Space transportation is inherently risky. Those words are, quite literally, the law of the land in the United States, part of the Commercial Space Launch Amendments Act of 2004. Few people would dispute that statement, given that spaceflight, commercial or otherwise, is still in its relative inf...
Satellite 02B, the third Chinese and Brazilian earth resources satellite, is to be to launch in September this year. The satellite was jointly developed by China and Brazil, The satellite has been put through a series of tests at the Brazilian National Space Research Institute (INPE) and is to b...
Title: Submillimeter Array Observation of the Proto-Planetary Nebula CRL 618 in the CO J=6-5 Line Authors: Jun-ichi Nakashima (1), David Fong (2), Tatsuhiko Hasegawa (1), Naomi Hirano (1), Nico Koning (3), Sun Kwok (1,4), Jeremy Lim (1), Dinh-Van-Trung (1), Ken Young (5) ((1) ASIAA, (2) CfA/SMA...
A panel reviewing astronaut health issues in the wake of the Lisa Nowak arrest has found that on at least two occasions astronauts were allowed to fly after flight surgeons and other astronauts warned they were so intoxicated that they posed a flight-safety risk.
The panel, also reported "h...
Social-networking giant MySpace.com on Wednesday blocked Photobucket videos and photo slideshows from being uploaded to its pages. MySpace will no longer let users post such content from Photobucket in their profiles, blogs or comments section. MySpace said Photobucket had violated MySpace...
Perhaps it is nothing more than a legend, as skeptics say. Or maybe it is real, as those who claim to have seen it avow. But the mere mention of the mapinguary, the giant slothlike monster of the Amazon, is enough to send shivers down the spines of almost all who dwell in the world's largest rain forest. Th...
The Sirindhorn Museum, also known as the Phu Kum Khao Dinosaur Museum, in Sahatsakhan district of this northeastern province is hoping to lift Thailand to international acclaim with one of Asia's leading exhibitions of dinosaur fossils, and to encourage Thais to do more to preserve these importa...
A swarm of 350 meteorite experts are expected to descend on Tucson, US, for the 70th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society on August 13 - 17.
Coincidentally, that week also promises to be one of the best Perseid meteor shower shows seen from Tucson in years.
The Meteoritical Society is the worl...
An experiment at the GANIL facility in France is the first to make, observe, identify, and characterize the heaviest isotope yet of hydrogen, H-7, consisting of a lone proton and 6 neutrons. All of the lighter isotopes of hydrogen have previously been seen: H-1 (ordinary hydrogen), H-2 (deuterium...
At an amazing 3.571 metres, the Sphinx observatory at Swiss Alps is the highest-altitude construction in Europe. The Sphinx building and observation terrace stand 117 metres above the Jungfraujoch-Top of Europe . On 13 December 2001 UNESCO declared the Jungfrau-Aletsch-Bietschhorn area the f...
Large chunks of ice, one of them reportedly about 50 pounds, fell from the sky in this northeast Iowa city, smashing through a woman's roof and tearing through nearby trees.
Authorities were unsure of the ice's origin but have theorized the chunks either fell from an airplane or naturally accumula...
The Harvard College Observatory, home to half a million glass photographic plates of the night sky from over 100 years of observations, is currently in the midst of one of the greatest preservation efforts in astronom...
New reference points for thermocouples beyond 1100 °C More efficient jet engines will result from reduced uncertainty of thermocouple temperature sensors at high temperatures. Measurement scientists at the National Physical Laboratory have reduced the uncertainty of thermocouple tempera...
A 2,500-year-old mirror worth £500,000 was dropped and smashed on a Chinese TV show. A model was showing the ancient mirror to the audience when it slipped from her hands and fell to the floor. Read more
