New Museum Galileo to open to the public in June The Museo di Storia della Scienza (Museum of the History of Science) has undergone a two-year renovation involving a complete redesign of its exhibition areas and displays. Today, it reopens under the new name of Museo Galileo, the Galileo Museum. The...
San Antonio has a rich aviation and space heritage. Nowhere was that heritage more visible than at the Challenger Learning Centre of San Antonio, formerly located at Brooks City-Base. The San Antonio centre, one of more than 40 around the world, is the outgrowth of an effort by the families of the sev...
Experimental roboticist Marty Vona wont be flying to the moon. But his National Science Foundation-funded work on a robotic rover could help astronauts explore the big rock in the sky on a lunar mission within the next decade. Vona, an assistant professor of computer and information science, coll...
The Fifie is a design of sailing boat developed on the east coast of Scotland. It was used by Scottish fishermen from the 1850s until well into the 20th century. These boats were mainly used to fish for herring using drift nets, and along with other designs of boat were known as herring drifters. [url=h...
Hydrogen fluoride, found common in our galaxy A peculiar chemical compound has been found to be ubiquitous in interstellar gas clouds throughout our Milky Way galaxy and may give scientists a better way to track hydrogen across the universe. The compound, called hydrogen fluoride, was detected b...
Title: Experiments on the Random Packing of Tetrahedral Dice Authors: Alexander Jaoshvili, Andria Esakia, Massimo Porrati, and Paul M. Chaikin Tetrahedra may be the ultimate frustrating, disordered glass forming units. Our experiments on tetrahedral dice indicate the densest, most disorde...
The strongest animal in the world The world's strongest animal, the copepod, is barely 1 mm long.It shows that copepods - in relation to their size - are more than 10 times as strong as has been previously documented for any other animal. The worlds strongest animal, the copepod, is barely 1 mm long. It...
Manama Qatar is set to launch its first satellite at the end of 2012 to provide superior coverage across the Middle East, North Africa and Central Asia. The $300 million (Dh1.1 billion) deal to launch and operate the satellite, named Eshail, was signed in Doha by Qatar's Supreme Council of Informati...
The Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope will observe (at 4.8 GHz) the position of the Type Ibc supernova 2010br, at 14.34 UT, 11th May 11 to 2.31 UT 12th May.
The camera that captured the most iconic images from Hubble Space Telescope arrived at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory on Tuesday, according to JPL officials. The baby grand piano-sized camera is on temporary loan from the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum in Washington. [url=http://www.pasaden...
All it took was a call to the Astronomy department at the University of Denver to solve the mystery of a strange light seen in the sky over Colorado last weekend. No, it was not a UFO. But it was definitely out of this world. "That's Venus," DU Physics and Astronomy professor Jennifer Hoffman...
The 25 - 55 metre wide asteroid 2007 SO6 will make a close pass (77.3 lunar distances, 0.1986 AU), travelling at 11.49 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 3rd October, 2010. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the dist...
JCU researcher seeks inspiration in the stars More than 1000 years before NASA's Hubble Space Telescope was sent into orbit to study the stars, a Muslim Persian astronomer had them thoroughly mapped. In world-first, a James Cook University PhD student has translated an ancient Arabic manuscript...
Reith Lectures 2010 Come to Cardiff National Museum Cardiff will host the second in a series of four Reith Lectures on Thursday 13 May, to be broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and BBC World Service. Martin Rees - President of the Royal Society, Astronomer Royal and Master of Trinity College, Cambridge - will de...
