* Astronomy

A large fireball was seen by many witnesses on the 9th August at 23:28 JST (14:28:41 UT) in Japan. The bright meteor was recorded by several CCD cameras in the Fireball Network in Japan. Read more

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Buildings shook and windows rattled with a series of loud booms heard up and down the northern beaches of the Outer Banks of North Carolina, US, shortly before 11 a.m. Tuesday. They may have been caused by aircraft breaking the sound barrier. "The only thing we can attribute it to is offsh...

Sunspot 10904, is emerging over the sun's eastern limb.

Title: Snapping Supernovae at z>1.7 Authors: Greg Aldering, Alex G. Kim, Marek Kowalski, Eric V. Linder, Saul Perlmutter Researchers examine the utility of very high redshift Type Ia supernovae for cosmology and systematic uncertainty control. Next generation spa...

Wired News has removed three articles from its website after an internal investigation failed to confirm the authenticity of a source used in the stories. "Tribal Curse Haunts Launch Pad" (June 27, 2006), "NASA Boosts Heart-Monitoring Tech" (July 7, 2006) and "Don't Flus...

There was no plane crash or any explosion of an aircraft Tuesday night, the Air Transportation Office said yesterday, after residents in some towns in northern Cebu reported such sightings. ATO tower chief Manuel Tompar said all the 157 commercial flights between 11 p.m. Monday and 11 p.m. Tuesd...

A Vietnamese farmer has discovered a 10,000-year-old musical instrument called the dan da (lithophone) in the central province of Binh Thuan (Vietnam). The instrument, comprising eight stone slabs, was unearthed in late July by Nguyen Van Thanh who lives in Ham My District of Ham Thuan Nam Commun...

Tonight, Microsoft is about to release the Flight Simulator X playable demo. The Simulation will eventually use the upcoming DirectX 10 Application Programming Interface. The demo will feature the location of St. Maarten in the Caribbean and include 2 airports and 3 missions of pr...

A couple marked their housewarming party by releasing floating paraffin lanterns into the night sky — and found themselves part of a UFO investigation. When Paul McKinney, and Emma Henfrey, from Seaham, Co Durham, UK, heard that police had received sightings of glowing lights in the sky, incl...

The Domesday Book has been digitised by the UK National Archives, and is now available online. The Domesday Book is one of our earliest surviving public records, and the foundation document of The National Archives. The census and inventory was ordered by William the Conquerer in 1085, 19...

The new sunspot 10903 is emerging from the sun's eastern limb.

A retired middle school teacher in northwest China's Shaanxi Province has discovered two new butterfly species, which may be unique to China, according to butterfly experts. Zoologists have named the two species, which have just been listed in the World Butterfly Catalogue, Ypthima pse...

Location of as yet unreported impact crater Latitude 21°21'26.26"N Longitude 20°45'12.24"E

Title: A Study of Giant Pulses from PSR J1824-2452A Authors: H. S. Knight, M. Bailes, R. N. Manchester, S. M. Ord We have searched for microsecond bursts of emission from millisecond pulsars in the globular cluster M28 using the Parkes radio telescope. We detected a total of 2...