‘Science’

Astronomers at the Leiden Obeservatory in the Netherlands have found a global superstorm taking place on HD 209458b (better known to astronomers as Osiris). This is the first time that such an astronomical activity has been observed to be unfolding outside our solar system. 0 Comments

Carnegie Institution's Geophysical Laboratory detects 100 times more water on the Moon than expected 0 Comments

The Falcon 9 rocket successfully took to space at its inaugural test flight on June 4, 2010. 0 Comments

Japan’s Chou University along with Fujitsu has announced that their T2K Open Supercomputer was successfully used by a research team to solve, for the first time, the optimization problem that revealed the behavior of ammonia (NH3), ethane(CH3) and oxygen (O2) at the molecular level. 0 Comments

Scientists from the University of Science and Technology, China and from Tsinghua University in Beijing have conducted successful experiments in teleporting information between photons in a distance longer than ever before. 0 Comments

A small piece of wood taken from the apple tree, under which Sir Isaac Newton was sitting 350 years ago when he discovered the law of gravity, will be carried into space on board the space shuttle Atlantis scheduled for lift-off next week from Cape Canaveral in Florida. 0 Comments

Dassault Aviation finalising plans for suborbital spacecraft 0 Comments

Japan to launch first solar sail spacecraft IKAROS 0 Comments

An unmanned prototype of a spaceplane, which has been developed for the US Military, has blasted off from Cape Canaveral on an experimental mission. 0 Comments

NASA has made Earth analysis a simpler and more collaborative process with the unveiling of its latest system that combines supercomputers with observations made through global satellites and complex models of the Earth. 0 Comments