| Catastrophic event halted birth of stars, say Durham researchers Scientists at Durham University's Department of Physics have found evidence of a catastrophic event that they believe was responsible for halting the birth of stars in a galaxy in the early... | |
| Water discovered in Apollo moon rocks Scientists have discovered tiny amounts of water in some of the famous moon rocks brought back to Earth by Apollo... |
| China Chooses First Women Astronauts China has selected its first two women astronauts to serve on a team that will undertake future missions launched by the nation's burgeoning space programme, state media reported Wednesday. The... |
| Japanese Baby-bot With Runny Nose Teaches Parenting Skills It giggles and wiggles its feet when you shake its rattle, but will get cranky and cry from too much tickling: Meet Yotaro, a Japanese robot programmed to be as fickle as a real baby. The cuddly... |
| Coms Flies To Kourou With a take-off weight of 2.5 metric tons and an end-of-life on-board power level of 2.5 kW, the satellite will remain in service in a geostationary orbit for at least eight years. COMS re-uses some... |
| Spacex Static Fire Update SpaceX has performed our first Static Fire for the Falcon 9 launch vehicle. We counted down to an T-2 seconds and aborted on Spin Start. Given that this was our first abort event on this pad, we... |
| Atom Smasher Set For High Speed Bash By Early April: Cern The world's most powerful atom smasher will be brought up to unprecedented power by early April, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research said on Wednesday. "We hope to have collisions at 7.0... |
| Arabsat 5a Satellite Shipped To Launch Site The first Arabsat 5th generation satellite today left the Astrium facilties in Toulouse and was loaded in Blagnac airport on an Antonov cargo airplane that will transport it to French Guyana in view... |
| Catastrophic Event Halted Star Birth In Early Galaxy Scientists have found evidence of a catastrophic event they believe was responsible for halting the birth of stars in a galaxy in the early Universe. They report their results in the journal Monthly... |
| Mysterious Cosmic Dark Flow Tracked Deeper Into Universe Distant galaxy clusters mysteriously stream at a million miles per hour along a path roughly centered on the southern constellations Centaurus and Hydra. A new study led by Alexander Kashlinsky at... |
| China Plans To Launch Third Unmanned Moon Probe Around 2013 China plans to launch its third unmanned probe to the moon, Chang'e-3, around 2013 and expects to complete the three-phase moon mission in 2017, an official said here Wednesday. The remarks by Ye... |
| Us Military To Step Up Video-game Training The US military plans to step up the use of video-games, hoping to curb casualties on the battlefield by training troops through simulations, a commander said Wednesday. The Pentagon this week... |
| Galaxy Study Validates General Relativity On Cosmic Scale The result conflicts with a report late last year that the very early universe, between 8 and 11 billion years ago, did deviate from the general relativistic description of... |
| Ge - Satcom: New Name, New Look For Satlynx Satlynx is soon to become GE - Satcom. Along with the name change, the company will have a dynamic new corporate identity and website to match. "The evolution of our brand is a natural progression"... |
| Mysterious Cosmic 'dark Flow' Tracked Distant galaxy clusters mysteriously stream at a million miles per hour along a path roughly centered on the southern constellations Centaurus and Hydra. A new study led by Alexander... |
| China's First Two Women Astronauts Selected China has selected its second batch of astronauts, including five men and two women, the first time women astronauts have joined the country's space mission.The two women astronauts, both pilots from... |
| Just One Hitch In Choosing China's First Women Astronauts Chinese astronaut Zhai Zhigang waves from outside his Shenzhou 7 spacecraft September 27, 2008. He became his country's first spacewalker. Credit:... |
| Scots Unearth Clues Of Earliest Life On Earth SCOTTISH scientists have uncovered startling new evidence that the earliest forms of life on Earth could have survived a massive meteor bombardment four billion years... |
| Galaxy Resources Limited Increases Ore Reserves At Mt Cattling Spodumene Project By 11.4 Million Tonnes, Up 23% (MENAFN) A statement released by Egypt's Torah Cement said that the company posted a 23 percent rise in 2009 net profit to $62 million, compared with The firm made a net profit of... |
| Students' Perceptions Of Earth's Age Influence Acceptance Of Human Evolution High school and college students who understand the geological age of the Earth (4.5 billion years) are much more likely to understand and accept human evolution, according to a University of... |
| Smith 'over The Moon' Boom all-rounder Steve Smith admits he is 'over the moon' following his inclusion in Australia's 14-man squad for the upcoming two-Test series against New Zealand.Smith, already a member of the... |
| Smith 'over the moon' Boom all-rounder Steve Smith admits he is 'over the moon' following his inclusion in Australia's 14-man squad for the upcoming two-Test series against New Zealand.Smith, already a member of the... |
| Obama facing uprising over new NASA strategy WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama is trying to tamp down an uprising in politically vital Florida against a new strategy for NASA that has rankled space veterans and lawmakers and... |
| Noguchi installs robotic arm on space station TSUKUBA — Japanese astronaut Soichi Noguchi on Wednesday installed a robotic arm outside the country’s Kibo laboratory module on the International Space Station, the Japan Aerospace... |
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| Physicists Take Atoms For A Walk Posted on: Wednesday, 10 March 2010, 12:19 CST A team of physicists headed by Christian Roos and Rainer Blatt from the Institute of Quantum Optics and Quantum Information of the Austrian Academy... |
| Save power save earth It is a simple step that can go a long way as your contribution to fighting climate change. All you have to do is just switch off your lights and electronic equipment from 8.30 pm to 9.30 pm on... |
| Switch off lights during Earth Hour Abhishek Bachchan Actor Abhishek Bachchan has urged Indians to switch off lights for one hour on March 27 as part of WWF's Earth Hour 2010 campaign to support action on climate change. He says he will also request the... |
| General Relativity Validated on Cosmic Scale An analysis of more than 70,000 galaxies by University of California, Berkeley, University of Zurich and Princeton University physicists demonstrates that the universe -- at least up to a... |
| Einstein Was Right: General Relativity Confirmed A partial map of the distribution of galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, going out to a distance of 7 billion light years. The amount of galaxy clustering that we observe today is a signature... |
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| Roger Penrose: Non-stop cosmos, non-stop career YOU'D have thought that Roger Penrose would be pleased to have his work immortalised in an Oscar-nominated film. Apparently not. After friends told him about his book's cameo in Happy Go Lucky,... |
| China chooses first women astronauts China has selected its first two women astronauts to serve on a team that will undertake future missions launched by the nation's burgeoning space programme, state media reported Wednesday. The... |
| The Minnesotan who helped bring "Avatar" to earth Growing up in St. Louis Park in the 1960s, Stephen Rivkin wasn't sure where he fit in. At 12, he followed his older brother David's lead and rocked out on electric guitar, with little brother Bobby... |
| China space program selects first women astronauts The Chinese space program's first two women astronauts have been selected and may take part in missions to China's planned space station, the official Xinhua News Agency reported... |
| SpaceX Aborts Test Firing of New Rocket's Engines ) aborted the Falcon 9 medium-class rocket's first static fire test March 9 just as the vehicle's nine main-stage engines were about to ignite for a planned 3.5-second burn. ... |
| SpaceX Aborts Test Firing of Falcon 9 Engines The Falcon 9 Rocket and Dragon Spacecraft: See the craft in detail, plus how it stacks up to a Russian Soyuz rocket and NASA's space shuttles. Credit: Karl Tate,... |
| Japanese astronaut Noguchi engages in key work on Int'l Space Station+ TSUKUBA, Japan, March 11 (AP) - (Kyodo)Japanese astronaut Soichi Noguchi on Wednesday installed a robotic arm outside the country's Kibo laboratory module on the International Space Station,... |
| First woman in space promotes careers in science , a company dedicated to helping teachers raise students' interest in science. Ride, 58, spoke to Reuters after appearing at a round-table discussion in Boston on gender equity and educating... |
| ISS Expedition 22 to return to Earth on March 18 Panoramic dome view observation station added to ISS A Soyuz-TMA-16 space capsule carrying two astronauts from the International Space Station (ISS) is scheduled to land in central Kazakhstan on... |
| Quantum Walk: Physicists Take Atoms for a Walk A team of physicists, headed by Christian Roos and Rainer Blatt from the Institute of Quantum Optics and Quantum Information of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, has a achieved a quantum walk... |
| Lord of the Rings in Opposition Being in opposition has several effects. Mainly, it means that Saturn rises at sunset and sets at sunrise, so is visible all night long everywhere in the world. At sunset Saturn is rising in the... |
