Yesterday, the MESSENGER spacecraft performed its second Mercury pass-by, and began transmitting data back to Earth. The images showed that our solar system's first member is packed with relatively young, bright craters and a wide rays pattern, associating the planet' s weather phenomenons with similar ones... |
8 October 2008
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As Ray, you wake up alone in a deep and fog covered forest. Your friends are nowhere to be found. It was supposed to be a cozy night camping in the woods…until strange creatures rose from the darkness… You must find your friends, survive the horrific forest and get off the island in one piece. Survive the dark island... |
29 October 2007
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What speeds cosmic rays close to the velocity of light? Huge magnetic cocoons linked to galaxies whose black holes are inactive could solve the puzzle: the way the energy rich cosmic rays reach Earth, when normally they should have long finished their resources.Cosmic rays represent high-speed atomic nuclei, mainly h... |
23 October 2007
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The Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope, or GLAST is the next telescope built by NASA, designed to explore astrophysical and cosmological phenomena such as active galactic nuclei, pulsars, other high-energy sources, and dark matter.It will be launched on December 14, 2007, but until then, it's been subjected t... |
26 June 2007
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These efficient killers have not changed since the dinosaur era. They present sophisticated sensory organs yet scientists believed sharks and their relatives, rays (which are nothing more than flattened sharks) are color-blind. Now a team at University of Queensland has revealed that stingrays could be able to see i... |
11 April 2007
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What's the link between the fin soup and paella?Well, less big sharks in the oceans means no scallops and other sea food. A new Canadian-American team, led by world-renowned fisheries biologist Ransom Myers at Dalhousie University, has discovered that overfishing the largest predatory sharks, like the bull, grea... |
30 March 2007
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Since their discovery, the X rays keep on surprising the scientists with new applications, both related to current life and to the astronomical research. These are the most powerful radiations, able to penetrate the matter and reveal us its intimacy.It started in 1895, when Wilhelm Roentgen was studying the recently ... |
12 March 2007
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A five years survey on local fish market in Indonesia led to the discovery of at least 20 previously unknown species of sharks and rays by an Australian team. Indonesia is the world's most extensive archipelago, with more than 17,000 islands, located in a tropical climate and regarded as possessing the highest d... |
3 March 2007
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