WE ALL know what happens if you fall into a black hole. It's not pretty - you get ripped limb from limb before vanishing down the plughole.
However, there is a way for you to live inside a black hole: find one that has five dimensions. Life inside a 5D black hole is known to be rather more sustainable than...
New launchbar for AmigaOS and MorphosIMAGEFeatures
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- Icon launch bar
- Customisable
- Skin able (6 skins included)
- 3 included catalogue files (Catalan, Span...
MemOptimizer 3.0.51 monitors your system in the background and frees resources when these are required.
The result is that your programs will run faster and be more stable than ever before.
Features :
* Speed up your computer by managing your memory
* Automatically re...
Scientists from the Beijing-based Institute of High Energy Physics (IHEP), the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and the University of Hawaii recently reported the discovery of a new sub-atomic particle known as "X1835."
"If this discovery is accompanied by more experimental d...
The Spitzer Space Telescope has identified two huge "hypergiant" stars circled by monstrous disks of what might be planet-forming dust. The findings surprised astronomers because stars as big as these were thought to be inhospitable to planets.
"These extremely massive stars a...
George C. Deutsch, the unqualified presidential appointee at NASA who told a Web designer to add the word "theory" at every mention of the Big Bang, resigned yesterday.
NASA might get someone qualified for the job next time.
The big bang theory is indeed a theory; but the laypersons us...
A magnitude 5 + earthquake shook Georgia early on Monday morning, according to the Georgian National Seismology Centre.
The epicentre of the quake occurred on the administrative border between the Ambrolauri and Oni districts in northwest of the country.
According to Otari Siradze, the gov...
Occultation of C313.2 by Charon
On July 11 2005, Scientists from MIT (Cambridge, Mass.) and Williams College (Williamstown, Mass.) observed Pluto's moon, Charon, occult the star C313.2.
"We have been waiting many years for this opportunity. Watching Charon appr...
Astronomers using the Keck II Laser Telescope in Hawaii, have found that the two Trojan asteroids, 617 Patroclus and its companion, Menoetius, have a density of only 0.8 grams per cubic centimetre— much less dense than normal asteroids should be.
This leads the researchers to th...
More than 145 lakes have been identified beneath the thick Antarctic ice sheet from ice-penetrating radar. Most of these lakes, captured between 3-4 kilometres of ice, are several kilometres long and are primarily located beneath the major ice divides.
Now two new lakes have been found benea...
Residents in Calgary, Canada, awoke to a fire in the sky early Wednesday morning.
Alan Hildebrand, co-ordinator of the Canadian Fireball Reporting Centre, said 20 people reported seeing a fireball, an exceptionally bright meteor, streak across the sky just before 7 a.m., lasting for severa...
An experimental satellite designed to test autonomous technologies by rendezvousing with space debris and defunct spacecraft was launched aboard a Pegasus booster on Monday 11th April 2005.
It took...
The submergence into the sea of the city of Dwaraka, vividly pictured in the great epic of Mahabaratha, has been found to be true.
A chance discovery made by a team of scientists, in the Gulf of Cambay region, establishes that the Mahabaratha story is not a myth. The rich city with fertile landscape a...
An ancient standing stone may be set to share its field with thousands of building blocks. Developers plan to build 21 new flats near the site of the rural relic at Cardrona (Peebleshire, Scotland). But local historical and environmental organisations have raised concern about the proposal.
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Dozens of people throughout Tenerife jammed the 112 emergency hotline on the night of January 10, all claiming to have witnessed something strange in the sky: a ball of fire flying through the sky in the direction of Gran Canaria trailing a green light.
One man who contacted the local media told h...