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Professors from the University of Manchester in England won the Nobel Prize 2010 for Physics for their “groundbreaking” experiments with the two-dimensional material graphene. Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov, both originally from Russia, didn’t expect the Nobel prize this year…
After 11 years of observations using the HIRES spectrometer at the Keck Telescope in Hawaii, combined with data from the HARPS (High-Accuracy Radial-velocity Planet Searcher) instrument at the European Southern Observatory in La Silla, Chile — here comes Gliese 581g,…
NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory has found a cosmic “ghost” lurking around a distant supermassive black hole. This is the first detection of such a high-energy apparition, and scientists think it is evidence of a huge eruption produced by the black…
NASA’s 2010 hurricane experiment is in full swing as the tropics have heated up. NASA’s Global Hawk unmanned aircraft was sent out over this past weekend to conduct measurements on then Tropical Storm Frank in the eastern Pacific Ocean, the…
Stephen Hawking predicts that there will be human Extinction in 2110, unless humans abandon earth. Hawking’s views are given in: “Abandon Earth – or Face Extinction.” Here’s the key passage: “If we are the only intelligent beings in the galaxy,…
In March 2010, the Clay Mathematics Institute of Cambridge, Massachusetts awarded Russian genius Grigori Perelman, 43, a $1 million prize for proving the Poincare conjecture, one of seven problems on the institute’s Millennium Prize list. However, Perelman did not appear…
Vietnam expected to master the technology to manufacture small satellites by 2017, when the project to build the first national space centre is scheduled for completion, said the vice chairman of the Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology’s Space Technology…
Researchers have recently found that vitamin B6 can decrease lung cancer risk. Benefits of vitamin B6 include healthy hair, skin, blood flow, mind and immune system. The authors published their findings in the June 16 online edition of the Journal…
Visit this SpaceX page for the live webcast of first test flight of Falcon 9. The launch window for the first Falcon 9 test launch attempt is now scheduled for: Friday 4 June 2010 Launch Window Opens: 11:00 AM Eastern…
NASA update as Fri, 14 May 2010 10:01:39 AM CDT regarding the Space Shuttle launch happening this Friday afternoon. Space shuttle Atlantis’ six astronauts are boarding space shuttle Atlantis. Prelaunch activities continue on schedule as teams prepare for Atlantis’ liftoff…