Two-Site Solution: South Africa and Australia/New Zealand Awarded New Telescope

Source: Science

Splitting the difference. SKA dishes, shown here in an artist's conception at night, will go to both Australia and South Africa. The world's largest radiotelescope, the Square Kilometer Array (SKA), will be built in two places at once, planners ...
Full article at: Science  More like this  1 day ago, 11:34am CDT

Advertisement

A pinwheel in many colors

Source: PhysOrg.com

This image of the Pinwheel Galaxy, or also known as M101, combines data in the infrared, visible, ultraviolet and X-rays from four of NASA's space-based telescopes. This multi-spectral view shows that both young and old stars are ev ...
Full article at: PhysOrg.com  More like this  2 days ago, 7:34am CDT

SKA Telescope – What is it? What Implications?

Source: News24

Australia or South Africa? The SKA (Square Kilometer Array) telescope decision is due today (perhaps announced before this essay publishes). To me, though, where the infrastructure is built is much less important than what will flow from the proj ...
Full article at: News24  More like this  2 days ago, 7:30am CDT

Latest stories

Eurovision Song Contest 2012 streamed Live Online
If you are bored tonight you can watch the Eurovision Song Contest 2012 online now.

 

Chevrolet Recalls 2013 Malibu Eco for Airbag Deployment Issue
Airbags could go off unexpectedly in some models

 

Fox, CBS, and NBC Sue Dish Network for Cutting Commercials
AutoHop under fire

 

X-ray radioactivity

Source: The Hindu

Do food items kept inside bags become radioactive when exposed to X-rays? X-rays form a part of the electromagnetic spectrum which consist of gamma-rays, ultraviolet rays, visible light, infrared, microwaves and radio-waves. They differ in their energy ...
Full article at: The Hindu  More like this  3 days ago, 3:36pm CDT

Return of the Vacuum Tube

Source: Science

Peer inside an antique radio and you'll find what look like small light bulbs. They're actually vacuum tubes—the predecessors of the silicon transistor. Vacuum tubes went the way of the dinosaurs in the 1960s, but researchers ...
Full article at: Science  More like this  3 days ago, 1:06pm CDT

Fire Chars Forest Near Guadalajara

Source: NASA

In April 2012, a fire in Mexico left a swath of charred land across the Bosque de la Primavera, a forested park just west of the country’s second largest city, Guadalajara. The fire damaged more than 8,500 hectares (33 square miles), abou ...
Full article at: NASA  More like this  4 days ago, 5:41pm CDT

Emerging Wireless Medical Technology Gets FCC Blessing

Source: TechWeb

In a bid to maximize the potential of Medical Body Area Network (MBAN) devices--miniaturized body-worn sensors that collect patient-specific information including EKG readings and respiratory function--the FCC plans to allow more intensive use of th ...
Full article at: TechWeb  More like this  4 days ago, 4:28pm CDT

SPI Corp And NASA Produce Multispectral Images of 2012 Partial Annular Eclipse With Thermal Imager and Infrared Cameras

Source: Beaumont Enterprise

NASA turns space borne instruments toward the sun for 2012 annular eclipse. SPI Corp compliments with thermal infrared imaging of the event. SPI Corp is a leading manufacturer and distributor of thermal infrared imaging systems in the ...
Full article at: Beaumont Enterprise  More like this  4 days ago, 10:37am CDT

Integrated Pest Management of Manifestations as Infestations

Source: Neatorama

The considerable body of literature about angels is cluttered, to say the least, with confused speculation that goes much beyond the facts. A simple scientific analysis of angels — one based on observation — ...
Full article at: Neatorama  More like this  5 days ago, 7:07am CDT