New evidence for dark energy in the universe
An international team of astronomers, led by scientists at the University of Manchester have produced new evidence that most of the energy in the Universe is in the form of the mysterious "Dark Energy". The new evidence comes from a 10-year census of the sky for examples of gravitational lenses, which are seen when a galaxy bends the light from a... view more... (2002-11-09)
Terror warning over laptops
DUNCAN GRAHAM-ROWE, WASHINGTON DC AIRLINERS could be brought down by terrorists using modified versions of almost any personal electronic equipment, a security expert has warned. He says passengers should be barred from carrying any electronic gadgets onto aircraft until planes are able to detect them. Chet Uber, a technology expert at Security... view more... (2002-09-11)
Discovery of most recent supernova in our galaxy
The most recent supernova in our Galaxy has been discovered by tracking the rapid expansion of its remains. This result, using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and NRAO's Very Large Array (VLA), has implications for understanding how often supernovas explode in the Milky Way galaxy. view more (2008-05-15)
How long is a day on Saturn?
Measuring the rotation period of a rocky planet like the Earth is easy, but similar measurements for planets made of gas, such as Saturn, pose problems. view more (2006-05-04)
Radio telescope images reveal planet-forming disk orbiting twin suns
Astronomers are announcing today that a sequence of images collected with the Smithsonian's Submillimeter Array (SMA) clearly reveals the presence of a rotating molecular disk orbiting the young binary star system V4046 Sagittarii. view more (2009-06-11)
Magnetism shapes beauty in the heavens
Using a technique based on the work of the 1902 Nobel Prizewinner, Pieter Zeeman, an international team of astronomers have, for the first time, provided conclusive proof that the magnetic field close to a number of aging stars is 10 to 100 times stronger than that of our own Sun. These observations suggest a solution to the long outstanding... view more... (2002-11-01)
Ring me for the song title
The quantity of digitally recorded music is exploding. The AudioID automatic recognition system not only keeps your play list under control. It sorts the collection on your hard disk, protects intellectual property rights, and recognizes song titles on the basis of a short extract. view more (2004-11-09)
Communications Technologies, the VTT Roadmaps
Finland's International Success Depends Increasingly on Communications Technology New opportunities will open up for Finland in the communications technology field in the near future. According to VTT, significant fields in the future will include smart human environments, micromechanical radio frequency systems, interoperability and mobility of... view more... (2002-09-17)
Interstellar searchlights catch star factories in their beams
Jets of particles from newly formed stars are acting like searchlights, piercing the gloom of dark interstellar clouds to pick out clumps of gas that may become future stars. Astronomers at University College London (UCL) and the University of Barcelona have discovered how these interstellar beams mark the clumps with a distinctive chemical... view more... (2002-04-04)
Black holes have simple feeding habits
The biggest black holes may feed just like the smallest ones, according to data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and ground-based telescopes. This discovery supports the implication of Einstein's relativity theory that black holes of all sizes have similar properties, and will be useful for predicting the properties of a conjectured new class... view more... (2008-06-19)
Robotiker Journalism Awards
The TV programme "Teknopolis" received the honourable mention in the Robotiker Journalism Awards. Pedro Guillén received the first prize for the work "Irlanda; el tigre celta" (Ireland; the celtic tiger). "Teknopolis", the TV programme of Elhuyar broadcast in the Basque Television, has received the honourable... view more... (2002-05-31)
Who's afraid of the big, bad wolf? Coyotes
While the wily coyote reigns as top dog in much of the country, it leads a nervous existence wherever it coexists with its larger relative, the wolf, according to a new study from the Wildlife Conservation Society. view more (2007-09-12)
A Strange Supernova with a Gamma-Ray Burst
On April 25, the BeppoSAX satellite detected a Gamma-Ray Burst from the direction of the constellation Telescopium, deep in the southern sky. Although there is now general consensus that they originate in very distant galaxies, the underlying physical causes of these events that release great amounts of energy within seconds are still puzzling... view more... (1998-10-15)
Ensonido: surround sound in digital radio for stereo headphones
5.1-channel surround sound in Digital Audio Broadcasting (DAB) can now be played back with standard stereo headphones - thanks to Ensonido, a new technology of Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS. At High End 2005 in Munich, Bayern Digital Radio and Fraunhofer IIS present for the first time multi-channel sound for headphones in... view more... (2005-05-03)
Milky Way's fastest pulsar is on its way out of the galaxy, astronomers find
The Milky Way's fastest observed pulsar is speeding out of the galaxy at more than 670 miles a second, propelled largely by a kick it received at its birth 2.5 million years ago. view more (2006-02-16)
Chalmers first with integrated receiver for high frequency applications
As the first research group in the world, researchers at Chalmers have succeeded in combining a receiver for high frequencies with an antenna on a small chip. view more (2007-11-29)
Little earth
Arts/science video installation to open in London (January) and Scotland (February). view more (2005-01-10)
Babies recognise individual monkey faces
Researchers at the University of Sheffield have shown that babies can be taught to distinguish between different monkey faces in the same way that they distinguish individual human faces. The team had previously demonstrated that babies begin life with a general ability to distinguish faces, regardless of species, but that this ability becomes... view more... (2005-04-19)
Neutron stars can be more massive, while black holes are more rare, Arecibo Observatory finds
Neutron stars and black holes aren't all they've been thought to be. In fact, neutron stars can be considerably more massive than previously believed, and it is more difficult to form black holes, according to new research developed by using the Arecibo Observatory in Arecibo, Puerto Rico. view more (2008-01-15)
Marconi Centenary is important lesson for British science & engineering
As the UK science community prepares to celebrate tomorrow`s centenary of the first transatlantic radio transmission, SBS today called on Government and Industry to learn the lessons of Guglielmo Marconi`s success. "When the signal was sent from Cornwall and picked up in Canada, Marconi showed just how effective British science and engineering can... view more... (2001-12-11)
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