A new study has shown that radioactive emissions from a 1959 nuclear accident at a Boeing Co. research lab near Simi Valley, California, could have caused hundreds of cancers in surrounding communities.
Chemical contamination from rocket engine testing at the site appears to have been much gre...
Yesterday, China marked their Moon Festival by announcing 30 songs that will be broadcast from its first lunar satellite next year.
Folk ballads suggested by the public, such as My Wonderful Home Town, I Love China, Singing Praises of Motherland and 27 other songs were ch...
Plans for a major housing development in an Easter Ross village have been changed to preserve the line of sight linking two ancient monuments with the setting sun on certain ancient Celtic festivals.
Earlier plans for the proposed development at Balblair Farm, Station Road, Edderton, by Tain...
Title: X-ray Flashes or soft Gamma-ray Bursts? The case of the likely distant XRF 040912
Authors: G. Stratta, S. Basa, N. Butler, J. L. Atteia, B. Gendre, A. Pelangeon, F. Malacrino, Y. Mellier, D. A. Kann, S. Klose, A. Zeh, N. Masetti, E. Palazzi, J. Gorosabel, A. J. Castro-Tirado...
A website that aims to record the history of videogame innovation is calling on games fanatics for help.
The Game Innovation Database (GIDb), as the website is known, has been developed by a team at Pittsburgh's Carnegie Mellon University.
The online encyclopaedia is similar to Wikipedia a...
Giving your digital camera a virus may not sound very smart, but a memory chip that incorporates millions of viruses may just be the fastest thing around.
By coating 30-nanometre-long chunks of tobacco mosaic virus with platinum nanoparticles, it’s possible to create a transistor with very f...
The Shuttle Atlantis (ISS 12A) STS-115 is scheduled to launch at 20:25-20:35 GMT (4:25-4:35 p.m. EDT) on August 27th, 2006, from LC-39B, Kennedy Space Centre, Florida.
The nineteenth U.S. mission to the International Space Station, will deliver and attach the next port truss segment to the sta...
2006 TC1 Earth Impact Risk Summary based on 21 observations spanning .98657 days
(2006-Oct-03.31668 to 2006-Oct-04.30325)
Date Distance Probability Energy Palermo Torino
2015-02-13.26 0.12 1.1e-08 7.84e+03 -4.23
[url=http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/ri...
India is now gearing up to produce as many as 1,000 more T-90S main-battle tanks, in addition to the 310 such tanks already imported from Russia, to add "more teeth" to its armoured might.
The Army gameplan is to have 21 regiments of T-90S 'Bhishma' tanks and 40 regiments of upgraded T-72 M1 'Ajeya' t...
Here's the hypothesis 1. The age of the universe is 14 billion years 2. The 'oldest' object observed so far is 12 billion years old 3. The big bang happened
The implosion observed actually happened 2 billion years after the big bang. Assume that at that point the objects were 4 billion light years apa...
NASA's Hubble Discovers Extrasolar Planet Across Our Galaxy NASA will host a science update at 1 p.m. EDT, Wednesday, Oct. 4, to discuss a Hubble Space Telescope discovery of extrasolar planet candidates orbiting a variety of distant stars. The update will be in the NASA Headquarters Audi...
In several regions of Turkey, there was a surprise visit by a "UFO" on Saturday night. However, the object is thought to be meteor.
A flaming blaze ball in the sky caused a surprise on Saturday night. Telephone calls were made from all over the country to the route control centre at Ankara Esenbo ...
A mysterious equipment failure has crippled part of the UK's superfast educational network JANET (Joint Academic Network).
Customer service representatives have been informed of two problems that could be affecting the academic network. Aberdeen City Council reported that its network has...
Archaeologists have discovered a goat statuette and a bas relief of a lizard buried along a skeleton of a woman in a cemetery in Narges Tappeh, an ancient site near Gorgan in Golestan province, reported Tehran Times on Monday.
"The goat statuette was located under the left arm of the woman, wh...
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