Title: New Hubble Space Telescope imaging of the counterparts to six ultraluminous X-ray sources Authors: T. P. Roberts (1), A. J. Levan (2), M. R. Goad (3) ((1) Durham University, (2) University of Warwick, (3) University of Leicester) We report the results of new Hubble Space Telescope imaging o...
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan is a 1982 American science fiction film released by Paramount Pictures. The film is the second feature based on the Star Trek science fiction franchise. Read more Ed ~ Release date Jun...
Title: A multisite photometric study of two unusual Beta Cep stars: the magnetic V2052 Oph and the massive rapid rotator V986 Oph Authors: G. Handler, R. R. Shobbrook, K. Uytterhoeven, M. Briquet, C. Neiner, T. Tshenye, B. Ngwato, H. van Winckel, E. Guggenberger, G. Raskin, E. Rodriguez, A. Mazumd...
Dennis Gabor CBE, FRS (original Hungarian name: Gábor Dénes; 5 June 1900 - 8 February 1979) was a Hungarian-British electrical engineer and physicist, most notable for inventing holography, for which he later received the 1971 Nobel Prize in Physics. Read more[video=http://www.youtube.com...
World Environment Day (WED) is celebrated every year on 5th June to raise global awareness of the need to take positive environmental action. It is run by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). Read more See also United Nations Conference on the Human Environment
Zooarchaeological Study Indicating Hominids Already Practiced Sophisticated Hunting Techniques in East Asia More than ten thousands of bone fragments were recovered from the Lingjing site, Henan Province during 2005 and 2006. By taking statistical analyses of the skeletal elements of the tw...
Physicists Close in on a Rare Particle-Decay Process In the biggest result of its kind in more than ten years, physicists have made the most sensitive measurements yet in a decades-long hunt for a hypothetical and rare process involving the radioactive decay of atomic nuclei. If discovered, the r...
Author and astronomer Dr. Michael E. Brown will present the Annual Science Lecture entitled "How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had it Coming" on Wednesday, April 15 at 5:30 p.m. in the Heimbold Visual Arts Centre at Sarah Lawrence College. Among his numerous scientific accomplishments, Dr....
The 1888 Río de la Plata earthquake occurred on June 5, 1888, measuring 5.5 on the Richter scale, and shook the upper Río de la Plata at 3:20 UTC-3. The epicentre was located at 34°36'0"S 57°53'59"W, 15 kilometres southwest of Colonia del Sacramento (Uruguay) and 42 kilometres east of Bue...
The first Apple II computers went on sale on June 5, 1977 with a MOS Technology 6502 microprocessor running at 1 MHz, 4 kB of RAM, an audio cassette interface for loading programs and storing data, and the Integer BASIC programming language built into the ROMs. Read more[video=http://www.youtube...
Bernardino Baldi (5 June 1553 - 10 October 1617) was an Italian mathematician and writer. He is said to have written upwards of a hundred different works, the chief part of which have remained unpublished. His various works show his abilities as a theologian, mathematician, geographer, antiqua...
Elena Lucrezia Cornaro Piscopia (5 June 1646 - 26 July 1684) was a Venetian philosopher of noble descent, and the first woman to receive a Doctor of Philosophy degree. At the age of seven she began the study of Latin and Greek under distinguished instructors, and soon became proficient in these langu...
NASA Small Explorer Mission Celebrates Ten Years and Forty Thousand X-Ray Flares On February 5, 2002, NASA launched what was then called the High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager (HESSI) into orbit. Renamed within months as the Ramaty High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager (RHESSI) after Reuv...
