Diggers threaten ancient monument

Millennia of back-breaking graft by prehistoric northerners, which created one of the greatest ancient monuments in Britain, may be brushed aside in a matter of months by modern quarrying, according to campaigners and archaeologists in North Yorkshire.

Race for 'God particle' heats up

Europe's particle physics lab, Cern, is losing ground rapidly in the race to discover the elusive Higgs boson, or "God particle", its US rival claims. The particle, whose existence has been predicted by theoreticians, would help to explain why matter has mass. Finding the Higgs is a major goal of Cern's Large Hadron Collider (LHC).

Why Dolphins Get Trapped In Nets

It has long been known that dolphins use sonar to hunt and avoid obstacles, even in the dark. Yet despite this sophisticated navigation system, via sound waves and echoes, thousands die each year when they become entangled in fishing nets.

How a Cloud of Space Dust Could Wipe Out Life on Earth

Seemingly innocuous specks could throw off the whole solar system—and we might not see them until it's too late. If this were some 1950s sci-fi thriller, the Doomsday Cloud would loom dark and ominous in the evening sky. Each night more stars would wink out along its edges. The cloud would sweep past Jupiter, swallowing it whole, and race on toward Earth. There would be an inky darkness at noon. And so on.

New insights into the mystery of natural HIV immunity

When people become infected by HIV, it's usually only a matter of time, barring drug intervention, until they develop full-blown AIDS. However, a small number of people exposed to the virus progress very slowly to AIDS -- and some never develop the disease at all.

Rutan ready to realise vision

As the first X-Prize flights go ahead, BBC News Online asks SpaceShipOne's Burt Rutan to explain his motivation and vision. Rutan was drawn to the dark side of the Moon

New Jellyfish Species Found

In the Monterey Submarine Canyon at depths of 2,100 feet (645 meters) and more, is a cold, dark world inhabited by strange creatures including vampire squid and football fish. But now researchers have identified one of the strangest of all, a new species of jellyfish.

TV CREW STUMBLES UPON FOREST 'GHOST'

A frightened television crew had to be rescued from the dark depths of Epping Forest after allegedly stumbling upon the ghost of Dick Turpin during a live night-time broadcast.

GM Fish Glows In The Bowl

A Taiwanese company has created a genetically modified (GM) ornamental fish that glows in the dark. The Taikong Corporation took DNA from a jellyfish and inserted it into a zebra fish to make it shine a yellow-green colour.

A small sacrifice for a Long Man

The curious Ian Vince is willing to go to huge lengths to join a hillside pagan ritual I am hiding behind a long wall in an East Sussex car park trying to keep dry in the face of a blustery squall, but it's not working. Wherever I stand, the wind and its cargo of super-sized raindrops seeks me out this side of the wall, that side of the wall, it doesn't matter.

Archeologists uncover a Russian "Stonehenge"

Russia now has a Stonehenge of its own. In the summer, a 4,000-year-old megalithic structure was uncovered at a Spasskaya Luka site, in the central Russian region of Ryazan. This structure, which, archeologists believe, was built as a sanctuary, sits on a hill overlooking the confluence of the Oka and the Pron rivers. The surrounding area has always been seen as an "archeological encyclopedia," a kaleidoscope of cultures ranging from the Upper Paleolithic to the Dark Ages.

New technique could give super-cool molecules

Molecules could be super-cooled to within a whisker of absolute zero, suggest physicists who have for the first time chilled atoms in a fridge made of mirrors. A rash of breakthroughs in physics stemmed from the invention of a technique to reduce the temperature of atoms. Called "laser cooling", this led to more accurate atomic clocks and even created new forms of matter.

Harappa haunts...

THE FOUR great ancient centres of civilisation in the old world are the river valleys – those of the Nile, the Tigris-Euphrates, the Huang Ho and the Indus. The existence of the Indus valley civilisation was known about 80 years ago. But still, many questions about the people of this civilisation remain unanswered. Even the question of naming these people is a matter of controversy. [View as single article...] [Follow article link...] May 9 2003 Royal Mummy For Restoration In US Royal Mummy For Restoration In US Atlantis Carlos Museum in the US has decided to restore a mummy of an Egyptian pharaoh by the end of the year. The mummy had been stolen from a tomb in the Valley of Kings in Luxor.A museum official said that the mummy most probably belongs to Ramses I (1292- 1290 BC). [View as single article...] [Follow article link...] January 20 2003 Earth’s capture of the moon c.2000bc GrahamHancock.com Reader Argues for New Moon How Earth gained such a large moon is still one of the great unsolved mysteries of our time. I propose past planetary chaos involving Earth, Mars and Venus resulted in the capture of the moon in orbit around the Earth c.2000 BC. This chaotic ‘capture’ of the moon paralleling a “Dark Age” as proposed by archaeologists. [View as single article...] [Follow article link...] August 25 2008 Living with a Star What if you woke up one morning and found your whole planet had been swallowed by the atmosphere of a star? Get out of bed, look out the window. Auroras are dancing along the horizon. Dark sunspots crackle overhead—each little 'pop' more powerful than a nuclear bomb. On TV, a weather forecaster warns astronauts, "a solar flare is sure to erupt," although he can't say exactly when. Moments later, the satellite signal begins to flicker. [View as single article...] [Follow article link...] December 13 2009 The dark side of space about to be illuminated One might think that after centuries of scanning the night skies, mankind would have a pretty clear idea of who our galactic neighbors are, and whether they mean us harm. That's not the case. Vast landscapes of the cosmos remain hidden to us because most of our telescopes plumb the heavens for light that can be seen by the human eye -- and that constitutes only a narrow band of the electromagnetic spectrum. [View as single article...] [Follow article link...] April 1 2010 Scientists to Levitate Drops of Liquid to Study Glass Physicists are building a levitation chamber to suspend a drop of liquid in mid-air and watch its atoms as it cools into glass. The machine should help clarify the mystery of glass, which is a puzzling state where matter is more like a liquid than a solid. Physicists want to better understand what happens to the atoms in a material when it transitions from a liquid to a glass. [View as single article...] [Follow article link...] May 1 2003 Physicists Find 'Rebel' Particle Physicists Find 'Rebel' Particle Physicists have found a new subatomic particle, named Ds (2317). It will help them better understand the building blocks of matter. The particle consists of an unusual combination of more fundamental particles - quarks. [View as single article...] [Follow article link...] May 10 2003 'Pollution' Threatens Night Sky 'Pollution' Threatens Night Sky A new campaign is being launched on Friday to combat the growing problem of so-called light pollution in the UK. Researchers have found that a good view of the night sky is becoming more and more difficult in the countryside. [View as single article...] [Follow article link...] News desk archive... Page:  <<<  prev  6  7  8  9  10  11  12  13  14  15  next  >>> Site design and maintenance by Amazing Internet Ltd. Site privacy policy. Contact us. Site hosted by GigeNET.