David Burleigh, New Mexico Tech associate professor of Materials and Metallurgical Engineering, will present a public lecture on meteorites from 7 to 8 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 2, in Jones Annex 101, on the Tech campus. The lecture is titled Meteorites, Metals and Mankind. Burleigh will discuss the im...
A team of engineers from Bristol University finished the test programme last week [Friday 19 September] with 12 hot firings successfully completed. In each experiment the engine was held down on a heavily instrumented test stand providing data on pressures, temperature, flow rates and thrust....
A huge landslide that began on Thursday in central China's Hubei province has destroyed houses and blocked a river, and the flow of mud and rock is expected to continue in the coming days. The landslide occurred in Badong county, near Qingjiang River, after rising water in a reservoir loosened the fo...
Fifty-seven kilometres east of the B-1 road between Otavi and Grootfontein is a turn-off from where a serpentine dusty road leads to a cluster of fertile commercial farms. From the turn-off one would have to endure a 24-km drive along a bumpy road that traverses several maize fields and fertile catt...
Powerful nearby supernova caught by web of telescopes Over a decade after it exploded, one of the nearest supernovae in the last 25 years has been identified. This result was made possible by combining data from the vast online archives from many of the worlds premier telescopes. The spacewalk by on...
Early morning risers who spotted a bright greenish-yellow light flashing across Sutherland Shire can sleep easy, aliens have not landed. Surfers at Cronulla Beach saw the light travelling across the sky from east to west lasting about five seconds at around 5.30am before it split into three secti...
Polands greatest contemporary astronomer, Professor Aleksander Wolszczan, has declined an offer to become an honorary citizen of Torun, northern Poland. Torun was the birthplace of Polands greatest ever astronomer, Nicholaus Copernicus. [url=http://www.polskieradio.pl/thenews/huma...
A Japanese businessman who trained for a 10-day flight aboard the international space station has sued to get his money back, claiming he was defrauded of $21 million by the U.S. firm that arranged the venture. Daisuke Enomoto, 37, had completed training in Russia and planned to fly to the station ab...
Iran to launch satellite with own rocket to space Iran plans to launch a satellite into space soon using an Iranian-made rocket, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said. Iran has in the past launched satellites using rockets built by other nations, but this was the first announcement of such a launch wi...
NASA managers briefed industry representatives, members of academia and reporters Thursday about the agency's initial plans for the Ares V heavy-lift rocket and Altair lunar lander. The Ares V and Altair are part of a fleet of vehicles NASA is developing for a new space transportation system desi...
Leading physicists gather in London to celebrate the career of Professor Sir John Pendry Cloaking devices, perfect lenses and super high speed computer chips of the future will be among topics under discussion at a special two-day symposium next week in celebration of the career of Imperial Colle...
A New Zealand coroner has concluded that the reasons surrounding the death from methanol poisoning of an Australian scientist working at the South Pole eight years ago, remain a mystery. Dr Rodney David Marks, 32, died in May 2000 while working with 49 other scientists at a research base operated by...
