Scientists have created a tiny cable - much thinner than a human hair - through which they can transmit visible light, potentially paving the way for improvements in solar energy, computing and medicine.
The achievement, described in research published on Monday in the journal Applied Physics...
A magnitude 16.0, supernova, 2007A, was discovered on the 2nd January, 2007, by Tim Puckett and T. Orff; LOSS, in the galaxy NGC 105.
The supernova was located 0".8 west and 10".8 north of the centre of NGC 105.
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Archaeologists and NASA experts are using satellite images to find jungle-covered ruins that had been hidden almost literally right under their noses. The 21st-century technology, highlighted in the latest instalment of PBS’ “Nova ScienceNow,” led to the discovery of ancient Maya settlement...
The online edition of Nature will publish, on 8 January 2007, a major scientific achievement in astronomy, in which European astronomers have participated, using a space telescope with ESA participation.
More details will be posted on the ESA TV Website and on the ESA Web Portal after Sunday nig...
A UFO was sighted at Lephalale, where it was described as a strange object "on an orange cloud, singing like a million turbines" - hitting the earth with a bang at 04:33 on Saturday.
That's according to Leonie Ras, the administrative manager of Lephalale (Ellisras) who witnessed the spect...
With the simultaneous release of 4567 balloons from the Courtyard of Burlington House, Mayfair on 10 January 2007, The Geological Society of London will celebrate not only its own 200th birthday, but also the 4567 millionth birthday of Planet Earth.
The Geological Society of London was founded...
Tropical storm Clovis is heading towards Madagascar.
Data supplied by the US Navy and Air Force Joint Typhoon Warning Centre suggest that the point of landfall will be near 19.5 S, 49.0 E.
Clovis currently has 1-minute maximum sustained winds of around 64 km/h. Wind gusts maybe considerably hi...
Meteorite enthusiasts can now see an exhibit at the Aerospace Education Centre in Little Rock, Arkansas, of around 20 pieces of the solar system that have fallen to Earth.
The centre is displaying meteorites that range in size from inches to more than 50 pounds as part of a new "Impact Earth! Met...
Red 'fireball' likely space junk
Minutes before she sat down to watch television Monday night, Marcie Kinney was beckoned by her husband and son to step outside of their Grant-Valkaria home.
A red fireball streaked across the sky from west to east just above the tree line.
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The physics story of the year 2006 was, we believe, the new high precision (0.76 parts per trillion uncertainty) measurement of the electron’s magnetic moment by Gerald Gabrielse and his colleagues at Harvard University. Then in a second paper the same experimenters used the new moment in tandem w...
It is a mechanical problem that has troubled scientists since Archimedes and the ancient Greeks, but now a Scottish electrician has come up with the answer - and it could help consumers save thousands of pounds in energy bills.
Ian Gilmartin, 60, has invented a mini water wheel capable of supplyin...
Sunspot 10933 has fully emerged from the Suns eastern limb. The Sunspot has already completed one solar rotation and is the return of Sunspot 10930. Two weeks ago it was the source of four intense X-fl...
A large meteorite was found recently near the Huangdi Mausoleum in Huangling County, northwest China's Shaanxi Province, which may be associated with the death of Huangdi, the legendary forefather of the Chinese nation.
Experts say the discovery of the meteorite has a great significance in an...
