What's certain is that something's written in the stone. What's less certain is whether the markings have any historical significance.
Now, University of Illinois scientists have agreed to examine the limestone slab some believe proves French explorer Robert Cavelier de LaSalle was the fi...
Space Systems/Loral (SS/L), a subsidiary of Loral Space & Communications Inc. , today announced that it has been awarded a contract to build the TerreStar-2 MSS (mobile satellite services) satellite for TerreStar Networks Inc. TerreStar's two satellite system, which includes the TerreStar-1...
An alert has been sounded in Surat, Bharuch, Kheda, Narmada, Anand and Vadodara districts of Gujarat as the Narmada dam is reportedly overflowing.
The inflow is expected to go up by 3-4 times over the next 24 hours.
Movement of heavy vehicles heading for cities beyond Surat and national highway...
A team of Gemini Observatory astronomers led by Tom Geballe, and Spanish colleague Francisco Najarro (Instituto de Estructura de la Materia, Madrid), have proven that the star at the core of a spectacular cosmic bow shock near the Galactic Centre is indeed an evolved young massive star. It may also...
Windows Server 2003 is well known for its superior speed, stability, and security when compared to Windows XP. This fact is proven by Microsoft's use of the Windows Server 2003 kernel in both Windows x64 Edition and the upcoming Windows Vista.
Given this fact, it's no wonder that many Windows us...
A dark horse has jumped into the race to solve the mystery of dark energy. NASA has given the nod to a radical new method to probe this unknown force, which is causing the expansion of the universe to accelerate. It involves looking for the imprint of primordial sound waves.
NASA's decision to...
it seems to me that there is not enough hype about this whole finding three new planets.:hmm: I am curious why IAU will not give these planets name due to the fact that they do not fall under there defination of what a planet is.:bleh: As well what is with the deal on the transneptunian thing...
France will launch the Syracuse 3B military communications satellite, on August 11, 2006, from Kourou, French Guiana.
"The launch of the Syracuse 3B by an Ariane 5 ECA r...
Sunspot 10904 is growing larger
The two spots mark the location of the poles of a magnetic field on the Suns surface; the northpole is on the left and the southpole on the right.
A new light microscope so powerful that it allows scientists peering inside cells to discern the precise location of nearly each individual protein they are studying has been developed and successfully demonstrated by scientists at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute's Janelia Farm Research C...
An alleged plot to blow up planes in flight from the UK to the US and commit "mass murder on an unimaginable scale" has been disrupted, Scotland Yard has said.
It is thought the plan was to detonate explosive devices smuggled in hand luggage on to as many as 10 aircraft.
Police are searchi...
Dancer DNA is a software product that generates 3D animations that respond immediately to music. Analysing a music feed in real-time, Dancer DNA creates amazing animations that dance. It brings together computers, music, evolutionary theory, and fast 3D graphics to enable you to evolve infinit...
Long predicted by theory, the Smithsonian's Submillimeter Array has found the first conclusive evidence of an hourglass-shaped magnetic field in a star formation region. Measurements indicate that material in the interstellar cloud is dense enough to allow it to gravitationally collapse, wa...
Title: GCIRS16SW: a massive eclipsing binary in the Galactic Center
Authors: F. Martins (1), S. Trippe (1), T. Paumard (1), T. Ott (1), R. Genzel (1 and 2), G. Rauw (3), F. Eisenhauer (1), S. Gillessen (1), H. Maness (2), R. Abuter (4) ((1) MPE, (2) Univ. California, (3) Univ. Liege,...
According to the Chinese meteorological observatory, heavy rainstorms brought by Typhoon Saomai will hit the coastal and southern parts of east China's Zhejiang Province.
Heavy rains will hit Wenzhou, Taizhou, Ningbo and the eastern part of Lishui in Zhejiang from Wednesday night till Frida...
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