Crosswords and cross words on the Internet
The crossword puzzle was created using a software package developed by Lewis. The instructor simply types the clues and their answers into the program, which then creates the crossword grid. Although ...
Doomsday Clock moves closer to midnight
The Doomsday Clock was set up in 1947 by atomic scientists concerned at the growing nuclear tensions between the US and Soviet Union. Initially the clock read seven minutes to midnight, and moved to t...
Hackers attack Stanford accelerator
The hacker or hackers managed to gain password access to SLAC by intercepting the username and password of a registered user accessing data inside SLAC’s firewall. The random behaviour of the ha...
Hydrogen exonerated in Hindenburg crash
William Van Vorst of the University of California at Los Angles and Addison Bain, an independent consultant, have gathered evidence that hydrogen could not have caused the explosion. Film footage and ...
Sloan Survey sees first light
The 2.5 m Sloan telescope is based at Apache Point Observatory in New Mexico. The telescope has an unusually wide field of view and one of the most advanced digital cameras ever built. The camera cons...
Complexity holds thekey to predicting epileptic seizures
In a process called electroencephalogram (EEG), brain activity is measured by strapping electrodes to the scalp. The electrodes record weak electrical waves produced from different parts of the brain ...
Deep Impact may be more than a movie
The researchers constructed a mathematical representation of the irregularly spaced near Earth asteroid Castalia for their calculations. They assumed it would be made of solid rock, a pair of solid ro...
South Africa approves new telescope
Astronomers involved with the project hope to use a lightweight multi-segment design similar to the Hobby-Eberly Telescope (HET) in Texas, which cost only about 20 per cent of what it would cost to bu...
Super-Kamiokande finds neutrino mass
Neutrinos come in three types – electron neutrinos, muon neutrinos and tau neutrinos – and only interact very weakly with matter, which makes them extremely difficult to detect. Neutrino d...
City risk pays off for physicists
In 1992 seven postgraduate students started their PhDs in the high-energy physics group at Imperial College, London. Six years later, three of them now work in international finance in the City of Lon...
