Tricks with memory Has anyone ever actually USED hot swap memory - or at least the hot swap part of the memory? Read more Blogger Travaglia, Simon. Carbon-based lifeform with more chainsaws than computers (...
Teachers and administrators in the Northern Highlands Regional School District are hoping an Earth angel or at least a substantial grant will pay for more than $150,000 in upgrades to the school's 40-year-old planetarium. "We pay for an upgrade every year that costs about $6,000. ... It's so...
The Anik F3 satellite, designed and built by Astrium Satellites for Canada-based operator Telesat, is being prepared in Baikonur for launch on 10 April 2007 aboard an ILS Proton Breeze M launch vehicle. The spacecraft mated with the Breeze M upper stage is now ready to be encapsulated for flight. Li...
Title: Evidence for a Massive Protocluster in S255N Authors: C.J. Cyganowski, C.L. Brogan, T.R. Hunter S255N is a luminous far-infrared source that contains many indications of active star formation but lacks a prominent near-infrared stellar cluster. We present mid-infrared through radio o...
Title: The Cosmic Foreground Explorer (COFE): A balloon-borne microwave polarimeter to characterise polarised foregrounds Authors: Rodrigo Leonardi, Brian Williams, Marco Bersanelli, Ivan Ferreira, Philip M. Lubin, Peter R. Meinhold, Hugh O'Neill, Nathan C. Stebor, Fabrizio Villa, Thyr...
Possible missing stone and bank at Long Meg A student is leading the way in unlocking the mysteries of an ancient stone circle, Long Meg and her Daughters, near Little Salkeld (England). Sarah Potter, of Yanwath, who is in the third year of a degree in archaeology at the University of Manchester, carr...
Project to sink military ship begins After 10 years of fund-raising and getting permits, a project has begun to sink a retired military ship off Key West to serve as an artificial reef. Last Friday, the decommissioned U.S. Air Force missile-tracking ship Gen. Hoyt S. Vandenberg, a 523-foot ship tha...
Reports have emerged that the US Navy is upgrading its submarine base at the isolated tropical atoll Diego Garcia, which is formally British territory. The base improvements will allow its new class of SSGN nuclear submarines to opera...
Inchgarvie lies beneath the Forth Rail Bridge, where the channel narrows to just 1.5 kms wide between North and South Queensferry. Steep cliffs plunge down into deep canyons gouged out by glacial ice more than 10,000 years ago. A craggy island of hard rock rears up between, with its long volcanic tai...
Airways New Zealand, which manages New Zealand's air traffic, said it had been warned by Russian authorities that an obsolete satellite was due to fall into the Pacific Ocean on Wednesday. But the debris had apparently fallen into the area 12 hours earlier than the time advised by the Russians. A spo...
The international H.E.S.S. team has won the coveted Descartes prize for Basic Research (worth £226,000) for their work studying some of the most violent phenomena in the Universe. H.E.S.S. is the High Energy Stereoscopic System telescopes in Namibia, South-West Africa. The H.E.S.S. team curre...
The hype has subsided and now chaos theory is a ubiquitous part of science. Chaos theory, the study of how tiny fluctuations can have tremendous effects within a moving system, emerged in mainstream physics about 30 years ago. The signa...
Jim Roe is looking for a home for big telescopes.
The executive director of the Alliance for Astronomy, a nonprofit organisation, has been searching for a site to build a centre since its board was organized in 2004. The centre would include a small planetarium and an observing field with two large...