Unravelling the mysteries of coiling ropes. Experiment reveals complex behaviour. If you carefully lower a rope onto the floor it will probably form a neat coil. While most people wouldnt give it much though a group of scientist had a closer look. Their new insights into coiling could shed light o...
Globalstar's Soyuz #7 Launch Campaign is Underway in Baikonur Globalstar, Inc. , a leading provider of mobile satellite voice and data services to businesses, governments, and individuals, announced today that May 20, 2007 is the scheduled date for the first launch of four Globalstar first-gen...
Young River Landslide Biggest In 16 Years Geologists have found that the Young River landslide in Mt Aspiring National Park is the biggest landslide in New Zealand since the top fell off Mount Cook in 1991. Using a tripod-mounted laser scanner, geologist Chris Massey and surveyor Neville Palmer, b...
Title: Shocked Molecular Hydrogen in the 3C 326 Radio Galaxy System Authors: Patrick Ogle (1), Robert Antonucci (2), P. N. Appleton (3), David Whysong (4) ((1) SSC/Caltech, (2) UCSB, (3) NHSC/Caltech, (4) NRAO/VLA) The Spitzer spectrum of the giant FR II radio galaxy 3C 326 is dominated by very str...
The heftiest, brightest known star is in the Pistol Nebula and is located 25,000 light-years away in the direction of the constellation Sagittarius. It is believed to be 100 times as massive as our Sun, and 10 million times as bright. The Sun's mass is about 2 X 10^27 tons, which is a 2 followed by 27 zero...
Residents in the village of Carmacks, Yukon, living near the former Tantalus Butte coal mine say they want something done about coal fires burning underground. Although the mine was abandoned in the late 1970s, coal seams have since been burning deep underground. Residents in the village complai...
The Columbia space shuttle accident has prompted the government to come up with new safety rules for unmanned rocket launches.
The Federal Aviation Administration and the Air Force Space Command were to announce Friday the new safety standards for commercial rocket launches. They'll take e...
Title: HE 1113-0641: The Smallest Separation Gravitational Lens Identified by a Ground-based Optical Telescope Authors: Jeffrey A. Blackburne (1), Lutz Wisotzki (2), Paul L. Schechter (1) ((1) MIT, (2) Astrophysikalische Institut Potsdam) The Hamburg/ESO quasar HE 1113-0641 is found to be a...
A spectacular megabreccia (a coarse rock assemblage composed of large angular-to-rounded fragments, some over 6m in length, held together by a mineral cement in this particular case by melted rock in the form of fine crystalline glassy material) in the Kraaipan granite-greenstone terrane, loc...
Jeptha Knob (elevation 362 m) is the highest point in the Bluegrass region of Kentucky. The Kentucky historical marker at its base calls it a "cryptovolcanic structure", but it is now believed to be the result of an asteroid impact some 425 million years ago. [url=http://en.wikipedia....
Build a virtual apartment and put it on your website. Work with friends to make a huge MMORPG. Share your puzzle game with friends. Metaplace is a next-generation virtual worlds platform designed to work the way the Web does. Instead of giant custom clients and huge downloads, Metaplace lets you pla...
After a journey around the world, a stolen 1482 map based on the work of the ancient astronomer and geographer Ptolemy has been recovered in a Sydney art gallery. The map, known as the Ulm Ptolemy World Map, illustrates what was then known about the world and is described as "perhaps the most famo...
Title: Radio Detection of Supernova 2004ip in the Circumnuclear Region of the Luminous Infrared Galaxy IRAS 18293-3413 Authors: M. A. Pérez-Torres, S. Mattila, A. Alberdi, L. Colina, J. M. Torrelles, P. Väisänen, S. Ryder, N. Panagia, A. Wilson (Version v2) We report a radio detection of superno...
