What does your brain do as soon as you notice a door handle? It is already hard at work, noticing more and more details.
A simple door handle turns into a silver-plated antique-style-door-handle facing-right. Information about the handle also reaches the part of your brain responsible for planning movements, allowing you to turn the handle with [...]
A team of German and American astronomers have discovered the hottest white dwarf in the Universe, using NASA’s space-based Far-Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer (FUSE).
Known as white dwarf KPD 0005+5106, it is among the hottest stars ever known with a temperature of 200,000 K at its surface.
It is so hot that its photosphere exhibits emission lines in [...]
A low pressure system spinning over the Northeast provided wet conditions across the East Coast early Tuesday, while rain sprinkled the southern California coast and the Plains were clear.
Most of the mid-Atlantic states can expect a mix of rain and snow throughout the day, with parts of Pennsylvania, New York and Ohio seeing several inches [...]
Heavy snow and blustery winds were forecast for the Great Lakes region and the Northeast on Tuesday, while rain was expected in the mid-Atlantic and chilly temperatures were predicted in the South.
The heaviest snow in the Great Lakes was expected to fall over Michigan’s Upper Peninsula and southeastern Michigan, and between Lake Ontario and New [...]
The day has finally come when one can see bright meteors at an unprecedent speed.
Leonids will be seen on Monday, better known as earth gazers, at their peak, Space Director C B Devgun told a news agency on Sunday.
Leonids are a prolific meteor shower associated with the comet Tempel-Tuttle.
The meteor shower is visible [...]
Buoyed by the success of its maiden lunar mission, India on Thursday said it will send a second unmanned spacecraft to the moon by 2012.
The announcement came less than a week after Chandrayaan-1, India’s first unmanned spacecraft, entered lunar orbit for the start of a two-year mission.
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) said the second [...]
U.S. video game magnate Richard Garriott blasted off into space aboard a Russian rocket on Sunday watched by his father, a NASA astronaut who went into space at the height of the Cold War.
The Russian Soyuz TMA-13 spacecraft lifted off in clear weather from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on the Kazakh steppes just after 1.00 p.m. [...]
Computer scientists at the University of Utah in the US have written software they hope eventually will allow news reporters and citizens to easily, interactively and visually answer questions when analyzing election results, political opinion polls or other surveys.
The software displays data in the form of “radial” charts that are doughnut-shaped and include features of [...]
A Chinese astronaut on Saturday performed the nation’s first-ever spacewalk, the latest milestone in an ambitious program that is increasingly rivaling the United States and Russia in its rapid expansion.
Mission commander Zhai Zhigang floated out of the orbiter module’s hatch in the spacewalk, shown live on state broadcaster CCTV. Tethered to handles attached to the [...]
The first Chinese astronaut is likely to walk in space on Friday, a day after spacecraft Shenzhou VII lifts off.
The historic moment will be broadcast live across the world, said Cui Jijun, the commander-in-chief of the mission’s ground operation on Tuesday. He hoped that the space environment is expected to be fine for the mission.
Shenzhou [...]