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Title: Evidence for a long-lived superheavy nucleus with atomic mass number A=292 and atomic number Z=~122 in natural Th Authors: A. Marinov, I. Rodushkin, D. Kolb, A. Pape, Y. Kashiv, R. Brandt, R.V. Gentry, H.W. Miller Evidence for the existence of a superheavy nucleus with atomic mass number A=...

Astronomers are using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to dissect one of the largest structures in the universe as part of a quest to understand the violent lives of galaxies. Hubble is providing indirect evidence of unseen dark matter tugging on galaxies in the crowded, rough-and-tumble environme...

Title: Evidence for a companion to BM Gem, a silicate carbon star Authors: Hideyuki Izumiura, Kunio Noguchi, Wako Aoki, Satoshi Honda, Hiroyasu Ando, Masahide Takada-Hidai, Eiji Kambe, Satoshi Kawanomoto, Kozo Sadakane, Bun'ei Sato, Akito Tajitsu, Wataru Tanaka, Ki'ichi Okita, Etsuji Watan...

Let's do a little science experiment. If you have a can of whipped cream in the fridge, go get it out. Spray a generous dollop into a spoon and watch carefully. Notice anything interesting? The whipped cream just did something rather puzzling. First it flowed smoothly out of the nozzle like a liquid wo...

At elementary schools, kindergartens, and preschools all across Japan, kids are losing themselves making hikaru dorodango, or balls of mud that shine. Behind this boom is Professor Fumio Kayo of the Kyoto University of Education. Kayo is a psychologist who researches children's play, and he fir...

Lunar eclipse - the other side. Click to Play | View Details February 2008 lunar eclipse

An expert advisory team has been appointed by ESA with the purpose of advising the Agency on the best scientific and technological roadmap to pursue in order to address one of the most exciting goals in modern astrophysics: the characterization of terrestrial exo-planets (up to the possible detec...

Austria Declares Intent To Join ESO At a press conference today at the University of Vienna's Observatory, the Austrian Federal Minister for Science and Research Johannes Hahn announced the decision by the Austrian Government to seek membership of ESO. From left to right: Prof. Tim de Zeeuw, ESO D...

Light is only part of the story - there's a whole set of different ways we can study the stars, from radiation to x-rays. But your eyes are a good start Read more

Solar Eclipse Click to Play | View Details

The Chinese communications relay satellite "Tianlian I" aboard a Long March-3C carrier rocket was successfully launched from the Xichang Satellite Launch Centre in southwest China's Sichuan Province at 11:35 p.m. (Beijing Time), 25th April, 2008. The satellite, developed by Chin...

Huaynaputina (Quechua: "New Volcano") is a stratovolcano located in a volcanic upland in southern Peru, 4850 m. The volcano does not have a vividly identifiable volcanic profile. On February 19, 1600 it exploded catastrophically (Volcanic Explosivity Index or VEI 6), in the largest...

Mercury and Venus are both very close to the Sun, so they are more or less out of sight this month. Mars is high up in the western sky at dusk, and Jupiter is now playing the role of Morning Star: it rises in the east about three hours before sunrise. Saturn on the other hand is high in the east at dusk, and does...

...it is time we gave serious consideration to energy from space. It is an old idea and most of the information below is widely available from NASA research. It was initiated after the oil embargo of the mid-1970s when NASA, working with the DOE, began to study alternative energy sources to lessen dep...