Japan rolled out the red carpet Thursday for the world premiere of "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix," the fifth movie from J.K. Rowling's megahit fantasy series. Hundreds of young Japanese fans, many wearing witch costumes and holding magic wands, screamed when Daniel Radcli...
The Willan Space Gallery uses with interactive activities to explore that age-old fascination. Visitors can touch a piece of the moon, build rockets and play a shadow game with weightless M&Ms. EAA holds a space exploration weekend twice each year, and Raudabaugh said it has never seen a more p...
Do you believe the Universe is really random? Random number generation is a thorny issue for the gambling industry as a whole, but more so for the online gambling industry. The element of randomness is essential to casino games - it is in fact part of what defines them as such, along with a stake and a pri...
For sale: $1 property surrounded by Long Island Sound off the coast of Fairfield. Must be able to cope with possible haunting. The U.S. General Services Administration is seeking a buyer for the Penfield Lighthouse, built in 1874 about 1.1 miles from Fairfield Beach. It is said to be the site of stran...
"Liaoliao", China's first digital female virtual TV presenter , from northeast China's Liaoning province, will soon release her first album.
The virtual presenter has been "invited" as a famous TV host of Liaoning TV, the provincial TV station of Liaoning Province. The...
A fresco painting by a Renaissance master which once decorated the bedroom of Pope Alexander VI in the Vatican has gone on show in Rome. A leading Italian art historian and curator says he has documentary proof that it was once part of a much larger painting depicting the aged Pope kneeling in front of h...
A dowser is using his divine powers to pinpoint the exact whereabouts of forgotten Lake District stone circles. Surveyor Paul Daw came to Cumbria with his divining rods and visited various Lake District locations at the end of April in search of the buried Neolithic sites. Using a Y-shaped twig or tw...
The Tate Satellite was launched on June 6th 2002. It is currently orbiting at an orbital velocity of 7.67 km/sec approximately 400km from earth in a polar to polar low earth orbit. The satellite orbits earth every 92.56 mins and traverses the entire globe in the course of 15.56 orbits - 24 hours - 1 day....
A seagull has turned shoplifter by wandering into a shop and helping itself to crisps. The bird walks into the RS McColl newsagents in the Castlegate, Aberdeen, when the door is open and makes off with cheese Doritos. The seagull, nicknamed Sam, has now become so popular that locals have started payi...
Brazil on Thursday successfully launched a VSB-30 rocket on a 20-minute flight aimed at studying how gravity affects human enzymes and DNA. The 41-foot-high two-stage VSB-30 rocket, was launched from the coastal Alcantara site in northeastern Brazil, and managed to reach an altitude of appro...
On a dark night, if you look up at the sky, you may see a streak of light as a meteor flashes through the atmosphere. Meteoroids, which are often fragments of comets or asteroids, become meteors once they enter earth's atmosphere. If they hit the ground, they are called meteorites. People often see met...
Jim Bonner was happy to talk Thursday night about the geology of the Eocene Epoch and how Colorado looked during that time, 35 million years ago. He answered geology and hydrology questions for almost three hours and was unruffled by unfriendly ones, of which there were a few. Bonner, a geologist wit...
The Centro de Lançamento de Alcântara (CLA) is a satellite launching base in the city of Alcântara, located on Brazil's northern Atlantic coast, in the state of Maranhão. Expand (78kb, 800 x 562) Latitude: -2.3...
American heroes head for happy retirement at Chimp Haven Rita and Teresa served the United States government with distinction for four decades. They played their part in its embryonic space programme and then later made an important contribution to medical research. Now, as they reach their dota...
Title: A Chandra study of particle acceleration in the multiple hotspots of nearby radio galaxies Authors: M. J. Hardcastle, J. H. Croston, R. P. Kraft We present Chandra observations of a small sample of nearby classical double radio galaxies which have more than one radio hotspot in at least one o...
