In 1988 the Soviet Union launched two probes to study Mars and its two moons Phobos and Deimos. Unlike most other Russian missions around the solar system, the Phobos I and II missions were done with some cooperation with the United States, which contributed the use of the Deep Space radio telescope network, along with [...]
A Minnesota Planetarium Video- Natural Radio: When solar flares hit the Earth’s magnetic field, the skies at both poles can light up with auroras. The particles also create very low frequency electromagnetic waves, a type of natural radio that can be picked up around the globe. Every year sound recordist Steve McGreevy heads north where [...]
Check out this cool new technology Philips is showcasing at IFA 2006 in Berlin. It’s amazing! They are integrating LEDs into fabric and had some jackets and a couch there. Really cool!
The video shows a 1991 surgery in which the world’s largest intact tumor, a whopping 303-pounder, was removed from an unnamed 34-year-old female patient’s abdomen.
The 118-year-old cylinder that is the international prototype for the metric mass, kept tightly under lock and key outside Paris, is mysteriously losing weight - if ever so slightly. Physicist Richard Davis of the International Bureau of Weights and Measures in Sevres, southwest of Paris, says the reference kilo appears to have lost 50 micrograms [...]
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