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Onagawa Nuclear Power Plant
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The Onagawa Nuclear Power Plant is a nuclear power plant in Onagawa in the Oshika District and Ishinomaki city, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan. Read more
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Telephone
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A new book claims to have definitive evidence of a long-suspected technological crime that Alexander Graham Bell stole ideas for the telephone from a rival, Elisha Gray. In "The Telephone Gambit: Chasing Alexander Graham Bell's Secret," journalist Seth Shulman argues that Bell aide...
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Maharashtra Bhushan Award
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Scientist Narlikar named for Maharashtra state award Eminent space scientist and astronomer Jayant Narlikar has been named as the recipient of the prestigious Maharashtra Bhushan 2010, an official said Monday. The award, which consists of Rs.500,000 cash and a citation, is in recognition for N...
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Peak District National Park
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The Peak District National Park is lived in and visited by many and is an area of the countryside that currently has some dark skies. We are working with others to ensure that our special landscapes and skies are there for future generations to enjoy. We are looking to pursue international recogniti...
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Harran
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A few kilometres from Altnbaak are the archaeological remains of ancient Harran, a major commercial, cultural, and religious centre first inhabited in the Early Bronze Age III (3rd millennium BCE) period. The earliest records of Harran come from the Ebla tablets (c. 2300 BCE). From these, it is kn...
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Princaxelia Jamiesoni
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New shrimp named after scientist It's white, around 6cm long and has so far only been seen scuttling across the soft sediment floor five to six miles below the world's deepest ocean. Close-up photo of a male Princaxelia jamiesoni -courtesy of National Institute of Water and Atmospheric research, N...
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The Loves of Mars and Venus ballet
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The Loves of Mars and Venus was the first ballet in Britain. It was created on March 2, 1717. Read more
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27, Queen Street, Derby
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27, Queen Street was built by Stephen Flamsteed, father of famous astronomer John Flamsteed, in the 1600s. John, the first Astronomer Royal, who catalogued 3,000 stars, inherited it in 1688 and stayed there when in Derby. In 1764 John Whitehurst, a founder member of the Lunar Society and friend of f...
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Scams and Frauds
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Action Fraud is the place for you to find out about fraud. We're the UK's national fraud reporting centre. If you've been scammed, ripped off or conned, there is something you can do about it - get in touch with us. Read more Report a fraud http://www.ac...
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Altar of the Twelve Gods
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Renovation work on the aged Piraeus-Kifissia electric railway (ISAP) on the stretch between the central Athenian neighbourhoods of Monastiraki and Thisseio have brought to light one of the most exciting archaeological discoveries of recent years.
Archaeologists believe that remnants foun...
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Astronaut Hall of Fame
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Power line hurts workers at Astronaut Hall of Fame[url=http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/02/23/2082030/power-line...
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Polyconites hadriani
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Title: A New Species of Polyconites from the Lower Aptian of Iberia and the Early Evolution of Polyconitid Rudists Authors: PETER W. SKELTON, EULALIA GILI, TELM BOVER-ARNAL, RAMON SALAS & JOSEP ANTON MORENO-BEDMAR The main diagnostic character of polyconitid rudists is a distinctive ectom...
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Railway
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On 21 February 1804 the world's first railway journey took place as Richard Trevithick's unnamed steam locomotive hauled a train along the tramway of the Penydarren Ironworks, near Merthyr Tydfil in Wales. Read more
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Elm Farm Ollie
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Elm Farm Ollie (known as "Nellie Jay" and post-flight as "Sky Queen") was the first cow to fly in an airplane, doing so on 18 February 1930, as part of the International Air Exposition in St. Louis, Missouri, United States. Read more
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Xenacoelomorpha
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Xenacoelomorpha - a new phylum in the animal kingdom An international team of scientists including Albert Poustka from the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics in Berlin has discovered that Xenoturbellida and the acoelomorph worms, both simple marine worms, are more closely related to c...
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