Three meteor showers from different constellations will be visible in the horizon during the month of A single ant or bee isn't smart, but their colonies are. The study of swarm intelligence is providing insights that can help humans manage complex systems, from truck routing to military robots. A...
With no motors or harpoons, brave villagers use their ancient skills to bring home 75ft monster of the deep It's a way of life that has gone on unchanged for hundreds of years. In a throwback to the Stone Age, there are no explosive harpoons or even nails in the wooden boats. And you can forget outboard mo...
The Hubble Space Telescope has spied a menagerie of galaxies. Located within the same tiny region of space, these numerous galaxies display an assortment of unique characteristics. Some are big; some are small. A few are relatively nearby, but most are far away. Hundreds of these faint galaxies ha...
The MP Birla Memorial Award 2007 was conferred on Prof Ramanath Cowsik on Wednesday for his contribution to the spread of astronomy, astrophysics, earth and planetary sciences and fundamental physics. Cowsik, the director of McDonnell Centre for the Space Sciences and Vainu Bappu Distinguishe...
A magnitude 15.3 supernova, 2007cv, was discovered on the 29th June, 2007, by the TAROT collaboration, in the elliptical galaxy IC 2597 in the constellation Hydra. The Supernova is located 24" west and 6" south of the centre of the gal...
(June 8, old news) With an eye toward learning more about the elements that make up the universe and everything in it, Argonne scientists have reached the latest milestone in an upgrade of ATLAS, a leading facility for nuclear structure research in the United States. [url=http://www.anl.gov/Me...
Give the Space Navigator your time and location, and it will let you know where over 60 of the brightest stars are The Space Navigator is a portable electronic star locator and identifier. Stargazers can enter their location and time on a small keypad, and an onboard computer shows them exactly where...
This image of Pan was taken by the Cassini spaceprobe on June 30, 2006, when it was approximately 302,235 kilometres away.
The image was taken using the CL1 and CL2 filters.
Pan, (S/1981 S 13) is about 25 kilometres across (35 × 35 × 23 km), and orbits in the Encke gap. It is responsible for keepi...
The launch of the second German radar reconnaissance satellite in the SAR-Lupe system has been scheduled for the evening of July 1, 2007. Like its predecessor, it will be launched into its low-earth orbit from the Russian Plesetsk Cosmodrome onboard a Kosmos 3M rocket. Launch is scheduled for 19...
A Molniya 1 communications satellites , International designation 1992 011A, (21897), that was launched on the 4th March 1992, from LC43, at the Plesetsk Cosmodrome, for the Molniya 1-83 mission was predicted to re-enter the Earths atmosphere on the 2nd July 2007 @ 00:48 UTC ± 3 hours. The 1600 kg...
The following fix enables Microsoft DirectX Video Acceleration (DXVA) of Microsoft Windows Media Video (WMV) content in Microsoft Windows Media Player 10 for video cards when the drivers of those video cards are designed to take advantage of this feature.
Here is a summar...
On June 30th the Hadron Electron Ring Accelerator, HERA, was shut down. The 6.3 km HERA ring which provided electrons and protons for use in particle and nuclear physics experiments, was shut down to make way for new scientific facilities at the DESY Laboratory near Hamburg in Germany. HERA of...
China will launch its second geostationary orbit meteorological satellite, Fengyun-2 D on Dec. 8, according to the China Meteorological Administration.
Yang Jun, director of the National Satellite Meteorological Centre under the China Meteorological Administration, said that the Fengy...
Parts of Mumbai have once again started getting heavy rain after a short breather from the non-stop downpour that brought life in the city to a halt on Saturday. There was no overnight rain in the city and the water had also begun receding considerably in the waterlogged areas. [url=http://www.ndtv...
