After Comet 17P/Holmes shocked astronomers on Oct. 24, 2007, with a spectacular eruption, a second naked-eye comet, 8P/Tuttle may become visible on January 2nd just after the 2008 New Year celebrations. Given that the naked-eye comets are unusual enough, I’d encourage everyone to go out and look. The comet has an orbital period of 13.6 [...]
New technique to slow down, stop and capture light offers bright future for the internet and powerful computers
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15 November 2007
Professor Ortwin Hess, his PhD student Kosmas Tsakmakidis of the Advanced Technology Institute and Department of Physics at the University of Surrey and Professor Alan Boardman from Salford University have revealed a technique which may [...]
Nanosolar Inc. is a company that has the potential to change the world.
Nanosolar has developed a proprietary ink that makes it possible to simply print the semiconductor of a high-performance solar cell. Read more about this technology.
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Why Time Seems to Speed Up and How to Slow it Down
© By Steve Taylor
I’m six years old, in the car with my parents and brother, travelling back from our annual two week holiday in Conwy, North Wales. It’s dark and the journey seems to take forever. I lie in the back seat, watching the [...]
by ZDNet’s Chris Matyszczyk — Guest post: Chris Matyszczyk finds that the Web accommodates all kinds of bloggers, including a nun who says she is “wildly enthusiastic about our mission of putting communications technology at the service of the Gospel.” One of the more rewarding things about the Web is that it allows you to [...]
“Space Shuttle Columbia during STS-80 took a crew of five astronauts into a 17 day, 15 hour and 54 minute mission around the earth, the longest flight in the history of this vehicle. During this lengthy flight a very strange event occurred that even had crewman Dr. Story Musgrave unable to explain what he observed [...]
Something strange is happening in the atmosphere above Africa and researchers have converged on Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, to discuss the phenomenon. The Africa Space Weather Workshop kicked off Nov. 12th with nearly 100 scientists and students in attendance.
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Source: PHYSORG.COM
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Silicon electronics are a staple of the computing industry, but researchers are now exploring other techniques to deliver powerful computers.
A quantum computer is a theoretical device that would make use of the properties of quantum mechanics, the realm of physics that deals with energy and matter at atomic scales.
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Source: BBC News
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“A group of former pilots and government officials has called on the US government to re-open an investigation into claims of UFO sightings.
Project Blue Book, run by the US Air Force, was stopped in the late 1960s. ” Read more
Source: BBC NEWS
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“Airline pilots, aviation experts, military and government officials are people we frequently trust with our lives, so we’d prefer not to think of them as kooks.
Yet, on Wednesday a group of people carrying those weighty credentials admitted to the world they had each either witnessed a UFO incident or investigated a UFO case that [...]
The Japanese lunar explorer “KAGUYA” (SELENE) has sent back the first high-definition photos ever taken of the Moon. Visit the website of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) to find spectacular images. The image shooting was carried out by the onboard high definition television (HDTV) of the KAGUYA.
World’s First Image Taking of the Moon by [...]
An Australian researcher is on the road to riches after discovering a way to make broadband connections up to 100 times faster.
University of Melbourne research fellow Dr John Papandriopoulos is in the throes of moving to Silicon Valley after developing an algorithm to reduce the electromagnetic interference that slows down ADSL connections.
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Source: theage.com.au
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