Photo: X-rays can reveal broken bones and build up more detailed pictures of outer space. From The Daily Mail: The X-ray has been voted the most important modern discovery by the British public, in a Science Museum poll. The antibiotic agent penicillin came second followed by the DNA double helix. Nearly 50,000 visitors voted for the greatest achievements in science, engineering and technology from...
Powered by Powdered Aluminum: This test rocket soared 1300 feet into the air using seven inches of a new, environmentally friendly fuel made of nanoaluminum and ice. Purdue University/Steven Son From Discovery News: Aluminum and water is usually a boring combination, but light a mixture of nanoaluminum and ice and the results are explosive. Scientists from Purdue University have created a new, environmentally...
I’ve played a few games that debuted at Spiel in late October 2009 at least twice, so I thought I’d offer early impressions, with more detailed reviews to follow once I’ve played them a sufficient number of times. Here goes: • Tobago – Bruce Allen has created a fun deduction-style game that contains no deduction. On an island with different types of terrain and landmarks,...
When we think of Autumn in the garden we think foliage, we think evergreen and we think berries. This plant has all of this and much, much more. Often overlooked the Cotoneaster is somewhat of a garden stalwar t. It provides everything you want in an evergreen shrub. It has form, provides structure, year round interest and it is also very versatile. The species pictured here in my garden, which I believe...
Quintiles officially opened its expanded regional headquarters facility in Singapore’s Science Park I. The new facility doubles the size of the company’s previous space in Singapore and provides additional room for future expansion. Quintiles is leasing a total of 79,000 sq.-ft. of space in the new Cintech IV building, which is capable of accommodating approximately 550 employees when...
What happens if you put a cat into a zero gravity environment? The cat torturers at NASA found out and took this clip: Related posts:Google Getting Closer To SpaceSpace Shuttle Endeavor Undocks, Heads HomeWeather Causes Delay In Space Shuttle Discovery Launch
Currently sitting in the departure lounge in LAX before I fly out to Washington D.C. to meet up with the Discovery News crew ahead of the launch of our brand new site (keep an eye on Discovery Space, it will soon be integrated into the Discovery News redesign — the beta version looks awesome). Before [...] Post from: Astroengine.com A Bevvy of Doom
z Did Rudd’s free cash kill a green car? | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog Did Kevin Rudd’s free cash handout to Toyota for one “green” car just undercut plans by Hyundai for another? Big Government » Christopher C. Horner » Lindsey Graham: For Cap and Trade, Except When He’s Not In the process of trying to sell our energy future for a bag of magic beans, Sen....
Every week in this space, we’ll take a look at the news and offer our own incisive blend of commentary, analysis, and poop jokes. The news you need, from a voice you can trust, in the 90 seconds you have to spare: that’s Woot Weads the Wire. ADDIS ABABA , Ethiopia ( UPI )— A 35 -mile-long rift in the desert of Ethiopia could rip open, creating a new sea in just days, scientists say....
The BBC have revealed some details about the episodes. " Episode 1: Dry Springs, Nevada, 1958. The Doctor befriends a young waitress, Cassie, and her friend, Jimmy, at a diner. The Doctor activates an alien artefact and, after finding further signs of alien activity, the US Army intervenes and takes him and his new companions to the mysterious Area 51 in Roswell, where they find out about Operation...
The BBC have released details about Dreamland . Described as Doctor Who meets a Fifties monster B-movie , Dreamland , a new six-part animated adventure, premières daily on BBC Red Button and the Doctor Who website from Saturday 21 November . Written by Phil Ford , Dreamland , sees the iconic Tardis touch down in the desert in the USA. Stumbling across a mysterious alien artefact in a local diner,...
My team and I have been sifting through all the Business Rates data following our discovery that Putney's Conservative MP misled people about the changes in her Roehampton newsletter. The reality is even more disturbing - suggesting that she's presenting the wrong figures across the entire constituency. Excluding phone masts, advertising hoardings and car parking spaces* which are liable for business...
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Noise in a few of the CCDs on NASA's Kepler space telescope could overwhelm the signal of an Earth-like planet, but mission scientists are developing a fix
This image is a composite of multi-wavelength images of the active galaxy M82 from the three Great Observatories: Hubble Space Telescope, Chandra X-Ray Observatory, and Spitzer Space Telescope. X-ray data recorded by Chandra (courtesy of NASA/CXC/JHU/D.Strickland) appears here in blue; infrared light recorded by Spitzer (courtesy of NASA/JPL-Caltech/C. Engelbracht (University of Arizona)) appears in...
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