A.I. Artificial Intelligence, also known as A.I., is a 2001 science fiction drama film directed, produced and co-written by Steven Spielberg. Based on Brian Aldiss' short story "Super-Toys Last All Summer Long", the film stars Haley Joel Osment, Frances O'Connor, Jude Law, Sam Robar...
Soyuz Light Rocket Undergoes Bench Test as Plesetsk Prepares for Angara Two Russian companies moved forward over the past week on development of a pair of new launch vehicles. TsSKB-Progress conducted a major test of the new light-class Soyuz-2-1c booster while Khrunichev shipped Angara compon...
The US space agency Nasa announced Wednesday it has cancelled the August research mission it had hoped to base at U-tapao airbase after the government refused to endorse the project. The official announcement, on the Nasa website early Thursday Thailand time, said: "Nasa cancelled the SEAC...
Title: VLTI/AMBER observations of the binary B[e] supergiant HD 327083 Authors: H.E. Wheelwright, W.J. de Wit, R.D. Oudmaijer, J.S. Vink HD 327083 is a luminous B type star which exhibits emission lines and an infrared excess and is therefore classified as a supergiant B[e] star. In addition, the...
Title: Simulating the Toothbrush: Evidence for a triple merger of galaxy clusters Authors: M. Bruggen (1), R.J. van Weeren (2 and 3), H.J.A. Rottgering (2) ((1) University of Hamburg, (2) Sterrewacht Leiden (3) ASTRON) The newly discovered galaxy cluster 1RXS J0603.3+4214 hosts a 1.9 Mpc long, b...
New Way of Probing Exoplanet Atmospheres For the first time a clever new technique has allowed astronomers to study the atmosphere of an exoplanet in detail - even though it does not pass in front of its parent star. An international team has used ESO's Very Large Telescope to directly catch the fain...
Imagine Publishing is proud to announce the launch of All About Space, which will be available in print and digital formats from 28 June. Packed full of cosmic content, All About Space will delve into the wonders of space exploration, astronomy and cosmic science every month, providing in-depth kn...
Open Days show Oxford at its most friendly Thousands of prospective applicants and their families are visiting Oxford on 27 and 28 June as Oxford's colleges and departments open their doors. The Open Days are held each year to allow those interested in applying to the University to visit Oxford and...
The most devastating earthquake to strike Hungary, estimated at 6.3 on the Richter scale, hit Komárom on June 28, 1763. It caused 63 deaths and heavily damaged buildings. Read more Until now, in Hungary earthquakes greater than M=6 Richter-magnitude, or 9° Mercalli intensity have not been noted,...
The Andromeda Breakthrough was a 1962 sequel to the popular BBC TV science fiction serial 'A for Andromeda', again written by Fred Hoyle and John Elliot. Kidnapped by Intel, John Fleming (Peter Halliday) the hero of the first serial, and Andromeda the artificially constructed human (this time pla...
Klaus von Klitzing (28 June 1943 in Schroda) is a German physicist known for discovery of the integer quantum Hall Effect, for which he was awarded the 1985 Nobel Prize in Physics. The von Klitzing constant, RK = h/e² = 25,812.807449(86) omega, is named in honour of von Klitzing's discovery of the qu...
Maria Goeppert-Mayer (June 28, 1906 - February 20, 1972) was a German-born American theoretical physicist, and Nobel laureate in Physics for proposing the nuclear shell model of the atomic nucleus. She is the second female laureate in physics, after Marie Curie. Read more[video=http://www.y...
Carl Friedrich Freiherr von Weizsäcker (June 28, 1912 - April 28, 2007) was a German physicist and philosopher. He was the longest-living member of the research team which performed nuclear research in Germany during the Second World War, under Werner Heisenberg's leadership. There is ongoing d...
The mathematical constant pi is under threat from a group of detractors who will be marking "Tau Day" on Tuesday. Tau Day revellers suggest a constant called tau should take its place: twice as large as pi, or about 6.28 - hence the 28 June celebration. Tau proponents say that for many probl...
The 77 - 170 metre wide asteroid 2004 HB39 will make a close pass (62.5 lunar distances, 0.1605 AU), travelling at 8.88 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 20th June, 2012 @ 09:18 UT ±16:08. See moreThe Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.0025...
