The crew of the space shuttle Atlantis is spending its first full day in orbit. On the day’s work agenda, an inspection of the orbiter’s heat shield, and preparations for Sunday’s arrival at the International Space Station. The first shuttle mission of the year lifted off Friday with a
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Some tough questions about the space enigma of black holes are being answered in a new study. Two astrophysicists at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, have successfully tested a new method for determining the masses of black holes. Nikolai Shaposhnikov and Lev Titarchuk used an elegant technique
A Neptune-sized planet orbiting a star, 30 light-years away has been discovered, a team of European astronomers at Liege University-Belgium reported on Wednesday. Called GJ “436b”, the water world planet’s size and density measurements showed astronomers that it’s made up mainly of an exotic form of water not found on earth. This announcement follows last month’s discovery [...]
Online retailer giant, Amazon.com said on Wednesday it plans to launch an online digital music store later this year, offering millions of songs in the DRM-free MP3 format from more than 12,000 record labels. This follows a similar announcement made earlier last month by Apple and EMI, which also allowed the iPod maker to sell [...]
A team of NASA and university scientists has found clear evidence that extensive areas of snow melted in west Antarctica in January 2005 in response to warm temperatures. This was the first widespread Antarctic melting ever detected with NASA’s QuikScat satellite and the most significant melt observed using satellites during the past three decades. Combined, [...]
Vying for dominance and the spotlight of the mobile market, Motorola has debuted new products in hopes of recovering its market leadership sooner. On Tuesday, the company unveiled its next generation mobile devices 2007 lineup, which was led by its highly anticipated RAZR2. The RAZR2, which will debut around the world in July 2007, features [...]
Free will and true spontaneity exists in fruit flies, international team of researchers reported in a groundbreaking study in the May 16, 2007 issue of the open-access journal PLoS ONE. “Animals and especially insects are usually seen as complex robots which only respond to external stimuli,” says
With thousands of TV shows and video downloads coming through TiVo’s recently launched TiVoCast service jointly with Amazon Unbox, it makes it harder for users to search with just keywords, says TiVo. On Tuesday, the DVR maker introduced a new feature called “Universal Swivel Searchâ€. The new search feature provides broadband-connected TiVo subscribers the ability to [...]
Conservationists at the Hummingbird Conservancy in Colombia said on Monday they have discovered a new species of hummingbird in the Serrania del Pinche Mountains of Colombia. Called, Gorgeted Puffleg Eriocnemis isabellae, the flamboyantly colored hummingbird however was listed as an endangered species by the conservationists, citing concerns over its future safety, because the mountains where [...]
