Visions of the Future - BBC FOUR series with Dr Michio KakuStarts Monday 5 November 2007 In this new three-part series, leading theoretical physicist and futurist Dr Michio Kaku explores the cutting edge science of today, tomorrow, and beyond. He argues that humankind is at a turning point in histo...
There are unknown creatures lurking under the windswept islands of the Aleutians, according to a team of scientific divers from the University of Alaska Fairbanks. This summer, while completing the second phase of a two-year broad scientific survey of the waters around the Aleutian Islands, sci...
Florida Tech has the state's largest research telescope, a 32-inch, computer driven device installed this week on the F.W. Olin Physical Science Building. The new telescope was installed Thursday at Florida Tech's Melbourne campus, Florida Today reported. The device, which cost $650,000, wil...
Astronomers have observed gigantic tornadoes emerging from a supermassive black hole. The intense winds blow with such force that they shape the surrounding galaxy. The find could contribute new insights to theories about the evolution of galaxies in the early universe. A team of astronomers fr...
Credits: ESA This Envisat image captures Noel moving westward across the Caribbean Sea. At the time of this acquisition, Noel was a tropical depression but formed into a tropical storm later on Sunday. Noel was projected to reach Haiti and the Dominican Republic early Monday morning before headin...
Scientists may be one step closer to understanding the atomic forces that cause friction, thanks to a recently published study by researchers from the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Houston and the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory. The research, led by Rob...
Oxford: Heaviest place in Britain. It is best known as the city of dreaming spires. But now Oxford has a new accolade for its tourist guide books it is officially the heaviest place in Britain. Underneath its famed colleges, the earth in the city weighs an impressive 140billion tonnes per square kilo...
Space-faring nations are heading again for human exploration of the Moon and, eventually, of Mars. They might soon be prepared with regards technology development, but what about the viewpoint of the humanities (history, philosophy, anthropology), the arts as well as the social sciences (poli...
Title: Ukrainian Synchronous Network of small Internet Telescopes as rapid action instrument for transient objects Authors: B.E. Zhilyaev, M.V. Andreev, Ya.O. Romanyuk, A.V. Sergeev, V.K. Tarady UNIT (The Ukrainian synchronous Network of small Internet Telescopes) is a system of automated...
Title: Another view to Pismis 3 with 2MASS Photometry Authors: A. L. Tadross (Version v3) This paper is a continuation of a series, aiming to refine and re-determine the most physical parameters of rarely or/and un-studied open star clusters with a good quality CMD using Near-IR JHK photometry. A m...
A University of Leicester astrophysicist is playing a pivotal role in a mission that seeks to study the origins of the universe. Professor Martin Turner of the Department of Physics and Astronomy is Co-Principal Investigator on XEUS - a next-generation X-ray space observatory. XEUS, which stand...
An IMEC laboratory at the University of Ghent in Belgium has realized interconnections for elastic electronic wires that can be stretched to twice their original length while maintaining electrical conductivity. The technology could be significant in such applications as foldable displays,...
Astronomers presented new results from the Canadian MOST (Micro variability and Oscillations of Stars) satellite at the Canadian Astronomical Society Meeting held at the Universite de Montreal.
Suzanna Randall and Prof. Gilles Fonta...
According to Russia’s Missile Forces its RS-20V Voyevoda intercontinental ballistic missile has been tested successfully, United Press International reports.
The test of the long-range missile, that NATO has given the codename SS-18 Satan, launched from the Russian city of Orenburg and re...
U.S. engineers have long wanted to fold up an airplane inside a rocket and send it on a mission to cruise through the atmosphere of Mars. They now have a new potential customer for the concept: the Pentagon's Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency. DARPA started a program earlier this year called...
