More than 800 men died. Britain suffered the worst loss of life in a naval disaster on home shores. But even to this day little notice has been paid in historical circles to the sinking of HMS Vanguard in 1917. The Vanguard the eighth Royal Navy vessel by that name was an aging ship in need of repair or repl...
It's 110 degrees, hardly a heat wave for Death Valley. And in a small, bathtub-warm pool below a steep, rocky incline, small fish appear to be at play, darting and chasing each other through patches of algae. These are Devils Hole pupfish and, aside from the strangeness of finding fish in the middle of...
One of the basic principles of physics is that energy can neither be created nor destroyed.
However, an Irish company has challenged the worldwide scientific community to test a technology it has developed that it claims produces free energy.
The company, Steorn, says its discovery is based o...
Title: (21238) 1995 WV7: A New Basaltic Asteroid Outside the 3:1 Mean Motion Resonance
Authors: Mark Hammergren (Adler), Geza Gyuk (Adler/U of Chicago), Andrew Puckett (U of Chicago)
We report visible to near-infrared spectroscopy and spectrophotometry of asteroid (21...
The Neugrund meteor crater in Estonia is a 8 km diameter submarine impact crater formed about 475 million years ago in the Ordovician period. The impact crater formed in a shallow epicontinental sea as the result of the impact of an extraterrestrial body with a diameter of about 400 m. The locati...
A magnitude 15.6 supernova, 2007fb, was discovered on the 3rd July 2007, by the Lick Observatory Supernova Search (LOSS) in the spiral galaxy UGC 12859 in the constellation Pisces. The supernova is located 27".6 west...
A lake in southern Chile has mysteriously disappeared, prompting speculation the ground has simply opened up and swallowed it whole. The lake was situated in the Magallanes region in Patagonia and was fed by water, mostly from melting...
At Gerrity Stone in Woburn, they know a lot about rocks. But they can't identify the one that punched a hole through their roof the other day. NewsCenter 5's Kelley Tuthill reported that experts are examining the object, trying to determine exactly what it is. "No one around here has ever seen an...
A Molniya 1 communications satellites , International designation 1992 071A, (20742), that was launched on the 10th August 1990, from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome, for a Molniya 1-83 mission was predicted to re-enter the Earths atmosphere on the 06 JUL 2007 @ 23:39 UTC ± 35 Minutes. Predicted Decay Loc...
An International Launch Services Proton rocket with a Breeze M upper stage will launch the DirecTV 10 broadcasting spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan . The launch of the Boeing-built satellite been scheduled for June this year. "A Briz-M booster, which will be used on th...
Microsoft, the exclusive online media sponsor for Live Earth, has launched the MSN Live Earth Tree - an interactive online animation that lets people worldwide pledge their commitment to the environment and join the battle to halt climate change. The Live Earth Tree invites users to visit the site...
New research led by University of New Hampshire physicists has proved the existence of a new type of electron wave on metal surfaces: the acoustic surface plasmon, which will have implications for developments in nano-optics, high-temperature superconductors, and the fundamental understand...
A team of archaeologists from Bath and Camerton Archaeological Society (Bacas) has helped uncover an ancient stone circle in one of Britain's most remote locations. Members of the have taken part in a two-week excavation on Foula, part of the Shetland Islands (Scotland). The team was previously i...
A family of rare peregrine falcons has set up home in Aberdeen city centre. The pair of adult birds have four chicks which are learning to fly in the Triple Kirks area, making a "spectacular" sight in the skies. RSPB Scotland has set up a viewing point situated by the statue of Burns on Union T...
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