The site of the ancient hippodrome course in Olympia,where the emperor Nero competed for Olympian laurels,has been discovered.The hippodrome had only been known from written sources.Archaeologists had failed to locate its actual site.Pausanias,a travel>>
Lightning sparks considerable confusion among scientists, who are baffled by it's link to X-rays. They want to determine whether lightning strikes to aircraft could endanger passengers. First noted by Sunstroke author David Kagan in Doomwatch Legacy.
Scientists and engineers are preparing the European Space Agency's Mars Express for several close flybys of the martian moon Phobos.Passing within 100 kilometers of the surface,Mars Express will conduct some of the most detailed investigations of the moon
University of Florida and Florida Institute of Technology engineering researchers have narrowed the search for the source of X-rays emitted by lightning,a feat that could one day help predict where lightning will strike."From a practical point of view,if>
The shortage of fresh water on planet Earth is likely to become the biggest problem ever during the forthcoming decades. Experts from the International Water Management Institute said in their recent report that the water crisis in the world would occur b
Richard Perez, an international expert in the science behind solar energy, is the recipient of the Daylight and Building Component Award for 2008. Perez will receive 100,000 Euro from The Villum Kann Rasmussen Fonden and The Velux Fonden for his contribut
Archaeoastronomy's goal is to understand how skywatchers of the past fashioned and refined systems for regulating their primitive calendars and for memorializing celestial events,both cyclical and unique.Often they relied on sunlight and shadow plays>>>
Juvenile chimpanzees beat adult humans in two different short-term memory tests, according to a study conducted by researchers at Kyoto University in Japan and published in the journal Current Biology.
NOAA will lead a research expedition July 7-26 to study the wrecks of three German submarines sunk by U.S.forces in 1942 off the coast of N.Car.Researchers will survey visible sections of 3 subs,U-352,U-85 and U-701.
using non-invasive methods.The survey
Rather than suppressing local communities in developing nations, nature reserves attract human settlement, according to a new study by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley.
Abu Simbel, site of two temples on the Nile River, south of Aswān, in southern Egypt. The temples were carved out of a sandstone cliff about 1250 bc during the reign of Ramses II.
Arecibo Observatory,the world's largest radio telescope and the source for the SETI@home data that your computer analyzes,faces massive budget cuts that will end its ability to continue the search for life beyond Earth.The decision to ensure full funding
Scientists have argued about the origins of Mercury's smooth plains and the source of its magnetic field for more than 30 yrs.Now,analyses of data from the Jan. 2008 flyby of the planet by MESSENGER Spacecraft have shown that volcanoes were involved in>>
Scientists are using the giant Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope (GBT) to go prospecting in a rich molecular cloud in our Milky Way Galaxy.They seek to discover new,complex molecules in interstellar space that may be precursors to life.As molecules rota
