The University of Nottinghams School of Physics and Astronomy is celebrating a bumper crop of top new research brains in its Particle Theory Group after receiving a major new grant and an unprecedented number of postdoctoral researchers on fellowships from around the world. [url=http://www.no...
On November 17th, at San Francisco's St. Francis Yacht Club, Liquid Robotics launched four Wave Gliders on a record-setting journey across the Pacific Ocean - the longest distance ever attempted by an unmanned ocean vehicle. The purpose of this unprecedented Pacific crossing is to foster new sci...
UA geologist gets own mineral A mineral found in the Yukon has been named for University of Arizona geologist Bob Downs by his former graduate students. The mineral is colourless, transparent and brittle - nothing like her former professor, said Kimberly Tait of the Royal Ontario Museum. Tait is th...
The short period cataclysmic variable BW Sculptoris is in outburst. Date: 21st October, 2011 Magnitude range: 9.6 - 16.5 Type: WZ Sge-type dwarf nova Position (J2000): R.A. 23 53 00.86 | Dec. -38° 51' 46.6''
Dinosaur Isle fossil hunt reckless Tonnes of rock has been removed from a Jurassic site on Skye in what has been described as one of Scotland's most reckless acts of fossil collecting. Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH) said rock was dug away from cliffs near Bearreraig Bay in an apparent organised sea...
Title: Bayesian approach to cyclic activity of CF Oct Authors: Ana P. Borisova, Valeri V. Hambaryan, John L. Innis Bayesian statistical methods of Gregory-Loredo and the Bretthorst generalisation of the Lomb-Scargle periodogram have been applied for studying activity cycles of the early K-ty...
Title: Reinstating the M31 X-ray system RX J0042.3+4115 as a black hole X-ray binary, and compelling evidence for an extended corona Authors: R. Barnard, M. R. Garcia, S. S. Murray The M31 X-ray source RX J0042.3+4115 was originally identified as a black hole binary because it displayed character...
Footage shows central Bolivia tornado A tornado tore metal sheeting from roofs, demolished buildings and uprooted trees in the city of Cochabamba in central Bolivia on Wednesday. Read more [video=http://www.youtu...
US Army tests weapon 5 times faster than sound The US Army conducted its first flight test of a new weapon capable of travelling five times the speed of sound. The Army launched the Advanced Hypersonic Weapon from the military's Pacific Missile Range Facility on Kauai at about 1:30 am on Sunday. [url=...
Inverness firm hands over Spanish wave power plant An Inverness-based marine energy company has put what has been described as the world's first wave power plant into commercial operation. Read more
Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett, Baron Blackett OM CH FRS (18 November 1897 - 13 July 1974) was an English experimental physicist known for his work on cloud chambers, cosmic rays, and paleomagnetism. Read more
Alan Bartlett Shepard, Jr. (November 18, 1923 - July 21, 1998) was an American naval aviator, test pilot, flag officer, and NASA astronaut who in 1961 became the second person, and the first American, in space. Ten years later, he commanded the Apollo 14 mission, and became the fifth person to walk on...
Four transits of Venus occurred during the Babylonian Era, and the times of mid-transit in UT are as follows 1641 BC May 20 at 19:48 Universal Time 1520 BC November 20 at 01:17 1512 BC November 18 at 14:23 1406 BC May 23 at 07:18 Could any of these be seen? In the British journal 'Monthly Notices of the Roya...
George Bogdan Kistiakowsky (November 18, 1900 - December 7, 1982) was a Ukrainian-American chemistry professor at Harvard who participated in the Manhattan Project and later served as President Eisenhower's Science Advisor. Read more
