Title: The Nature of a Cosmic-ray Accelerator CTB37B Observed with Suzaku and Chandra Authors: Ryoko Nakamura, Aya Bamba, Manabu Ishida, Hiroshi Nakajima, Ryo Yamazaki, Yukikatsu Terada, Gerd Puhlhofer, Stefan J. Wagner We report the Suzaku and Chandra observations of the young supernova rem...
Title: Extremely red stellar objects revealed by IPHAS Authors: N.J. Wright, R. Greimel, M.J. Barlow, J.E. Drew, M.-R.L. Cioni, A.A. Zijlstra, R.L.M. Corradi, E.A. González-Solares, P. Groot, J. Irwin, M.J. Irwin, A. Mampaso, R.A.H. Morris, D. Steeghs, Y.C. Unruh, N. Walton We present photome...
Students from OSUs Radiation Physics Laboratory built and successfully launched a cosmic radiation detector this summer that reached the edge of outer space. Carried by a helium-filled balloon 12 inches in diameter, the detector flew for more than two hours and reached 104,000 feet in altitude...
Severe weather over the Dominican Republic has strengthened into a tropical storm which is heading towards Cuba, US weather forecasters said. At 2100GMT on Friday Tropical Storm Fay was about 55km east of the Dominican Republic's capital, with winds of 65km/h. [url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/l...
In a world without numbers youd think that counting would be all but impossible. However, new research by scientists at UCL Institute of Neurology says otherwise. Together with a team from University of Melbourne they studied children between the ages of four and seven from two non-English speaki...
Spooky activity has been lighting up Calderdale's skies. Readers reported seeing strange lights flashing above Mytholmroyd on Monday between 8pm and 9pm. Chris Granger, 45, of Vale Mill Cottages, Cragg Vale, said he was shocked to see six bizarre lights for two to three minutes before they disapp...
Fireballs in the sky? If they're out there, Dr. James Whitehead wants to know. The St. Thomas University professor was in town Thursday to install a special "all-sky" movie camera onto the roof of the French Fort Cove Eco -centre that will track meteors as they burn up in the atmosphere. [u...
Ground-penetrating radar has been used to non-destructively map an ant colony for the first time. The results have been digitised and fed into an interactive visualisation system so that the colony can be explored virtually. The system is inexpensive compared to earlier approaches and could be u...
The Stretford UFO sighting has been solved and apparently it was no more than a lot of hot air! Bright orange lights appeared above Stretford on Thursday night, sparking speculation that extra terrestrials had come to Manchester. But, according to a witness, the truth is that they were lanterns mad...
Mexican archaeologists have discovered a maze of stone temples in underground caves, some submerged in water and containing human bones, which ancient Mayans believed was a portal where dead souls entered the underworld. Clad in scuba gear and edging through narrow tunnels, researchers discov...
Title: A Map of the Universe Authors: Gott, J. Richard, III; Juri, Mario; Schlegel, David; Hoyle, Fiona; Vogeley, Michael; Tegmark, Max; Bahcall, Neta; Brinkmann, Jon We have produced a new conformal map of the universe illustrating recent discoveries, ranging from Kuiper Belt ob...
One of the worlds deepest-diving robot submarines has returned from its first mission with spectacular images of giant holes on the seabed and evidence of underwater avalanches. Autosub6000, which was developed by British scientists, descended almost three miles below the surface to investig...
