Tiny fossil teeth re-write rodent record The oldest rodent fossils yet found in South America have been unearthed along the Ucayali River near Contamana, Peru. The specimens comprise the tiny teeth of mouse-sized and rat-sized animals that lived at least 41 million years ago. This makes the fossi...
Caltech Event Marks 75th Anniversary of JPL Rocket Tests The 75th anniversary of the first rocket experiments at the site that became NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., will be celebrated with a special free, public screening of the new documentary, "The American Rocket...
America panics as Welles says: Mars attacks! Its gone down in history as The Night The Martians Came that Sunday evening 70 years ago this week when Halloween horror hit America as never before, when thousands fled their homes in terror, some even trying to kill themselves, as invaders from the Red Pl...
John Griggs Thompson (born October 13, 1932, in Ottawa, Kansas, USA) is a mathematician at the University of Florida noted for his work in the field of finite groups. Read more
Britain's Lovell Telescope will mark 50 year anniversary since the 76-metre University of Manchester dish, based in Jodrell Bank, was built in 1957. The radio telescope was the first to detect signals from the first satellite, Sputnik 1. The Lovell Telescope Webcam at Jodrell Bank Observato...
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NASA Releases New Interactive Space Communications Game NASA has released an interactive, educational video game called NetworKing that depicts how the Space Communication and Navigation (SCaN) network operates. The release of the video game coincides with the close of World Space Week, Oct...
Hurricane Jova (10E) is forecast to make landfall in Mexico probability for CAT 1 or above is 40% in about 33 hours probability for TS is 75% in about 21 hours
Russian spacecraft landed on moon hours before Americans A previously unheard recording of a Russian spacecraft attempting to beat NASA's Apollo 11 in 1969's race to the moon has been released. In July 1969, the telescopes at the Jodrell Bank Observatory, in Cheshire, were tracking the Americans...
Almost 28 years ago, a young (27) and still overdrawn Douglas Adams was poised on the brink of fame. The first radio series of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy had been released ("Escaped," was more the word, according to Douglas) and largely ignored in a late night slot on BBC Radio 4. I...
Astrophysicists Find Evidence of Black Holes Destruction of Stars Astrophysicists have found evidence of black holes destroying stars, a long-sought phenomenon that provides a new window into general relativity. The research, reported in the latest issue of the Astrophysical Journal, also...
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