Tropical Storm 07W is forecast to make landfall in Taiwan in about 72 hours The probability for category 1 storm or above is 35%; the probability for Tropical Storm is 55%.
A Gardnerville man said he found an 1,800-pound meteorite in Douglas County using a device that detects radio signals from minerals. Bob Yocum, 82, has been showing the find to folks since Friday when he found it at an undisclosed location. Yocum said he detected it with his omni-range master minera...
More and more visitors are pouring into Dar al-Hajjar, Yemens iconic castle atop a rock, according to government statistics. Some, 86,000 people traveled to Dar al-Hajjar in the first half of 2007. These numbers included 70,000 Yemeni visitors, and 16,000 visitors from other countries. Only 46...
The supergiant star FG Sagittae, is the nucleus of the faint planetary nebula PK 60-7°1. On first glance, FG Sge looked rather ordinary. It was recognised as a variable star only recently in 1943, even though it was first photographed in 1894. In 1894 the star was at photographic magnitude +13.6, in 1...
Jumpcut is a video/photo online resource that allows you to a upload video and perform simple edits on it. Jumpcut is a place to make movies and interact with people. This is your personal home, where you can work with your stuff and see activity that is related to you. As you upload and interact with Ju...
Nepals new national anthem Nepal launched a new national anthem on Friday, replacing the previous song that praised the Himalayan nations highly unpopular monarch. The new anthem was made public by Parliament Speaker Subash Nemwang. The song, which includes the lyrics, We Nepali are a garland ma...
Molecule with a Split Personality as Porphyrinoid Switches Between Huckel and Mobius Topologies If you take a strip of paper, twist one end by 180° and then stick the two ends together to form a ring, the result is called a Möbius strip, a geometric shape with only one surface and one edge. You can prove...
Pestera Muierii ('Women's Cave') is a 3566m-long is a multichamberedkarstic cave system, where the oldest modern human remains in Europe have been discovered. The name Women's Cave was given to the cave by the people from Baia de Fier. In olden times, when there were frequent wars, the women (and ch...
Russian researchers involved in the North Pole dive will monitor the environmental situation around the site where the K-278 Komsomolets a Soviet Project 685 nuclear-powered attack submarine sank in April 7, 1989 about 180 kilometres southeast of Bjornoya in 1,500-1,700 meters of water. A...
Australia gallery officials have announced that a painting, entitled Head of a Man, that had been thought to be by the Dutch master Vincent Van Gogh has been proven to be by another artist. The painting is owned by the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne who acquired it in 1940 and had been valu...
A strong magnitude 6.2 earthquake occurred at 00:41:16 (UTC) on Friday, August 3, 2007, south of Australia, 495 km NE of Dumont d'Urville, Antarctica, at a depth of 12 km. Location 62.874°S, 145.460°E
Some experts are starting to support the theory that the fall of a giant meteorite some 2 billion years ago may have created the Czech basin, surrounded by mountain ranges, reminding of a crater and easily detectable from high altitudes, writes the weekly Tyden out today. Up to recently, the Czech ba...
Baltimore anime convention. About 50,000 animaniacs are expected to be in Baltimore City this weekend for the Otakon Convention. Some call it 'The Gathering of the Geeks,' but to local anime fans it is simply the 14th time that the Otakon gathering has been held at the Convention Center in Baltimore...
