Rare red helleborine orchid blooms in Cotswold woodland An "extremely rare and endangered" orchid which was once on the brink of extinction in the UK is blooming again in Gloucestershire. Red helleborine, Cephalanthera rubra, is normally found in Europe where it is classed as "v...
4.000 Tonnen mit der Kraft von Menschen und Tieren bewegen: HistorikerInnen begleiten Burgbau in Friesach Ganz im Stil mittelalterlicher Baumethoden wird in der Stadt Friesach eine Burg gebaut. Historikerinnen und Historiker begleiten das Projekt, das für eine Laufzeit von 30 Jahren geplant...
Genetic map of Britain goes on display A genetic map of the British people has been produced by Oxford University researchers. It forms the centrepiece of their display at the Royal Society's free Summer Science Exhibition, which opens today. The remarkable thing about the map is how much people sh...
The 29 - 65 metre wide asteroid 2008 YQ2 will make a close pass (41.1 lunar distances, 0.1057 AU), travelling at 15.60 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 3rd July, 2012 @ 11:28 UT ±13:38. See moreThe Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.00256 A...
Soviet N-1 rocket explosion in 1969. Vehicle serial number 5L - Zond L1S-2 for Moon flyby - At liftoff a loose bolt was ingested into a fuel pump, which failed. After detecting the inoperative fuel pump, the automatic engine control shut...
Title: 4MOST - 4-metre Multi-Object Spectroscopic Telescope Authors: Roelof S. de Jong, Olga Bellido-Tirado, Cristina Chiappini, Eric Depagne, Roger Haynes, Diane Johl, Olivier Schnurr, Axel Schwope, Jakob Walcher, Frank Dionies, Dionne Haynes, Andreas Kelz, Francisco S. Kitaura, Georg L...
The Summer Science Exhibition in London is an annual display of the most exciting cutting-edge science and technology in the UK. 3 - 8 July, 2012 Read more
Harrison Hagan "Jack" Schmitt (born July 3, 1935) is an American geologist, a former NASA astronaut, University Professor and a U.S. Senator for one term. He is the twelfth and last of the Apollo astronauts to arrive and set foot on the Moon, as crewmate Eugene Cernan exited the Apollo Lun...
The return of the Stone of Destiny to Scotland — one of the final acts of the Major government — was the brainchild of the 10-year-old daughter of the then Scottish secretary, Michael Forsyth, it has been revealed.
The decision — wide...
The last pair of Great Auks, Pinguinus impennis, found incubating an egg, was killed on the island of Eldey on 3 July 1844, with Jón Brandsson and Sigurğur Ísleifsson strangling the adults and Ketill Ketilsson smashing the egg with his boot. Read more [video=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQb...
In 2002, Steve Fossett became the first person to fly around the world alone, nonstop, in any kind of aircraft. He launched the 10-story high balloon Spirit of Freedom from Northam, Western Australia, on June 19, 2002 and returned to Australia on July 3, 2002, subsequently landing in Queensland. Du...
Saharon Shelah (July 3, 1945 - ) is an Israeli mathematician. He is a professor of mathematics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Rutgers University in New Jersey. Read more
Vertical ship marks 50 years at sea Researchers have been showing off a 355 ft vertical ship in the Pacific Ocean, as it marks its 50th birthday. FLIP, or Floating Instrument Platform, is owned by the US Navy, and flips from horizontal to a vertical position by pumping 700 tonnes of seawater into the 'h...
