For centuries the ruins in the swamps of southern Panama have been testament to Scottish folly, an attempt to create a tropical empire to rival those of the Spanish and Portuguese. The five ships which sailed from Leith in the summer of 1698 carried the hopes of a nation. Success in Darien, a central Am...
Title: Lithium abundances in the old open cluster NGC 3960 from VLT/FLAMES observations Authors: Loredana Prisinzano (1), Sofia Randich (2) ((1) INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Palermo, Italy (2) INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Arcetri, Italy) Old open clusters are very useful targets t...
eyeOS 1.0 Launches eyeOS hails from Spain and was one of the early entries into a market that, as yet, has little evidence of profitability. However eyeOS now boasts 120,518 users (compared to 53,500 in August 2006), so it is ramping up well. To remind you again, a WebOS is basically a browser-based vi...
A 330-foot-deep sinkhole killed at least two teenagers as it swallowed about a dozen homes early Friday and forced the evacuation of nearly 1,000 people in a crowded Guatemala City neighborhood. Officials blamed the sinkhole on recent rains and an underground sewage flow from a ruptured main. [yo...
A TV reporter said he shot a 20-minute video of six "Lake Tianchi Monsters", near the border with the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK). Zhuo Yongsheng, who works for a local TV station run by the administration office of the nature reserve at Mount Changbaishan, Jilin, has se...
Title: The nearby young visual binary HIP 115147 and its common proper motion companion LSPM J2322+7847 Authors: V. V. Makarov, N. Zacharias, G. S. Hennessy, H. C. Harris, A. K. B. Monet We report a late M-type, common proper motion companion to a nearby young visual binary HIP 115147 (V368 Cep), sep...
Title: Characterisation of the near-Earth Asteroid 2002NY40 Authors: Lewis C. Roberts, Jr., Doyle T. Hall, John V. Lambert, John L. Africano, Keith T. Knox, Jacob K. Barros, Kris M. Hamada, Dennis Liang, Paul F. Sydney, Paul Kervin In August 2002, the near-Earth asteroid 2002 NY40, made its close...
Title: An m sin i = 24 Earth Mass Planetary Companion To The Nearby M Dwarf GJ 176 Authors: Michael Endl, William D. Cochran, Robert A. Wittenmyer, Alan P. Boss We report the detection of a planetary companion with a minimum mass of m sin i = 0.0771 M_Jup = 24.5 M_Earth to the nearby (d = 9.4 pc) M2.5V star GJ...
A strong magnitude 6.0 earthquake occurred at 20:50:47 (UTC) on Monday, January 23, 2006, near the west coast of Colombia. The hypocentral depth was estimated to be 26.2 km.
Location 6.842°N, 77.792°W
Cosmos 2379 a Russian geosynchronous early-warning/reconnaissance satellite that was launched by a Proton-K rocket with a DM-2 final stage from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on 24 August 2001 appears to be drifting from its prescribed orbital location at 24° West. This maybe a controlled transfer to...
Tonight Microsoft will announce the launch of Windows Live Spaces, a blogging and social networking site on the Live.com platform.
As Microsoft phases out the MSN brand in favour of Live.com, they’ve moved services over one at a time to the new platform. Unlike Windows Live Messenger, though, wh...
The comet is brightening and may reach magnitude 9 in July. Just now it is observable in the Northern Hemisphere, in the constellation Cepheus. The comet was first discovered by the Lincoln Laboratory Near-Earth Asteroid Research project on November 13, 2006. Date TT R. A. (2000) Decl. Delta r Elon...
Two rare meteorites weighing almost 30 kilograms have been found on a sheep and cattle property near Winton in Queensland's central west.
The burnt and blackened remains were discovered by David Elliott - the grazier who also found Australia's [url=http://www.abc.net.au/queensland/sto...
The remains of what has been described as a huge lost city may force historians and archaeologists to radically reconsider their view of ancient human history.
Marine scientists say archaeological remains discovered 36 metres (120 feet) underwater in the Gulf of Cambay off the western coast of...
Gabrielle became a tropical storm Saturday as it swirled toward the East Coast, where coastal residents in the Carolinas were preparing for heavy rain. The storm's centre was about 185 miles southeast of Cape Lookout at 5 p.m., and it was moving northwest at almost 8 mph and was expected to gradually...
