The travelling garden gnome "After Kern the Gnome's visit to the South Pole, we got up to three invitations a minute on our web site for visits from all over the world" - James Nester from the Kern and Sohn company in Germany. Given the physics involved in this experiment, it gave the Gnome T...
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Logan's Run is a 1976 science fiction film based on the novel of the same name by William F. Nolan and George Clayton Johnson. It depicts a dystopian future society in which population and the consumption of resources are managed and maintained in equilibrium by the simple expediency of killing ever...
Space is a hostile environment for living things, but small organisms on the Expose-E experiment unit outside Europes Columbus ISS laboratory module have resisted the solar UV radiation, cosmic rays, vacuum and varying temperatures for 18 months. A certain lichen, Xanthoria elegans, seems to b...
Liu Yang, a 33-year-old former pilot, has been selected as China's first female taikonaut, taking her place as one of three members of China's Shenzhou-9 spacecraft crew. As the long-awaited threesome was unveiled on Friday, it was revealed that the crew also includes Jing Haipeng, who will becom...
Rain and mud cause travel chaos Music fans have had to sleep in their cars after traffic became gridlocked when heavy rain turned the Isle of Wight Festival site into a mudbath. Read more
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Epoch 2012 Mar. 14.0 TT = JDT 2456000.5 MPC
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US and Europe plan new spaceship Europe and the US could be building a spaceship together later this decade. It is one of the ideas being considered as Europe ponders the next evolution of its ATV orbital freighter. The sophisticated robotic vessel is used to transport up to 7.5 tonnes of supplies to t...
Les pièces du puzzle géologique méditerranéen réunies pour la première fois une carte terre/mer au 1/4 000.000 Que tous les passionnés de géologie, de cartographie, d'atlas et de Méditerranée se réjouissent. Ils pourront désormais satisfaire leur curiosité grâce à la nouvelle carte morpho-t...
Title: Disrupting Primordial Planet Signatures: The Close Encounter of Two Single-Planet Exosystems in the Galactic Disc Authors: Dimitri Veras, Nickolas Moeckel During their main sequence lifetimes, the majority of all Galactic Disc field stars must endure at least one stellar intruder pas...
Title: A modified "Type I migration" model for propeller moons in Saturn's rings Authors: Matthew S. Tiscareno We propose a mechanism for the observed non-keplerian motion (Tiscareno et al. 2010, ApJL) of "propeller" moons embedded in Saturn's rings. Our mechanism, in wh...
Scientists protest against prison sentence for Iranian student The 10-year prison sentence imposed on physics PhD student Omid Kokabee in Iran for conspiring with foreign countries has triggered protests by scientific organizations around the world. The Committee of Concerned Scientists i...
NEOShield to assess Earth defence NEOShield is a new international project that will assess the threat posed by Near Earth Objects (NEO) and look at the best possible solutions for dealing with a big asteroid or comet on a collision path with our planet. The effort is being led from the German space ag...
Why is it so difficult to motivate politicians to appropriate sufficient money to explore space? The current space exploration effort, which is supposed to return astronaut explorers to the Moon by 2020, was been short changed by President George W. Bush from the moment he proposed it in 2004. Indi...
Title: Activity restart - a key to explaining the morphology of J1211+743 Authors: Andrzej Marecki J1211+743 is a giant radio galaxy with a one-sided jet and two asymmetric lobes, one of which is of Fanaroff-Riley (FR) type II with a hotspot and the other is a diffuse relic devoid of a hotspot. The jet...
