* Astronomy

New evidence, based on mineral dating, suggests that rocks of the Blue Mountains, the oldest geological formation in Oregon, may have been derived from the Klamath and Sierra Nevada mountain chains, University of Oregon researchers report. The findings, presented today (Oct. 29) at the annual m...

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Rescuers have evacuated about 500 miners from the Frunze coalmine in the Lugansk Region in eastern Ukraine after a fire started in a tunnel at a depth of 870 meters.

James Watson begins his book about the discovery of the structure of the DNA, The Double Helix, with the story of a holiday meeting with Willy Seeds, a scientist who, rather than stop and speak to Watson, merely asks, How`s honest Jim? and walks on. Seeds was being sarcastic. Two years earlier, Watso...

The University of Wyomings telescope is getting a makeover for its 30th birthday. The National Science Foundation has granted more than $400,000 to UW to replace aging hardware that controls the 2.3-meter telescope, which is housed at the Wyoming Infrared Observatory (WIRO) on Jelm Mountain, ab...

Researchers at Michigan State Universitys National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory (NSCL) have created three isotopes of magnesium and aluminium. The results not only stake out new territory on the nuclear landscape, but also suggest that variants of everyday elements might exist that...

As a way of meeting your maker, this one at least had the benefit of originality. On October 15 1972, a farmer in Trujillo, Venezuela, heard a sonic boom in the sky. The next day he discovered a cow lying dead in the field, its neck and shoulder pulverised. The bemused farmer found a boulder lying nearby,...

A Proton K rocket with three Glonass navigation satellites on board is scheduled to liftoff from the Baikonur space centre, Kazakhstan, at 11.35 a.m. Moscow time (7.35 a.m. GMT) October 26.

What has appeared as a mild-mannered elliptical galaxy in previous studies is revealing its wild side in new images taken with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. The Hubble photos show shells of stars around a bright quasar, known as MC2 1635+119, which dominates the centre of the galaxy. The shells' p...

2007 TC14 Earth Impact Risk Summary Torino Scale (maximum) Palermo Scale (maximum) -5.35 Palermo Scale (cumulative) -5.35 Impact Probability (cumulative) 1.2e-07 Number of Potential Impacts 1 Results computed on Oct 25, 2007 2007 TC14 Earth Impact Table Date Distance Width Sigma Impact Sigm...

ESO's Very Large Telescope, equipped with the multi-mode FORS instrument, took an image of NGC 3190, a galaxy so distorted that astronomers gave it two names. And as if to prove them right, in 2002 it fired off, almost simultaneously, two stellar explosions, a very rare event. This beautiful edge-o...

A cataclysm 50 million years ago changed the face of the planet from the Hawaiian Islands to Antarctica, according to new research. The collapse of an underwater mountain range in the Pacific Ocean turned Australia into a warm and sunny continent instead of a snowbound wasteland and created some of...

'Cloud computing' is being pitched as a new nirvana for scientists drowning in data. But can it deliver? Dennis Gannon, a computer scientist at Indiana University in Bloomington, knows all about bringing huge amounts of computer power to bear on complex scientific problems. He has at his disposal...

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