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Einstein and Gravity Probe B proves space-time warps
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2007-04-15 18:54:22
Just over 90 years ago, Albert Einstein predicted through his General Theory of Relativity that all objects with mass distort space and time. NASA’s Gravity Probe B proved that he was correct.
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2007-04-15 18:54:22
Just over 90 years ago, Albert Einstein predicted through his General Theory of Relativity that all objects with mass distort space and time. NASA’s Gravity Probe B proved that he was correct.
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Researchers study 'space tsunamis'
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Science
Category: Space
2007-04-12 22:27:05
Observations from the ESA's Cluster satellites favour one of two competing theories about 'space tsunamis' - the substorms that disrupt the northern lights and interfere with GPS reception.
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Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Science
Category: Space
2007-04-12 22:27:05
Observations from the ESA's Cluster satellites favour one of two competing theories about 'space tsunamis' - the substorms that disrupt the northern lights and interfere with GPS reception.
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Clouds on the Edge of Space to be studied by NASA’s AIM satellite
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2007-04-12 20:56:51
The Aeronomy of Ice in the Mesosphere (AIM) is a satellite scheduled to be launched on April 25, 2007, for a 26-month study of noctilucent clouds (NLCs) to find out why they formed and why they are changing.
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2007-04-12 20:56:51
The Aeronomy of Ice in the Mesosphere (AIM) is a satellite scheduled to be launched on April 25, 2007, for a 26-month study of noctilucent clouds (NLCs) to find out why they formed and why they are changing.
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UK boffins are going on an alien hunt
Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: World Watch
Category: The Register
2007-04-09 06:21:01
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Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: World Watch
Category: The Register
2007-04-09 06:21:01
Physicists have been hearing this afternoon about attempts by UK astronomers to find evidence of alien life - buried in over 2000 hours of archived telescope data.
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Magnet supports give way at LHC
Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: World Watch
Category: The Register
2007-04-04 05:41:18
A routine test of the almost-complete Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN ended in near disaster last week when the structure supporting the particle accelerator's key magnets failed.
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Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: World Watch
Category: The Register
2007-04-04 05:41:18
A routine test of the almost-complete Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN ended in near disaster last week when the structure supporting the particle accelerator's key magnets failed.
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MOND experiment cancels all accelerations, could it end dark matter?
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2007-04-03 09:24:57
The theory of Modified Newtonian Dynamics (MOND), if successfully tested, could help end the question about whether dark matter exists or not. Will it work?
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2007-04-03 09:24:57
The theory of Modified Newtonian Dynamics (MOND), if successfully tested, could help end the question about whether dark matter exists or not. Will it work?
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The Pioneer Anomaly: The NASA Whodunit
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2007-03-28 21:25:19
Pioneer 10 and Pioneer 11 spacecraft, along with other very distant probes, are being held back just a tiny bit on their journey into the far reaches of the solar system. Astronomers do not know what “odd” force, if any, is causing this to happen!
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2007-03-28 21:25:19
Pioneer 10 and Pioneer 11 spacecraft, along with other very distant probes, are being held back just a tiny bit on their journey into the far reaches of the solar system. Astronomers do not know what “odd” force, if any, is causing this to happen!
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International team solves E8: 248-dimensional math puzzle
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2007-03-20 08:20:23
E8 is a complex structure with 248 dimensions. It took 4 years of prep work by 18 mathematicians and computer scientists and 3 full days of computer time to solve a matrix with over 205 billion parts that contained 60 times more data than the Human Genome Project.
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2007-03-20 08:20:23
E8 is a complex structure with 248 dimensions. It took 4 years of prep work by 18 mathematicians and computer scientists and 3 full days of computer time to solve a matrix with over 205 billion parts that contained 60 times more data than the Human Genome Project.
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Can your refrigerator turn water to ice in one-billionth of a second? U.S. scientists can!
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Energy
2007-03-19 15:37:43
Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, New Mexico have developed a way to turn water into ice in nanoseconds, where one nanosecond is equal to one-billionth of a second.
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Energy
2007-03-19 15:37:43
Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, New Mexico have developed a way to turn water into ice in nanoseconds, where one nanosecond is equal to one-billionth of a second.
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First probe beneath Mars surface finds water ice
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2007-03-18 09:43:58
Using a ground-penetrating instrument for the first time, Mars Express scientists conclude nearly pure water ice, laced with dust particles, exist almost 4 kilometers under the frozen surface of Mars' South Pole.
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2007-03-18 09:43:58
Using a ground-penetrating instrument for the first time, Mars Express scientists conclude nearly pure water ice, laced with dust particles, exist almost 4 kilometers under the frozen surface of Mars' South Pole.
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Ignoble Nobel medal theft sees prize recovered
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Science
Category: Energy
2007-03-08 07:53:58
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Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Science
Category: Energy
2007-03-08 07:53:58
A Nobel Prize awarded for the invention of the cyclotron has been recovered at last following its theft by a foolhardy student at the Berekely University of California.
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NASA Phoenix lander readies itself for new life on Mars
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2007-03-03 14:58:39
The Phoenix Mars Mission, scheduled to launch in August 2007, will end up on the northern pole of Mars in May 2008. As with the mythical Egyptian bird of the same name, the Phoenix had to regenerate itself after confronting previous mission cancellations, cost overruns, and unexpected rough terrain at its landing site. Scientists are hopeful that Phoenix will discover the history of water-ice on Mars.
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2007-03-03 14:58:39
The Phoenix Mars Mission, scheduled to launch in August 2007, will end up on the northern pole of Mars in May 2008. As with the mythical Egyptian bird of the same name, the Phoenix had to regenerate itself after confronting previous mission cancellations, cost overruns, and unexpected rough terrain at its landing site. Scientists are hopeful that Phoenix will discover the history of water-ice on Mars.
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Cassini shows photographer’s eye with fantastic Saturn images
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2007-03-02 14:22:15
NASA's Cassini spacecraft has taken images of Saturn—complete with photographs of the planet’s remarkable ring system—that astronomers say have never been seen by humans before.
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2007-03-02 14:22:15
NASA's Cassini spacecraft has taken images of Saturn—complete with photographs of the planet’s remarkable ring system—that astronomers say have never been seen by humans before.
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World's thinnest material yields semiconductor breakthrough
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Hardware
2007-03-01 15:11:59
The successful creation of transistors made from graphene - a form of carbon that is just one atom thick - may provide the microelectronics industry with a continuing path for miniaturisation when silicon technology reaches its lower limit.
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Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Hardware
2007-03-01 15:11:59
The successful creation of transistors made from graphene - a form of carbon that is just one atom thick - may provide the microelectronics industry with a continuing path for miniaturisation when silicon technology reaches its lower limit.
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By the glow of the coppery Moon: check out lunar eclipse March 3rd
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2007-03-01 14:11:54
A total lunar eclipse will occur on March 3, 2007, over the eastern parts of the Americas, Europe, Africa, and western Asia.
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2007-03-01 14:11:54
A total lunar eclipse will occur on March 3, 2007, over the eastern parts of the Americas, Europe, Africa, and western Asia.
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Future of NASA through eyes of administrator Griffin
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2007-02-28 10:11:40
On February 7, 2007, NASA administrator Michael D. Griffin spoke to members of the National Space Club on the past, present, and future of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the United States space program.
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2007-02-28 10:11:40
On February 7, 2007, NASA administrator Michael D. Griffin spoke to members of the National Space Club on the past, present, and future of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the United States space program.
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South Pole Telescope collects First Light in quest of dark energy
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2007-02-27 11:21:39
Researchers working with the new South Pole Telescope have announced that the telescope has successfully observed its First Light in its quest to find a mystery that has baffled cosmologists for years: Does dark energy exist and, if so, in what form does it exist?
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2007-02-27 11:21:39
Researchers working with the new South Pole Telescope have announced that the telescope has successfully observed its First Light in its quest to find a mystery that has baffled cosmologists for years: Does dark energy exist and, if so, in what form does it exist?
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Supercomputer speeds understanding of new chip material
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Hardware
2007-02-26 23:42:06
Computer simulations developed by IBM's Zurich Research Laboratory have cast light on the proposed use of hafnium dioxide in computer chips - a development that is expected to help increase chip density and performance.
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Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Hardware
2007-02-26 23:42:06
Computer simulations developed by IBM's Zurich Research Laboratory have cast light on the proposed use of hafnium dioxide in computer chips - a development that is expected to help increase chip density and performance.
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391 years ago this week Galileo at center of Church controversy
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2007-02-25 11:39:06
On Thursday, February 25, 1616, the Catholic Church passes a censure against Galileo who had earlier stated that the Sun is the center of the universe and that the Earth moves around it—directly against the Church’s belief that the Earth, instead, was at the center of the universe and the Sun revolved around it.
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2007-02-25 11:39:06
On Thursday, February 25, 1616, the Catholic Church passes a censure against Galileo who had earlier stated that the Sun is the center of the universe and that the Earth moves around it—directly against the Church’s belief that the Earth, instead, was at the center of the universe and the Sun revolved around it.
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Helix nebula may hint of our fate in billions of years
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2007-02-23 09:53:28
The NASA Spitzer Space Telescope has observed a glowing dust ring around a hot white dwarf star in the center of the Helix nebula. Astronomers think that this picture could be the fate of our solar system in about five billion years when the Sun depletes its storehouse of hydrogen fuel and engulfs the Earth.
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2007-02-23 09:53:28
The NASA Spitzer Space Telescope has observed a glowing dust ring around a hot white dwarf star in the center of the Helix nebula. Astronomers think that this picture could be the fate of our solar system in about five billion years when the Sun depletes its storehouse of hydrogen fuel and engulfs the Earth.
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