A breakthrough in geological dating can be expected within the next few years, combining existing methods to yield higher accuracy over longer time scales closer to the earth's origin. This will bring great benefits not just for earth sciences, but also for other fields that rely on accurate datin...
Hurricane Dean is forecast to make landfall in Martinique in about 33 hours probability for CAT 1 or above is 40% probability for TS is 60% St. Lucia probability for CAT 1 or above is 40% in about 33 hours probability for TS is 60% in about 33 hours
Title: Apollo asteroids (1566) Icarus and 2007 MK6: Icarus family members? Authors: K. Ohtsuka, H. Arakida, T. Ito, T. Kasuga, J. Watanabe, D. Kino****a, T. Sekiguchi, D. J. Asher, S. Nakano (Version v2) Although it is more complicated to search for near-Earth object (NEO) families than main bel...
Space shuttle Endeavour and its crew are scheduled to continue the next phase of International Space Station assembly with an August 7 launch and an 11-day mission to the orbital outpost. The mission, STS-118, will deliver another truss (backbone) to the station and mark the first flight of missio...
Some of the world's biggest record labels including Universal and SonyBMG have begun selling music through a new download service called Gbox. Customers can buy tunes at the same price charged by market leader iTunes - 50 pence a track. Read more
Title: Obscured clusters.I. GLIMPSE30 - Young Milky Way Star Cluster Hosting Wolf-Rayet Stars Authors: R. Kurtev (1), J. Borissova (1), L. Georgiev (2), S. Ortolani (3), V.D. Ivanov (4) (1. Department of Physics and Astronomy, Univ. of Valparaiso, Chile; 2. Department of Astronomy, UNAM, Mexic...
Parents who dress their boys in blue and girls in pink may not simply be following a tradition: new research has suggested that these are indeed the usual favourite colours of each sex. The long-established idea that men and women differ in their choice of favourite colours has been confirmed by scie...
Typhoon Sepat is forecast to make landfall in Taiwan probability for CAT 1 or above is 40% in about 72 hours probability for TS is 65% in about 48 hours
The National Science Foundation (NSF), Public Library of Science (PLoS) and the San Diego Supercomputing Centre (SDSC) have open up a new website, Scivee.tv, dedicated to scientists who want to upload scientific videos. The videos can be accompanied by written material. [url=http://...
Elon Musk has posted an update on SpaceX: Monster Progress Update (Mostly Falcon 9) - Aug.17.07. The US Air Force has decided not to launch TacSat-1. This, as Elon Musk puts it, "is not a reflection of the Pentagon's conf...
Representatives with the Sonora Police Department and both the Tuolumne and Calaveras County Sheriff's Departments say they fielded numerous calls early this morning in regards to a "loud boom," and "structures shaking." According to a Sonora Police Department report,...
The 35-40-km diameter Azuara impact structure is located in northeast Spain roughly 50 km south of Zaragoza. Its age is estimated to be Upper Eocene or Oligocene, though ages of 130 and 40 Million years have been offered. It is possible that Azuara and the close by Rubiela de la Cérida impact craters f...
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