An ancient castle in east China dating back 370 years has collapsed after being hit by typhoons that continued to sweep the area over the past three months.
Nine houses in the Caipu Castle, in Yunxiao County of Fujian Province, fell down after being soaked in flood for weeks while more than 200 squar...
Hundreds gathered on Washington mountaintop.
About 700 stargazers set up a makeshift village at 6,300 feet in the thin mountain air of the Washington Cascades, where they lived for three days.
The annual Table Mountain Star Party, which was held in late July, is now in its 26th year and brings...
The Channel 8 switchboard was bombarded with calls overnight from viewers who said they saw a strange, bright light in the North Texas sky after 11 p.m. Tuesday.
Callers described it as a bright orange oval with a blue lightning coming from it.
"I was out moving my trash cans and noted a flash...
In a departure from its core activities of providing networking and IT support to SMEs, Cardiff-based TiGra Networks has set up and automated two astronomical observatories for Space Exploration Limited, based in County Roscommon, Ireland. The project has been developed over the past 18 months...
The ancient temple system on the Hawaiian island of Maui was built over the course of at least 500 years, with cycles of construction peaking in periods of political tension, a new study finds.
The study, the most detailed of its kind to date, will be published in a forthcoming issue of Current Ant...
Sar Torbat is an ancient site in Rasht, Gilan province, dating back 3,500 years, which has been registered on National Heritage List, an archaeologist told IRNA's English paper, the Iran Daily.
Vali Jahani said that an ancient cemetery and a mausoleum are located at the historical site.
The...
Scientists on Friday celebrated 50 years of India's first nuclear research reactor Apsara, which has played a key role in research in areas as diverse as forensic science and the study of lunar and meteorite fragments.
There has been no looking back for the country's atomic programme since Aps...
Title: Spin Exchange Rates in Electron-Hydrogen Collisions
Authors: Steven Furlanetto (Yale), Michael Furlanetto (LANL)
The spin temperature of neutral hydrogen, which determines the 21 cm optical depth and brightness temperature, is set by the competition between r... >
Title: Determination of the superhump period of the dwarf nova V701 Tau during the 2005 December superoutburst
Authors: Jeremy Shears, David Boyd
We report new measurements of the superhump period of the UGSU-type dwarf nova V701 Tau during the 2005 December superoutburs...
Title: Spitzer Observations of Var Her 04: Possible Detection of Dust Formation in a Super-Outbursting TOAD
Authors: David R. Ciardi, Stefanie Wachter, D. W. Hoard, Steve B. Howell, Gerard T. van Belle
Researchers present four MIPS (24 µm) and two IRAC (3.6, 4.5, 5.8, and 8....
Title: The Spiral Host Galaxy of the Double Radio Source 0313-192
Authors: William C. Keel, Raymond E. White III, Frazer N. Owen, Michael J. Ledlow
We present new Hubble, Gemini-S, and Chandra observations of the radio galaxy 0313-192, which hosts a 350-kpc double source an...
Title: CG Draconis, a particularly active dwarf nova
Authors: Jeremy Shears, Roger Pickard, Gary Poyner
The dwarf nova CG Dra was intensively monitored during 2005 as part of the Variable Star Sections Recurrent Objects Programme and seven outbursts were detected. These...
Hundreds of thousands of people were evacuated as Typhoon Prapiroon slammed into southern China Thursday, pounding an already battered area with more heavy rains and winds.
The storm packed 75 mph winds as it made landfall over a stretch of coastal Guangdong province, according to the state m...
Snow fell on Johannesburg, South Africa for the first time in 25 years as icy temperatures gripped vast swathes of the country.
"It is by no means freakish but I would certainly classify it as rare" - Kevin Rae, assistant manager of forecasting at the South African Weather Service in Pret...
