The discovery of three old Muslim towns in Ethiopia has put a question mark on the history of a nation which prides itself on its overwhelmingly Christian heritage dating back to Biblical times. The first known civilisation in Ethiopia was that of the mighty Aksumite kingdom which was established i...
Title: The Chemical Compositions of the Type II Cepheids -- The BL Her and W Vir Variables Authors: Thomas Maas (1), Sunetra Giridhar (2), David L. Lambert (1) ((1) The W.J. McDonald Observatory (2) Indian Institute of Astrophysics) Abundance analyses from high-resolution optical spectra are pr...
Title: HUDF 1619 - a candidate polar-ring galaxy in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field Authors: V.P. Reshetnikov, R.-J. Dettmar A good candidate for a polar-ring galaxy has been detected in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field (HUDF). The galaxy HUDF 1619 (V~25 mag, z~1) is the most distant object of this type know...
Polonium Is The Only Element With Simple Cubic Polonium is the only element with simple cubic crystal structure, and new theoretical work explains why that is. In a solid piece of polonium the atoms sit at the corners of a cubic unit cell and nowhere else. [url=http://www.aip.org/pnu/2007/split...
Title: Discovery of the strongly eccentric, short-period binary nature of the B-type system HD 313926 by the MOST satellite Authors: Slavek Rucinski, Rainer Kuschnig, Jaymie M. Matthews, Wojtek Dimitrov, Theodor Pribulla, David B. Guenther, Anthony F. J. Moffat, Dimitar Sasselov, Gordon A. H...
Title: New 60-cm Radio Survey Telescope with the Sideband-Separating SIS Receiver for the 200 GHz Band Authors: Taku Nakajima, Masahiro Kaiden, Jun Korogi, Kimihiro Kimura, Yoshinori Yonekura, Hideo Ogawa, Shingo Nishiura, Kazuhito Dobashi, Toshihiro Handa, Kotaro Kohno, Jun-Ichi Morino,...
Two geologists from Washington travelled to north-central Montana last week after an accidental discovery of what they believe is a new meteorite impact crater, located just southeast of Thornhill Butte. The Havre Daily caught up with the two St. Martin University students at Havres Fifth Stree...
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Google has added a new calendar format with a little extra eye candy. These calendars have small icons at the top of the day when there's new information.
Using these calendars, you can now get some extra information directly in your cale...
Title: A deep Chandra look at the low L_B elliptical NGC821: X-ray binaries, a galactic wind and emission at the nucleus Authors: S. Pellegrini (1), A. Baldi (2), D.W. Kim (2), G. Fabbiano (2), R. Soria (2,3), A. Siemiginowska (2), M. Elvis (2) ((1) Astronomy Dept., Bologna University, Italy; (2) Ha...
The first liquid camera lens with no moving parts, and that can switch between two levels of magnification, has been designed by a German research team. The work is an important step towards liquid zoom lenses that can sweep through a range of magnifications. [url=http://www.newscientisttech.c...
Giant ice cube smashes roof An Angus couple are recovering from shock after a giant ice cube plummeted from the sky at hundreds of miles an hour and smashed into their roof. James and Flora Fleming were relaxing in the lounge of their home, The Gables at Barnhead, on the outskirts of Montrose yesterday...
A Scottish schoolgirl has been named as the world's brightest young physicist at an international science festival. Holly Batchelor, 18, a pupil at the Mary Erskine School in Edinburgh, made her own cosmic ray detector - out of a plastic fish tank, an aluminium sheet and some felt - to win the Intel In...
Tropical Cyclone Gonu was captured by the Aqua satellite in the northern Indian Ocean basin, heading towards the north-eastern shore of Oman on June 4, 2007. Expand (281kb, 1024 x 768) Zoom View [url=http://fa...
A RUNRIG CD which survived the Columbia Space Shuttle disaster is to go on display in an exhibition about the band. Astronaut Laurel Clark, 41, played their album Stamping Ground in orbit days before all seven crew were killed when the shuttle broke up on re-entry. The CD was found by NASA investigato...
The 10 Most Intriguing Stars of 2007 In Hollywood, the biggest stars are measured by their box office appeal. But in astronomy, how do you know what the phatest stars are? What makes a star so special it deserves our awe and appreciation? Some stars capture our imagination because they are the best can...
