* Astronomy

GCRT J1745-3009 is a newly-discovered transient, bursting low-frequency radio source which lies in the direction of the galactic centre. Read more Right ascension 17h 45m 5.1s Declination -30° 09 56

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The Concepcion volcano in Nicaragua sent huge columns of ash into the sky in eruptions that prompted a ripple of small earthquakes, local seismologists said Sunday. The volcano, one of two on an island in the region's largest lake, erupted Saturday night and related earthquakes continued to rattl...

British scientists are building the biggest telescope to be launched into space - aiming to probe some of the most distant and mysterious corners of the universe. The X-ray Evolving Universe Spectroscopy, or XEUS, telescope is one of the next generation of space-based observatories that will rep...

Can the monkey god save Rama’s underwater bridge? Hindu groups are launching an international campaign today to halt India’s plans to create a shipping channel by dredging the sea between India and Sri Lanka. They say that the project will destroy an ancient chain of shoals known as [url=http://en...

The Romans turned the Celtic druids shrine into one of the major therapeutic centres of the West. Read more

Typhoon Mitag is forecast to make landfall in the Philippines in about 30 hours probability for CAT 1 or above is 40% probability for TS is 70% Daet (14.2 N, 122.9 E) probability for CAT 1 or above is 35% in about 66 hours probability for TS is 60% in about 42 hours 09:59...

The Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IAA), Dept. of Physics, University of Malta is organising the first professional astronomy conference to be held at the Corinthia Palace Hotel, Attard. MAGPOP (multiwavelength analysis of galaxy populations) is a Marie Curie Research Training Ne...

A mystifying lake called the Longchao Lake located in southwest Chongqing Municipality of China, swells and shrinks three times a day. The water-body has reportedly no ditch or other lakes nearby, but it still comes up with three regular one-hour swells-and-shrinks at 8 am, 12 am and 4 pm respectiv...

Eskdalemuir Observatory is situated in the Southern Uplands of Scotland. It is on a rising shoulder of open moorland in the upper part of the valley of the river White Esk. It is surrounded by young conifer forests with hills rising to nearly 700 m to the NW. The observatory is 100 km from Edinburgh and 2...

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"Five! Four! Three! Two! One!" Successful liftoff? Err, not this time. "What went wrong?" Middletown High School science teacher Susan Cunningham asked, wondering why the foot-long sputtering model rocket failed to break free from gravity's pull for a few moments and jet...

Last week, at ESA's 46th parabolic flight campaign in Bordeaux, SSC engineers performed pre-cursor flights of the XRMON-Foam experiment module and also had the opportunity to experience microgravity themselves. SSC's three flights were very successful, with nominal processing of all six sam...

Two free-floating objects have been found orbiting each other for the first time. The find raises questions about how such small objects could form. Bodies that have the mass of a planet but are not bound to a star are called planetary mass objects, or "[url=http://www.activeboard.com/forum...

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