Txalaparta: an ancient instrument Historically it is believed that the Txalaparta was used as a means of communication between remote farmhouses. The txalaparta provides us with a typical Basque sound. It is an instrument made up of one or more thick wooden boards played by two people. The players...
A geological survey company warned of a possible natural gas explosion if hot water was pumped up from the spring source indoors in a report about 10 months before the opening of the Shiespa spa facility in Shibuya Ward, Tokyo, where an explosion killed three people on June 19, it has been learned. [ur...
A magnitude 15.9 supernova, 2007cs, was discovered on the 24th June 2007, by the Lick Observatory Supernova Search , in the galaxy UGC 12798 in the constellation Pegasus. The supernova is located 12".4 west and 2"....
Title: Three Types of Galaxy Disks Authors: M.Pohlen (1), P. Erwin (2), I. Trujillo (3), J.E. Beckman (3) (Kapteyn Astronomical Institute, Groningen, NL (1), Max-Planck-Institut fuer extraterrestrische Physik, Garching, D (2), Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias, La Laguna, E (3)) We prese...
NASA has created a new office to study in more detail some of the universe's most exotic phenomena: dark energy, black holes and cosmic microwave background radiation. The new Einstein Probes Office will facilitate NASA's future medium-class science missions to investigate these profound cosm...
Tethys and Titan Flyby - Jun. 27 and 29, 2007 This week, Cassini's travels will bring it by Saturn's moon Tethys (June 27) and [url=http://www.activeboard.com/forum...
As a boy, Leland Melvin loved to watch the world go by from the back seat of the family car during camping trips to the beach and the mountains. In six months, Melvin, who grew up in Lynchburg and played football at the University of Richmond, will watch the entire world go by from the space shuttle Atlant...
Chinese Academy of Science researchers have obtained drilling core records of the soft sandy loess and the loess-like sand on the northern slope of the West Kunlun Shan, a mountain range along the southern edge of the Tarim Basin, and Taklamakan and Gobi deserts. Supported by the Chinese...
Aurora Alert!
A coronal mass ejection (CME) is heading towards the Earth and it could spark a severe geomagnetic storm when it arrives tonight or tomorrow.
Stars have Earth-like weather Studying clouds of metal could shed light on how elements form inside stars The skies of stars might experience weather like that on planets, researchers now find. The drifting clouds scientists have seen are wispy, "just like cirrus clouds on Earth" exce...
A magnitude 15.2 supernova, 2007cr, was discovered on the 16th June 2007, by the TAROT collaboration, in the galaxy ESO 137-G19 in the constellation Pegasus. The supernova is located 20" east and 15" south of the center of the galaxy. Position(2...
The popular lecture by Professor Steve Jones (UCL Biology), ‘Why Intelligent Design is Stupid’ – the first in this term’s UCL Lunch Hour Lectures – will be repeated in the larger venue of the UCL Bloomsbury theatre on Friday 1 December 2006.
The lecture will start promptly at 1.15pm and las...
A huge monster with the head of a serpent and the body of a crocodile is rumoured to lurk at the bottom of a lake in Western Ukraine. The monster has been frightening residents of a nearby village for more than one hundred years. Now and again the gruesome creature comes ashore and attacks domestic anima...
There are no famous helicopters. Many people are familiar with the Spirit of St. Louis, the Wright Flyer, the Spruce Goose, and the Memphis Belle. Maybe even Glamorous Glennis. But name a famous helicopter. You cant. Yeah, lots of people can name the Huey, but thats a type, not a particular aircraft....
