The first Tropical Storm that may become a hurricane this season has formed.
Tropical Storm Alberto is heading towards the Florida panhandle.
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A comprehensive survey of more than 4,000 elliptical and lenticular galaxies in 93 nearby galaxy clusters has found a curious case of galactic “downsizing.”
Contrary to expectations, the largest, brightest galaxies in the census consist almost exclusively of very old stars, with much of thei...
GOOGLE will start an online payment system this month that will challenge eBay's PayPal and let Google offer more targeted ads
Some are reporting that Google’s GBuy system is set for release on June 28th. Others have it on June 25th.
The potential of Google as an online shop has rivals worried....
SegaToys HomeStar, from Japan, is a small home projector that turns your rooms ceiling into a planetarium.
Using interchangeable plates, it can display to 10,000 stars (northern or southern hemisphere) and constellations.
A built-in motor simulates the earth's rotation.
An interestin...
A new species of insect has been discovered among more than 1,000 rare creatures catalogued for a survey of the Cairngorm Mountains in Scotland.
The results of the study are included in a book launched by Scottish Natural Heritage on Monday.
The Christii fly (Ectaetia christii) was d...
Title: Spitzer observations of HH54 and HH7-11: mapping the H2 ortho-to-para ratio in shocked molecular gas
Authors: David A. Neufeld (JHU), Gary J. Melnick (CfA), Paule Sonnentrucker (JHU), Edwin A. Bergin (Michigan), Joel D. Green, Kyoung Hee Kim, Dan M. Watson, William J. F...
This image, taken by the High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) on board ESA's Mars Express spacecraft, show the caldera of Apollinaris Patera, an ancient, 5-kilometre-high volcano northwest of Gusev Crater.
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The coastal village of Applecross was rocked yesterday afternoon by an earthquake which was felt across a wide area of remote Wester Ross in the north-west Scottish Highlands.
The lunchtime tremor measured 3.1 on the Richter Scale.
It was felt in communities at least 25 miles away and was the...
Meteor shower sparks calls to police
A meteor shower was visible throughout New Zealand last night, prompting calls to police about distress flares.
Inspector Kristy Meates said 10 calls were logged between 7pm and 7.40pm in the central and lower North Island. More calls were repor...
Shaula, the second brightest star in Scorpius, is only half as far from Earth as the Hipparcos satellite indicated, say astronomers in Australia, America, and Europe. New interferometric observations show that Shaula's Hipparcos distance is off by several hundred light-years.
Sh...
Today is the Incan new year.
Astronomy played a key role in Inca culture, and agriculture.
Like most ancient agricultural cultures, they calculated impo...
RealSky was the name of a commercially digital photographic sky atlas. It was a subset of the Digitized Sky Survey (DSS) and was published in 1996 by the Astronomical Society of the Pacific.
RealSky was composed of the "RealSky" product, covering the northern sky, and "RealSky South," publish...
A new species of mini-dinosaur has been unearthed in a quarry at Oker, Germany.
The creature was of the sauropod type - that group of long-necked, four-footed herbivores that were the largest of all the dinosaurs.
But at just 1.7 to 6.2metres in length, this animal was considerably smaller than...
Archaeologists yesterday said they have unearthed a number of prehistoric sites at the upper stream of Pahro Lake of Gangwon Province, Korea, and urged the local government to reconsider its plan on a water project that would demolish the relics.
Yanggu County Office plans to construct a wate...
