Community College Scholars Selected to Design Rovers Community college students will have the chance to design robotic rovers in cooperation with NASA. Ninety-two students from schools in 24 states have been selected to travel to a NASA centre, including NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasa...
A new type of dark matter made up of collections of atoms that form balls up to 20 centimetres in size has been predicted by two theorists in Scotland and Denmark. The balls, which could weigh about 10¹¹ kilograms each, would be hard to detect but may exist inside heavy stars. The physicists think the ba...
The 1985 Santiago earthquake was a seismic movement registered on 3 March 1985 at 22:47 UTC (19:47 local time). Its epicentre was located on the south coasts of Valparaķso Region, Chile, close to the beach of Algarrobo. It had a magnitude of...
Georg Ferdinand Ludwig Philipp Cantor (March 3 [O.S. February 19] 1845 - January 6, 1918) was a German mathematician, best known as the inventor of set theory, which has become a fundamental theory in mathematics. Read more
DeepSkyStacker is a freeware for astrophotographers that simplifies all the pre-processing steps of deep sky pictures. * Registering * Stacking * Simple post-stacking processes to quickly view the final result. * Saving the resulting image to a TIFF or FITS file...
Logitech QuickCam 3000Technical DetailsChip Type: CCD Sony ICX098AKChip type: 1/4" CCD 5.6µm x5.6µmLight sensitivity: less than 1 LUX Frames Per Second: Up to 30 frames per secondIntegrated Microphone: YesMaximum Pixel (in Megapixel): 0.31Platform: PC / MacPort Type: USBResolut...
Sameera Moussa (March 3, 1917-August 5, 1952) was an Egyptian nuclear scientist who held a doctorate in atomic radiation and worked to make the medical use of nuclear technology affordable to all. She organized the Atomic Energy for Peace Conference and sponsored a call for setting an internation...
Title: How does the Hubble Sphere limit our view of the Universe Authors: Geraint F. Lewis, Pim van Oirschot It has recently been claimed that the Hubble Sphere represents a previously unknown limit to our view of the universe, with light we detect today coming from a proper distance less than this &q...
Amoeba may offer key clue to photosynthetic evolution The major difference between plant and animal cells is the photosynthetic process, which converts light energy into chemical energy. When light isnt available, energy is generated by breaking down carbohydrates and sugars, just as it is in a...
Action Alert: Stop WWF's Betrayal of the Earth's Last Ancient Forests WWF is the world's largest ancient forest logging apologist; actively promoting questionable "certified, sustainable" logging in Guyana, Russia and elsewhere -- and may be the World's greatest threat facing end...
Title: The spin and orbit of the newly discovered pulsar IGR J17480-2446 Authors: A. Papitto (Univ.Cagliari), A.D'Ai' (Univ.Palermo), S.Motta (INAF-OAB), A.Riggio (INAF-OAC), L.Burderi (Univ.Cagliari), T.Di Salvo (Univ.Palermo), T.Belloni (INAF-OAB) We present an analysis of the spin a...
Title: Dark matter distribution in the merging cluster Abell 2163 Authors: G. Soucail The cluster Abell 2163 is a merging system of several subclusters with complex dynamics. It presents exceptional X-rays properties (high temperature and luminosity), suggesting that it is a very massive clus...
