According to the Beijing Seismological Bureau, the Chinese capital is to construct 130 earthquake monitoring stations by the end of this year.
Currently the city has 70 monitoring stations. The extra monitoring stations will provide more accurate coverage for the region.
This month mark...
Purdue University has initiated establishment of a world class real-time remote sensing ground station array, capable of receiving synoptic data from multiple panchromatic, multispectral, hyperspectral and radar sensors, at a wide range of spatial resolutions, aboard current and soon-to-...
Northern Norway was hit with an impact comparable to the atomic bomb used on Hiroshima.
At around 2:05 a.m. on Wednesday, residents of the northern part of Troms and the western areas of Finnmark could clearly see a ball of fire taking several seconds to travel across the sky.
A few minutes late...
An ancient pathway, part of the remarkable trade and cultural routes of Australia that predate the Silk Road, the Roman roads and other great roads of world antiquity, has been nominated as National Heritage of Australia.
The Bundian Way, a corridor including the old pathways used to walk to an...
Microsoft has never released a service pack for Windows98 SE! So here it is; the 'unofficial Service Pack 2.1a'. It contains all Windows98 SE updates from Windows Update site and more integrated into a self-extracting and self-installing pack like Microsoft's update files.
You cannot choos...
Title: Extended Emission by Dust in the Dwarf Galaxy UGC 10445
Authors: J. L. Hinz, K. Misselt, M. J. Rieke, G. H. Rieke, P. S. Smith, M. Blaylock, K. D. Gordon (U. Arizona)
Researchers present Spitzer Space Telescope images of the isolated dwarf galaxy UGC 10445. The galaxy is...
The U.S. military said it had successfully tested a missile-shield component built by Lockheed Martin Corp. on Wednesday, to shoot down a ballistic missile in the last minute or so of its flight.
The so-called Terminal High Altitude Area Defence weapon system, or THAAD, "exceeded its obje...
This mosaic of three images, taken by the advanced Moon Imaging Experiment (AMIE) on board ESA's SMART-1 spacecraft, shows the area close to the Sulpicius Gallus crater on the Moon.
AMIE obtained this sequence on 18 March 2006, from a distance of 1200 kilometres from the surface, with a ground r...
Microsoft has made its Virtual PC 2004 virtualisation application free to download. There's no trial out period and no crippled demo. Users who were interested in testing out various operating systems on their Windows PC can now do so free of charge.
Microsoft says "whether Microsoft virtua...
A meteorite weighing around two kilos landed right in the yard outside Bjørn Herigstad's home in coastal Jæren, western Norway, over the weekend. It's the second meteorite-landing in Norway in a month, and experts are calling the incident sensational.
Bjørn Herigstad says he found the meteo...
Thunder Sword Resources Inc. is pleased to report that early analyses of the Megatem airborne data suggests that the Kercher Lake Block of claims provides interesting features.
"This area displays some oddly interesting features. The digital terrain elevation values derived from the G...
An ice ball that landed on a pavement in Douglasdale, South Africa, last week, might be one of the first "megacryometeors" recorded in Africa.
Professor Jesus Martinez-Frias of the Centro de Astrobiologica in Madrid said that despite sharing many chemical characteristics with hail, ice bal...
Loral Skynet do Brasil, a subsidiary of Loral Space & Communications, today announced that it has signed a contract with Chile's Empresa Nacional de Telecomunicaciones S.A. (ENTEL), the country's second largest telecommunications company, to provide nationwide fixed satellite communicati...
A microchip which can store information like a hard drive has been unveiled by US company Freescale.
The chip, called magnetoresistive random-access memory (Mram), maintains data by relying on magnetic properties rather than an electrical charge.
One analyst told the Associated Press n...
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