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Fred Hoyle: the scientist whose rudeness cost him a Nobel prize
As the winners of this year's Nobel science prizes are about to be announced, Robin McKie looks back at the controversial life of groundbreaking scientist Fred HoyleOn 19 October 1983, US physicist Willy...
Artificial Event Horizon Emits Laboratory Analogue to Theoretical Black Hole Radiation
Stephen Hawking is famous for many things: provocative best-selling books, Simpsons guest stints and his long and productive life with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis among them. In the field...
Legislation Setting NASA's New Direction Finally Clears Congress
President Obama's plan for NASA--or at least a modified version of it--cleared a major hurdle late on Sept. 29, when the House of Representatives agreed to the Senate's version of...
Calif. in aggressive push for solar power
SACRAMENTO, Sept. 29 (UPI) -- Solar projects on track for approval by California will double the state's ability to generate electricity from solar power, state officials say. ...
Goddard team obtains the 'unobtainium' for NASA's next space observatory
Imagine building a car chassis without a blueprint or even a list of recommended construction materials...
Pan-STARRS discovers its first potentially hazardous asteroid
The Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System (Pan-STARRS) PS1 telescope has discovered an asteroid that will come within 4 million miles of Earth in mid-October. The object is about...
A Guided Tour of Modern Medicine’s Underbelly
In Dr. Carl Elliott’s survey of all that is shifty in modern medicine, humdrum events are exactly what make up medicine’s dark side.
Mars Moon Phobos Likely Forged by Catastrophic Blast
One of Mars' moons probably coalesced from rubble thrown into space after a comet or meteorite slammed into the Red Planet, a new study has found.
Landing site for Rosetta going South
Scientists have determined that ESA's Rosetta mission needs to deliver its lander to a site in the southern hemisphere of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. A site in this region will be the...
Gigantic mirror for X-radiation in outer space
It is to become the largest X-ray telescope ever: The International X-Ray Observatory (IXO), which has been planned in a cooperation between NASA, ESA and Japan's Aerospace Exploration Agency JAXA,...
UN plan for 'alien ambassador' a case of science fiction?
Malaysian astrophysicist Mazlan Othman denies Sunday Times report that she is to become Earth's first contact for ETsIf a Martian, proverbial or otherwise, had landed on earth in the last 24-hours the media...
Big renewables pledge for Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland's new energy strategy sets a target of 40% of electricity to come from alternative energy sources by 2020.
Virgin to launch space tourism in 18 months: Branson
Billionaire entrepreneur Richard Branson said Monday that Virgin Galactic is on track to offer commercial space travel within 18 months, and that space hotels are next on the drawing board.
Starwatch: The October night sky
Our October nights bring a rich procession of stellar interest that ranges from the Summer Triangle, high on the meridian at nightfall, to Orion and his blazing retinue of winter companions in...
NASA's CloudSat satellite sees a powerful heat engine in Typhoon Malakas
Towering thunderstorms and heavy rainfall are two things that NASA's CloudSat satellite saw as it passed over Typhoon Malakas, and those two factors confirm a strong storm. NASA's CloudSat satellite's...
How do you make the perfect sled dog?
Over the last few hundred years, Alaskan sled dogs have been bred to haul cargo over Arctic terrain and, more recently, for racing. Now, researchers have identified the contributions different...
Video - John Young: Why We Must Fly in Space
Shuttle-Apollo-Gemini astronaut John Young on why humanity must continue exploring space.
Brilliant Fireball Over New Mexico Caught in Video
A brilliant fireball lit up the night sky above parts of New Mexico and Texas this week in a fiery display recorded by a skywatching camera.
Ultraprecise clock helps cut relativity down to size
Scientists show that Einstein's famous theory works at a down-to-Earth scale.Among the oft-repeated predictions of Albert Einstein's famous theory of relativity is that if a twin travels through the cosmos...
Gemini-Titan Rocket Rises Again at Kennedy Space Center
A Gemini-Titan rocket was installed on Wednesday inside the Rocket Garden at NASA's Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida.
Boulder-sized emerald in L.A. court battle
The curious case of an enormous emerald weighing about as much as a horse is being heard in a Los Angeles courtroom where a judge will try to determine precisely...
Meteorologist Aims to Predict Any Way the Wind Blows
A meteorologist aims to better predict the weather to make travel safer and boost wind energy.
Destroyer of worlds
(PhysOrg.com) -- Astronomers, in addition to discovering extrasolar planets (about 500 of them currently have known orbital parameters), have detected excess, warm infrared dust emission around many stars.
Female polar explorers revisit tragic race to South Pole
NEW YORK — A century has passed since the race to be the first to reach the South Pole pitted Englishman Robert Falcon Scott against Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen. Only...
Imagination Station to offer NASA's New Views of the Universe exhibition
NASA`s traveling museum exhibition, New Views of the Universe, featuring the Hubble and James Webb Space Telescopes, opens at Imagination Station museum in Toledo this Friday, Sept. 24.
Giant new turbines arrive on site
Parts for four giant wind turbines arrive in Cornwall ready for installation over the coming weeks.
Snapshot: Shimmering Nebula Caught in Scorpion's Claw
Gripped in the claw of the constellation Scorpius (the Scorpion), the reflective nebula DG 129 twinkles in a new image taken by NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer.
Springtime for Northern Titan: Seven Years of Clearer Skies
The clouds are clearing as spring takes hold in Titan's northern hemisphere, signaling a shift in the weather patterns of the intriguing Saturn moon.