Cloudy grey weather is sometimes caused by cosmic rays.
New evidence that events in outer space affect the weather and climate of Earth has been revealed in a study by meteorologists at the University of Reading published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society on Wednesday 18 January, 2006.
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The Loess Plateau has been proved to have been a lake and the current peak an islet some 60 million years ago. Archaeologists and geologists were able to confirm this after testing ancient fossils found at the site.
Long, long ago, the region of Guyuan in northwest China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Re...
Text-powered search is so fundamental to life online that alternatives seem like far-flung fantasy.
Programmer Christian Langreiter, a 27-year-old Austrian, was hired by a European software company to make one alternative real. His creation: Retrievr, a search engine for images based enti...
According to the US National Nuclear Security Administration, British and US government scientists performed an underground nuclear experiment at the Nevada Test Site on Tuesday.
The experiment involved detonating high explosives around subcritical radioactive processed nuclear plu...
Element 118 has been created in experiments conducted at the Flerov Laboratory of Nuclear Reactions in Dubna, Russia by a collaboration of researchers from Russia's Joint Institute for Nuclear Research and the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California.
Element 118, the heaviest...
Launch Schedule of Large Deployable Reflector Small-sized Partial Model 2 (LDREX-2)
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has announce that, today, they were informed by Arianespace that the launch schedule of the launch vehicle that will carry their Large Deployable Reflector S...
One of Bodmin Moor's most attractive and accessible stone circles is to undergo repairs. The Trippet Stones stand on Manor Common, between Bodmin and Blisland (Cornwall, England). The circle, which was originally comprised of 27 stones, was erected about 4,000 years ago during the Bronze Age whe...
A strong magnitude 6.3 earthquake occurred at 17:08:20 (UTC) on Thursday, October 12, 2006, in the Turkmenistan region, about 45 km Northeast of Balkanabat (Nebitdag), Turkmenistan.
The hypocentral depth was estimated to be 41.2 km.
Location 39.811°N, 54.730°E
Chinese President Hu Jintao sent a congratulatory letter to a conference celebrating the 50th anniversary of the founding of China's spaceflight program on Friday morning.
Hu said that the aerospace industry is a signif...
Tropical storm Norman is forecast to strike Mexico at about 18:00 GMT on 15 October. Data supplied by the US Navy and Air Force Joint Typhoon Warning Centre suggest that the point of landfall will be near 18.7 N, 104.6 W. Norman is expected to bring 1-minute maximum sustained winds to the region of arou...
A team of archaeologists and bushwalkers on an expedition in Wollemi National Park — just 100km from Sydney — have discovered an almost-complete hafted stone axe, hidden on a ledge at the back of a rock shelter.
It is thought to be the first time such an item has been found in place anywhere in the Sydn...
UCLA astronomy professor Ned Wright, PhD, will speak to the Ventura County Astronomical Society at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 20 in the Forum Auditorium at Moorpark College.
Wright, a Harvard graduate, will speak on "Observing the Origin of the Universe."
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A naming ceremony was held yesterday in the city of Rui'an, in east China's Zhejiang Province, to name an asteroid from the solar system after Rui'an Middle School, local education authorities said.
It is the first time an asteroid has been named after a Chinese middle school.
The asteroid wa...
Title: The Star Formation History of the Virgo early-type galaxy NGC4435: the Spitzer Mid Infrared view
Authors: P. Panuzzo (1), O. Vega (2), A. Bressan (1,2,4), L. Buson (1), M. Clemens (1), R. Rampazzo (1), L. Silva (3), J. R. Valdes (2), G. L. Granato (1,4), L. Danese (4) ((1) INA...
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