Moran, A. Han, S. Kaviraj, K. L. Masters, C. M. Urry, K. W. Willett, S. P. Bamford, R. C. Nichol The growth of supermassive black holes appears to be driven by both galaxy mergers and...
Glacier in north Greenland breaks off huge iceberg An iceberg twice the size of Manhattan tore off one of Greenland's largest glaciers. For several years, scientists had been watching a long crack in the floating ice shelf of the northerly Petermann Glacier. On Monday, NASA satellites showed it ha...
45th Anniversary of the Explorer 35 launch in 1967. Explorer 35 was a spin-stabilised spacecraft instrumented for interplanetary studies, at lunar distances, of the interplanetary plasma, magnetic field, energetic particles, and solar X rays. It was launched into an elliptical lunar orbi...
In ancient Roman religion, the Lucaria was a festival of the grove (Latin lucus) held July 19 and 21. The original meaning of the ritual was obscure by the time of Varro (mid-1st century BC), who omits it in his list of festivals. The deity for whom it was celebrated is unknown; if a ritual for grove-clea...
The 1984 Lln Peninsula earthquake struck the Lln Peninsula in Gwynedd, north-west Wales on 19 July 1984 at 06:56 UTC (07:56 BST). It measured 5.4 on the Richter scale, and is the largest known onshore earthquake to occur in the UK since instrumental measurements began. Read more
Edward Charles Pickering (July 19, 1846-February 3, 1919) was an American astronomer and physicist, brother of William Henry Pickering. Along with Carl Vogel, Pickering discovered the first spectroscopic binary stars. He wrote Elements of Physical Manipulations (2 vol., 1873-76). [url=htt...
Orbital elements: 2009 YV6 Earth MOID = 0.1277 AU Epoch 2010 Jan. 4.0 TT = JDT 2455200.5 MPC M 335.11365 (2000.0) P Q n 0.32070985 Peri. 267.78638 -0.98231162 -0.02697251 a 2.1137868 Node 270.62968 +0.09919290 -0.91427756 e 0.5714256 Incl. 10.67932 -0.15882269 -0.40418935 P 3.07 H 21.4 G 0.15 U 9 [...
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Title: Casimir force measurements in Au-Au and Au-Si cavities at low temperature Authors: J. Laurent, H. Sellier, A. Mosset, S. Huant, J. Chevrier We report on measurements of the Casimir force in a sphere-plane geometry using a cryogenic force microscope to move the force probe in situ over diffe...
World's Oldest Purse Found - Studded With a Hundred Dog Teeth? The world's oldest purse may have been found in Germany - and its owner apparently had a sharp sense of Stone Age style. Excavators at a site near Leipzig uncovered more than a hundred dog teeth arranged close together in a grave dated to bet...
Nuclear fusion as a future abundant energy source would receive a boost if G8 leaders agree on the site for the world's first fusion test reactor, according to Carlo Rubbia and Robert Aymar , two nuclear scientists.
Carlo Rubbia is an Italian nuclear scientist who shared the 1984 Nobel physics p...
Europe freeze: Heavy snow across the continent Heavy snow has caused disruption across Europe, carpeting much of Italy to the south and Turkey to the east. The freeze that has swept south through the continent has caused at least 70 deaths, mainly in Ukraine and Poland. [ur...
