In one of his final interviews as director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Mohamed ElBaradei told the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists - in its September/October issue - that the IAEA needs to receive better satellite imagery. [url=http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Mi...
BetaBatt is a Houston-based company in the business of developing long-lasting reliable power sources. The Company has researched and patented a novel 3D energy conversion architecture named the DECTM Cell, based on nano-scale porous silicon. The DECTM Cell is able to convert d...
Physicists Measure Elusive 'Persistent Current' That Flows Forever Physicists at Yale University have made the first definitive measurements of "persistent current," a small but perpetual electric current that flows naturally through tiny rings of metal wire even without an exte...
The rooftop of a Paris skyscraper is to be transformed into a cosmic-ray laboratory in an unusual week-long experiment due to start on Saturday. Read more
Title: The White Dwarfs within 20 Parsecs of the Sun: Kinematics and Statistics Authors: Edward M. Sion, Jay B. Holberg, Terry D. Oswalt, George P. McCook, Richard Wasatonic We present the kinematical properties, distribution of spectroscopic subtypes, stellar population subcomponents of th...
Title: A Suzaku Observation of NGC 4593: Illuminating the Truncated Disk Authors: A. Markowitz (1), J. N. Reeves (2) We report results from a 2007 Suzaku observation of the Seyfert 1 AGN NGC 4593. The narrow Fe K alpha emission line has a FWHM width ~4000 km/s, indicating emission from >~ 5000 Rg. T...
Smithsonian opens observatory on National Mall The Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum has opened a new Public Observatory that contains a 16-inch, 3,000-pound Boller and Chivens telescope, on loan from the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory. Through this powerful telescope, mu...
"Bonner Durchmusterungen - Argelander und sein astronomisches Erbe" im Deutschen Museum Bonn vom 8. Oktober 2009 bis zum 5. April 2010 mit Veranstaltungsprogramm zur Ausstellung in Kooperation mit dem Argelander-Institut für Astronomie der Universität Bonn, dem Max-Planck-Ins...
Who wants to be India's first woman astronaut? The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is offering an opportunity for women to be a part of the first Indian human flight into space, scheduled for 2014. They could be among the first 2-member crew that ISRO sends up into space. The astronauts wil...
Pedro Elias Zadunaisky, an Argentine astronomer and mathematician whose calculations helped determine the orbit of Saturns outermost moon, Phoebe, as well as Halleys Comet, died Wednesday. He was 91. In 2000, an asteroid discovered by a team of his former students was named 4617 Zadunaisky in hi...
Kashmir University to have Astronomy Club Vice Chancellor (VC) of Kashmir University (KU), Prof Riyaz Punjabi has announced the establishment of an Astronomy Club at Kashmir University. Read more
A spectacular 800-million-pixel wide digital image of night sky as seen from Earth, has just been released online. The 360-degree starscape, covering the entire celestial sphere, reveals the cosmic landscape that surrounds our tiny blue planet. This composite image was stitched together usin...
Typhoon Melor is forecast to make landfall in the Northern Mariana Islands probability for CAT 1 or above is 80% in about 30 hours probability for TS is 100% in about 30 hours
