Archive for the ‘Space’ Category
Tuesday, October 25th, 2011
BBC reports that the world's oldest scientific academy, the Royal Society, has made its historical journal, which includes over 8000 scientific papers, permanently free to access online.
You can reach all the old journal articles from this page at the Royal Society by selecting a journal and going to past issues."
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Thursday, April 29th, 2010
Water ice has been found on the surface of a nearby asteroid for the first time – a discovery that could help explain how Earth got its oceans, scientists announced.
Two teams of researchers independently verified that the asteroid 24 Themis – a large rock hurtling through space in the asteroid ...
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Tuesday, March 30th, 2010
Physicists at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) broke a record with their atom smasher Large Hadron Collider when they managed to collide protons at 3 times the energy previously achieved.
Earlier in the day, scientists stepped up efforts to detect the elusive 'God Particle' by triggering collision of two proton ...
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Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010
The earthquake that took more than 700 lives in Chile on 27th Feb 2010 probably have changed the entire Earth's rotation and shortened the length of days on our planet, a National Aeronautics and Space Administration scientist said.
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Tuesday, August 25th, 2009
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The telescope was the first instrument to extend human senses, revolutionising our view of the heavens and our place in the world.
Exactly 400 years ago on 25 August 1609, the Italian astronomer, mathematician, physicist and philosopher Galilei Galileo showed ...
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Thursday, January 1st, 2009
A number of technologies have exploded throughout 2008, improving and influencing our daily life. Here is a quick look at some of the technology events that happened during 2008.
Big Bang Experiment: The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the world's largest and highest-energy particle accelerator, intended to collide opposing beams of ...
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