A strong magnitude 6.0 earthquake occurred at 10:57:36 (UTC) on Wednesday, July 19, 2006, in the Sunda Strait, Indonesia, 115 km South of T.-Telukbetung, Sumatra, at a Depth of 44.2 km.
Location 6.495°S, 105.415°E
On 8 July, at 05:41local time, a successful launch of a NASA scientific balloon carrying the scientific instrument TRACER was conducted from the SSC launch facility at Esrange Space Centre. The balloon has started its flight over the Atlantic towards North America where it will land in about a week...
A common loophole on ringtone websites means many people are downloading popular tunes without paying a penny, research shows.
Ringtone sellers could be losing more than 50m euros (£34.7m) a year through the loophole, said security firm QPass.
Almost one-third of 100 European websites se...
An image, taken by the advanced Moon Imaging Experiment (AMIE) on board ESA's SMART-1 spacecraft, shows the Gruithuisen area on the Moon.
Credits: ESA/SMART-1/Space-X (Space Exploration Institute)
AMIE obtained this sequence on 1 January 2006, from a distance of about 21...
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A tool provided by Microsoft could let people get around a check meant to prevent those with pirated copies of Windows from downloading additional software from the company, according to a security researcher.
Researcher Deb...
For centuries, world travellers have known of sand dunes that issue loud sounds, sometimes of great tonal quality. In the 12th century Marco Polo heard singing sand in China and Charles Darwin described the clear sounds coming from a sand deposit up against a mountain in Chile. Now, a team of scienti...
Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES), Orange France, and Alcatel announced today the selection of Toulouse and the Midi-Pyrenees Region for the first trial out side the laboratories of the main technical characteristics of the new mobile broadcasting solution over a hybrid satellite and...
Researchers at Hewlett-Packard Co. have developed a tiny wireless data chip that can store up to 100 pages of text, the company said on Sunday.
Developed over four years by HP Labs' campus in Bristol, England, the chip could ultimately be used in a variety of consumer and commercial application...
These images, taken by the High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) aboard ESA’s Mars Express spacecraft, show a large depression called Iani Chaos and the upper reaches of a large outflow channel called Ares Vallis.
Image strips were taken in October 2004, during three orbits from...
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Tens of scientists from different countries explore a place in Sevastopol, where seven ancient pyramids are presumably hidden underground. Archeological dig is underway.
Sevastopol researcher [B]Vitaly Gokh[/B] found the whereabouts of pyramids with the help of his unique pate...
Tropical storm Bilis, the fourth to threaten China this year, is heading, with a speed of 15 kilometres per hour, northwestwards towards southeast China, The storm has wind speeds near the centre of 18 meters per second.
According to experts with the Chinese provincial meteorological observat...
China's Ministry of Land and Resources has confirmed the discovery of huge natural gas reserves in South China Sea.
In a circular released on Thursday, the ministry announced the discovery of natural gas reserves exceeding 100 billion cubic meters in a prospect well named LW3-1-1.
It may be th...
Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling now has an asteroid named in her honour. The honour was bestowed by the International Astronomical Union, who named asteroid # 43844 'Rowling.'
Dr. Mark Hammergren who discovered the aste...
Title: X Muscae—A Large Amplitude Red Variable
Author: Peter F. Williams
X Muscae is amongst the stars listed in the General Catalogue of Variable Stars as "not studied." Visual observations by the author during the 5-year interval 1999 through 2003 indicate this is a large...
