Tropical Cyclone Favio is forecast to strike land in Mozambique in about 42 hours. The probability for a category 1 or above is 35%, the probability for a tropical storm is 55%.
Gramophone magazine has unearthed what one sound recording expert describes as "the biggest attempt at recording theft ever." Thanks to the internet, the formerly obscure British classical pianist Joyce Hatto had become a critical favourite shortly before her death last year. The p...
Numerosos testimonios de vecinos de Rosario de Lerma y Quijano aseguraron que el objeto volador no identificado visto surcar los cielos el jueves 18 de enero pasado en la zona cordillerana, no pudo tratarse de una bomba de disipación de tormenta de granizo. "Más bien se parecía a una enorme bol...
Wales has had its fair share of UFO sightings over the years. In the '70s an entire class of primary school children in Broadhaven, West Wales, claimed to have seen a UFO landing and aliens get out.The pictures they drew of what they had seen - a cigar-shaped object - appeared uncannily similar. [u...
The Queen Mary 2 has arrived in Sydney ahead of a reunion of the Cunard's royal liners. Aboard Chris Butler, an astronomer from Buena Park, has since Feb. 5, been cruising the Pacific, and giving the planetarium show aboard the Queen Mary 2 as the liner crossed from San Francisco to Australia. Ma...
Brazil-Ukraine space company to start operating this year An agreement between the two countries establishes that Brazil will open up its space base in Alcântara, in the northern Brazilian state of Maranhão, and Ukraine will provide its rocket launching technology. The objective is to enter the...
A Mexican researcher announced the rare find of a tiny tree frog completely preserved in amber on Wednesday that he estimates lived about 25 million years ago. The chunk of amber containing the 0.4-inch frog was uncovered by a miner in southern Chiapas states in 2005 and was bought by a private collec...
Something happened at around 9 p.m. Wednesday that a lot of people heard. But nobody seems to have any idea what it was. “It” was a loud bang, something loud enough to be heard all over the county, and loud enough to make small objects move in houses. Reports have rolled into The Advocate from Hanover to H...
If you are a student interested in astronomy and willing to learn more, perhaps the place to visit is the Periyar Science and Technology Centre, Kotturpuram, where an exhibition on `the world of astronomical observatories' is on. The month-long expo has been organised by the Tamil Nadu Scienc...
HEX2 a success: 4-rocket aurora experiment launches from Poker Flat An experiment called HEX2 that consisted of four NASA suborbital sounding rockets, launched from Poker Flat Research Range during an aurora display over northern Alaska this morning. Each rocket emitted vapour trails in an exp...
Louisiana State University professor resolves Einstein's twin paradox Subhash Kak, Delaune Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at LSU, recently resolved the twin paradox, known as one of the most enduring puzzles of modern-day physics. First suggested by Al...
Strange lights with no obvious cause were spotted all over northern Franklin County Tuesday night, Sheriff's Department dispatchers said. "The phone was ringing off the hook" - Bill Hoyt, dispatcher. Multiple callers from multiple towns - New Vineyard, Wilton, Phillips, Indus...
Yesterday, scientists from the University of Alaska's Poker Flat Research Range, Skiland, Alaska, launched a rocket at 3:45am local time to study auroras: Rockets are launched sev...
Scientists from the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) have been asked to help explore ruins in and around the ancient Nalanda University in Bihar. P.K. Mishra, the superintending archaeologist of the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI), Patna circle, said the radar mapping would help...
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