Epicurus (Samos, 341 BCE - Athens, 270 BCE; 72 years) was an ancient Greek philosopher and the founder of the school of philosophy called Epicureanism. Only a few fragments and letters remain of Epicurus's 300 written works. Much of what is known about Epicurean philosophy derives from later follo...
Millions of people today carry around pocket-sized music players capable of holding thousands of songs, thanks to the discovery 20 years ago of a phenomenon known as the "giant magnetoresistance effect," which made it possible to pack more data onto smaller and smaller hard drives. No...
A possible magnitude 8.5 supernova has been discovered on the 19th May, 2009, in the galaxy M51 in the constellation Canes Venatici. The supernova is located 61 East and 146 South from the center of the galaxy. Position(2000): RA 13 30 24, Dec +47 06 18
A pilot plant inaugurated yesterday in Barcelona, Spain, is testing regenerative life support system technologies that could one day recycle waste products and supply essential food, water and oxygen to humans living on the surface of the Moon or Mars. MELiSSA, short for Micro-Ecological Life S...
The 1800 - 3900 metre wide asteroid 2003 QO104 will make a close pass (36.8 Lunar Distances, 0.0945 AU), travelling at 10.42 km/s, to the Earth-Moon system on the 9th June, 2009. At closest approach the asteroid will reach magnitude 14. [url=http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=143651;orb=...
NOAA's Fisheries Service scientists and their partners have launched an unmanned aircraft to mount the vehicles first search for ice seals at the southern edge of the Bering Sea pack ice during the Arctic spring, in an effort to learn more about these remotely located species. On May 13, the NOAA res...
Age Of The Dinosaur exhibition Take a trip back in time to discover the age of the dinosaurs with our exciting hands-on exhibition for the summer. Come face to face with some life sized models of these prehistoric monsters, but beware some there may be some surprises round the corner... the Utahrapto...
Orbital elements: 2009 KO4 Earth MOID = 0.0792 AU Epoch 2009 June 18.0 TT = JDT 2455000.5 MPC M 3.39204 (2000.0) P Q n 0.25461195 Peri. 125.48120 -0.28281885 +0.95876402 a 2.4653781 Node 128.06603 -0.89115011 -0.25184503 e 0.5587294 Incl. 2.03950 -0.35477454 -0.13170285 P 3.87 H 24.3 G 0.15 U 7 [ur...
The 16 - 36 metre wide asteroid 2004 FY15 will make a close pass (36.0 Lunar Distances, 0.0924 AU), travelling at 10.42km/s, to the Earth-Moon system on the 6th June, 2009. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance...
Behind an unmarked door in the Lyme-Old Lyme High School auditorium, up two spiral staircases and shrouded in darkness sits an aluminium dome. It's something you don't often see in a public school - an observatory that rotates on a motor and houses a Meade 12.5-inch reflecting telescope that, accor...
Extra-solar planets are the theme of StarConn, an all-day convention and astronomy celebration Saturday at Wesleyan's Exley Science Centre. The event is an outreach effort presented by the Astronomical Society of Greater Hartford with the help of the university. For years, it was an annual even...
What appears to be a Neolithic chambered tomb has been unearthed on the outskirts of Kirkwall. The underground structure was discovered by John Hourie, Heathfield, St Ola, while ploughing. He reported it to his neighbour, archaeologist Caroline Wickham Jones, who contacted the county archaeol...
DMCii satellite imaging monitors Indonesian forests DMC International Imaging Ltd (DMCii) has won a 100,000 contract from the European Space Agency (ESA) to demonstrate the value of its coordinated multi-satellite optical imagery for tropical forest monitoring in Indonesia. [url=http://w...
Prof Verma was referring to the incident of May 28, when a 1 kg stone resembling a meteorite fell down from the sky about 12 noon and left the people of the Karimatti hamlet in Hamirpur district amazed and puzzled. The stone which is ten inches in length and five inches in width was put in water to bring dow...
Title: The blazar S5 0014+813: a real or apparent monster? Authors: G. Ghisellini (1), L. Foschini (1), M. Volonteri (2), G. Ghirlanda (1), F. Haardt (3), D. Burlon (4), F. Tavecchio (1) ((1) INAF-OABrera, Italy, (2) Univ. of Michigan, USA, (3) Univ. Insubria, Como, Italy, (4) Max Planck Inst. extr...
