Space Systems/Loral (SS/L), one of the world's leading satellite manufacturing and technology companies, today announced that it has recently completed satellite support operations for the award-winning Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites (GOES) program, bringing...
SpeedFan V4.26 is a freeware program that monitors fan speeds, temperatures and voltages in computers with hardware monitoring chips. It can even access S.M.A.R.T. info and show hard disk temperatures too, if supported.
What's News?
• greatly improved nVidia support (it should no longer...
Workshop on the Chronology of Meteorites and the Early Solar System The Workshop on the Chronology of Meteorites and the Early Solar System will be held November 5–7, 2007, at the Sheraton Kauai Resort, 2440 Hoonani Road, Poipu Beach, Koloa, Hawaii. [url=http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/me...
DETECTION OF A LARGE FLARE IN FR Cnc FR Cnc (= BD+16◦1753 = MCC 527 = 1ES 0829+15.9 = 1RXS J083230.9+154940 = HIP 41889 = GSC 01392-02634 = TYC 1392-2634-1) (alpha2000 = 08h32m30.s5287 and delta2000 = +15◦49′26.′′193) was first mentioned as a probable active star w...
University opens labs to detect life on Mars The search for life on other planets, and research into climate change, will be the focus for top space scientists and glaciologists when they gather at the University of Bristol on 9 February 2007. The event will be the opening of LOWTEX, the only facility...
Plans for a new summer Celtic music festival to showcase the rich culture of Fort Augustus to visitors and locals were unveiled at the weekend. NessFest, a project led by Feis Gleann Albainn and inspired by Highland 2007, will be on August 3 and 4, featuring concerts in the beautiful grounds of the fo...
Nina Finley and Bob McKinnon are not ones to avoid the obvious. Finley, a former Houston County schoolmarm who ended her career as county school superintendent, and McKinnon, retired from the lumber business, have earned a reputation for promoting local history in their hometown with its Irish na...
A recent DNA-based survey suggests the roots of Etruscans, a pre-Roman civilization in Italy, lie in Anatolia. According to the research conducted by genetic scientists in Italy's Pavia University, the roots of Etruscans were in the ancient Lydian region in Anatolia. The scientists have...
The extrasensory perception lab at Princeton University will be shuttered at the end of the month. The Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research laboratory will close after 28 years of studying ESP and telekinesis, research that embarrassed university officials and outraged the scientific co...
A Type Ia magnitude 15.8 supernova, 2007R, was discovered on the 26 January, 2007, by Tim Puckett and P. Gray in the galaxy UGC 4008 The supernova is located 1".9 west and 3".9 south of the centre of the galaxy. Position(2000): R.A. = 07h46m37s.53, Dec. = +44°47'22".1 [url=ht...
Scientists from the University of Alaska Fairbanks and the University of New Hampshire have experiments ready on the launch rails at Poker Flat Research Range north of Fairbanks, and another scientist is waiting in New Hampshire to launch an additional experiment from Poker Flat. The experiment...
NARVAL -- The first observatory dedicated to stellar magnetism NARVAL has just been installed on the 2m Télescope Bernard Lyot atop Pic du Midi. Like ESPaDOnS, its twin brother mounted on Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope, it is a stellar spectropolarimeter, ie an astronomical facility construc...
Suspected meteorite kills two nomads A suspected meteorite claimed the lives of two nomads and injured five others today at Banchola village in Rajasthan's Bundi district, police said. It was a blast-like situation and a crater was formed on the earth, they said. According to fellow nomads or...
