Title: FIRST, a fibred aperture masking instrument. I. First on-sky test results Authors: E. Huby, G. Perrin, F. Marchis, S. Lacour, T. Kotani, G. Duchêne, E. Choquet, E. L. Gates, J. M. Woillez, O. Lai, P. Fédou, C. Collin, F. Chapron, V. Arslanyan, K. J. Burns In this paper we present the first on-sk...
Title: CO observations of water-maser post-AGB stars and detection of a high-velocity outflow in IRAS 15452-5459 Authors: L. Cerrigone (1), K. M. Menten (2), T. Kaminski (2) ((1) Centro de Astrobiologia, CSIC-INTA, Torrejon de Ardoz, Spain, (2) Max-Planck-Institut fuer Radioastronomie, Bon...
Joseph Stefan (24 March 1835 - 7 January 1893) was a Carinthian Slovene physicist, mathematician, and poet of Austrian citizenship. He published nearly 80 scientific articles, mostly in the Bulletins of the Vienna Academy of Sciences, and he is best known for originating a physical power law in 18...
Alexandre-Edmond Becquerel (24 March 1820 - 11 May 1891), known as Edmond Becquerel, was a French physicist who studied the solar spectrum, magnetism, electricity, and optics. He is known for his work in luminescence and phosphorescence. Read more
Sergey Ivanovich Vavilov (24 March [O.S. 12 March] 1891 - January 25, 1951) was a Soviet physicist, the President of the USSR Academy of Sciences from July 1945 until his death. Read more
Wilhelm Heinrich Walter Baade (March 24, 1893 - June 25, 1960) was a German astronomer who worked in the USA from 1931 to 1959. He took advantage of wartime blackout conditions during World War II, which reduced light pollution at Mount Wilson Observatory, to resolve stars in the center of the Androm...
The 18th century astronomy community's reluctance to accept the accuracy of John Harrison's clocks is not one of the highs of scientific research. John Harrison (March 24, 1693March 24, 1776) was an English clockmaker who revolutioni...
Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton, CVO, OBE (15 February 1874 - 5 January 1922) was an Anglo-Irish polar explorer, one of the principal figures of the period known as the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration. Read more Shackleton's Antarctic Adventure (2001) [video=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=...
Title: Collider signatures of the SO(5) x U(1) gauge-Higgs unification Authors: Yutaka Hosotani, Minoru Tanaka, Nobuhiro Uekusa Collider signatures of the SO(5) x U(1) gauge-Higgs unification model in the Randall-Sundrum warped space are explored. Gauge couplings of quarks and leptons rece...
A paper airplane is to be launched from the International Space Station to mark a new dawn in space travel. The eight inch plane is the result of an unlikely collaboration between a Japanese professor of aerospace engineering and origami masters to design a novel kind of spacecraft. [url=http://w...
Newly Discovered Icelandic Current Could Change North Atlantic Climate Picture An international team of researchers, including physical oceanographers from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), has confirmed the presence of a deep-reaching ocean circulation system off Icelan...
Sir Norman Robert Pogson KBE (March 23, 1829 in Nottingham - June 23, 1891 in Chennai, India) was an English astronomer. His most notable contribution was to note that in the stellar magnitude system introduced by the Greek astronomer Hipparchus, stars of the first magnitude were a hundred times as...
Henry Beam Piper (March 23, 1904 - c. November 6, 1964) was an American science fiction author. He wrote many short stories and several novels. He is best known for his extensive Terro-Human Future History series of stories and a shorter series of "Paratime" alternate history tales. Rea...
