By admin on Sunday, February 24, 2008
"Deep in the basement of a dusty old library in Edinburgh lies a small black box that churns out random numbers. At first glance the box looks profoundly dull, but it is, in fact, the ‘eye' of a machine that appears capable of peering into the future.
The machine apparently sensed the September 11th attacks on the World Trade Centre four hours ...
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By admin on Monday, February 11, 2008
"Feb. 6, 2008 -- Astrophysicists in Germany say they can add evidence to bolster theories that water, one of the precious ingredients for life, exists on the Saturnian moon Enceladus.
A tiny satellite measuring just 504 kilometers (315 miles) across, Enceladus has become one of the most fiercely debated objects in the solar system, thanks to close-up pi ...
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By admin on Monday, February 11, 2008
"On the night of Feb. 20, the full moon will pass into Earth's shadow in an event that will be visible across all of the United States and Canada.
The total lunar eclipse will be made even more striking by the presence of the nearby planet Saturn and the bright bluish star, Regulus.
Eclipses in the distant past often terrified ...
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By admin on Monday, February 11, 2008
"The stream of stories about the Large Hadron Collider's operation is getting genuinely weird. Nineteen-sixties, little-green-monster, B-movie sci-fi weird. Not, mind you, that that's an entirely bad thing.
Latest is a group of stories that spin off from a paper published in October by pair of Russian physicists, who – in a display of serious, ...
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By admin on Monday, February 11, 2008
"Anthropogenic forcing could push the Earth’s climate system past critical thresholds, so that important components may “tip” into qualitatively different modes of operation. In the renowned magazine “Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences” (PNAS) an international team of researchers describes, where small changes can hav ...
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By admin on Sunday, February 03, 2008
"A Purdue University archaeologist discovered an intact ancient iron ore mine in South America that shows how civilizations before the Inca Empire were mining this valuable ore." "The researchers determined that the mine is a human-made cave that was first created around 2,000 years ago. An estimated 3,710 metric tons was extracted from the m ...
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By admin on Sunday, February 03, 2008
Excavations at the mountain top birthplace of the Greek god Zeus reveal the mountaintop's conical ash altar was used for sacrifices long before the Greeks began to worship their most powerful god. What the altar was used for the thousand years before Zeus sacrifices began is the mystery archaeologists are trying to solve. They are hoping e ...
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By admin on Thursday, January 31, 2008
"A whole new side of Mercury has been revealed in pictures taken by NASA's MESSENGER probe, which flew by the tiny planet two weeks ago in the first mission to Mercury in more than three decades.
MESSENGER skimmed only 124 miles (200 kilometers) over Mercury's surface on Jan. 14, in the first of three passes it will make before settling into orbit March ...
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