Athens' latest archaeological attraction opened on Monday several metres underground, as visitors and commuters passing through the Greek capital's Monastiraki metro station will be able to peer into excavations revealing the Eridanos River bed -- one of ancient Athens' oft-cited streams. T...
A baffling device which resembles a satellite or Unidentified Flying Object (U.F.O) has landed in a rural area close to Buulo-Burde town, 220km north of the Somalia capital Mogadishu, eyewitnesses told Shabelle radio on Monday. Villagers report that the device had fallen in a remote jungle area,...
VLT Image of Bright Supernova in the Spiral Galaxy NGC 5584 in Virgo Until now NGC 5584 was just one galaxy among many others, located to the West of the Virgo Cluster. Known only as a number in galaxy surveys, its sheer beauty is now revealed in all its glory in a new VLT image. Since 1 March, this purple co...
A robotic telescope with a 24-inch diameter main mirror and Ritchey-Chrtien optics was built for OSU by Optical Guidance Systems, Inc., and installed the week of February 915, 2007. It is the largest, most modern telescope in Oklahoma. It was funded by a $231,000 grant from the Air Force Office of Sc...
Remains from a 95-million-year-old marine creature with nubs for legs is clarifying how some lizards shed their limbs as they crept through evolutionary time and morphed into slinky snakes. Described in the current issue of the Journal of Vertebrate Palaeontology, the snake-like lizard had a sm...
Tropical Storm BECKY is forecast to strike land to the following likelihood(s) at the given lead time(s):Red Alert Country(s) or Province(s)Vanuatu probability for CAT 1 or above is 50% in about 18 hours probability for TS is 75% within 6 hoursRed Alert City(s) and Town(s) ...
SREL geologist verifies University of Georgias first meteorite Chris Romanek knows it's probably a wild goose chase. After all, he goes on one about once a month. Romanek, a geologist with the University of Georgia's Savannah River Ecology Laboratory, is always eager, though, because h...
Title: Eclipsing binaries observed with the WIRE satellite. II. beta Aurigae and non-linear limb darkening in light curves Authors: John Southworth (University of Warwick, UK), Hans Bruntt (University of Sydney, Australia), Derek L. Buzasi (US Air Force Academy) We present the most precise li...
Christopher Tolkien has completed the last book of J.R.R. Tolkien from notes left from his father. The first new Tolkien novel for 30 years is to be published next month. In a move eagerly anticipated by millions of fans across the world, The Children of Húrin will be released worldwide on 17 April, 89...
A satellite handling mobile phone calls in London has been backed by the London Development Agency (LDA). The technology will reduce the need for unpopular masts and could also be used to track motorists, the LDA said. The agency voted to provide £12m in grants to London-based communications firm I...
Appropriating cellulose fibres from cotton and crystallizing them, scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have grown never-before-seen configurations of metal crystals that show promise as components in biosensors, biological imaging, drug delivery and catalytic converte...
A piece of the planet Mars could be yours for the bargain price of several thousand dollars. The extraterrestrial artefact and some 350 other offerings will be put up for sale in a simultaneous New York City/Beverly Hills auction this weekend by I.M. Chait, the California auctioneer that is selling...
North Hollywood junkyard: one giant heap for mankind Mounds of titanium and steel glinted in the afternoon sun, valves and pipes protruding in all directions like half-formed metal organisms. In one corner of the warehouse was a twin of the Apollo command module engine that brought Buzz Aldrin and...
India's first science village in Assam soon In strife-torn Assam countryside, a unique experiment in science popularisation will soon get underway. A 75-acre 'science village' — the first of its kind in India — is being set up in rural Jamugurihat, about 250 km from Guwahati, where r...
Bronze-age stone circle and causeway found underwater near to Clickhimin Broch using Google Earth.... "Redaktion des SchottlandPortal entdeckt mit GOOGLE-Earth unbekanntes Bodendenkmal auf Shetland Die Tatsache, dass Google-Earth mehr als ein nettes Spielzeug sein kann, wurde scho...
