A NASA Scientist Explains How the Moon was Made
Discover how the moon impacts our climate, how it got locked in a synchronous rotation with the earth, how tides work, and why some scientists suggest that without the moon life on earth may never have developed.
World’s First Controllable Molecular Nano-Gear
Scientists from A*STAR’s Institute of Materials Research and Engineering (IMRE), led by Professor Christian Joachim,* have scored a breakthrough in nanotechnology by becoming the first in the world to invent a molecular gear of the size of 1.2nm whose rotation can be deliberately controlled.
Ad Management Plug-Ins And Tutorials For Your Website
This post is a collection of ad management plug-ins for WordPress, Movable Type, Drupal and Joomla! to get your started. At the end are a few tutorials for creating your own banner ad rotation scripts in PHP and ASP (so that even if a plug-in is not available for your CMS of choice, you’ll likely be able to build your own).
Marvel: Ultimate Alliance 2 New 3D Screenshots
Vicarious Visions has released its second 3D screenshot of the upcoming Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2 mash up. This second batch of screenshots features ‘Deadpool’ (one of my favs) and ‘Iron Fist’. The cool thing about these 3d screenshot is that it rotates around. Ok.. just check it out and be amazed…
74-year-old Army doc deployed to Afghanistan
Dr. John Burson, a 74-year-old retired ear, nose and throat specialist, looks forward to his 90-day rotation in Afghanistan with a unit of the 101st Airborne Division.
Icemelt Could Shift Earth’s Rotation, Moving Water Northward
Long-term sea level increases that could have a devastating effect on southern Florida and highly populated coastal areas may be even larger than once thought, a report suggests. The melting of ice in Antarctica and other areas could raise sea levels by 17 feet, a potential threat to coastal areas such as New York City and California.
Study: The Dark Side of the Moon May Have Once Faced Earth
In a paper in press for the journal Icarus, geophysicists postulate that our natural satellite was once rotated 180 degrees, with the current far side of the moon facing Earth.
Discovered: spinning frozen arctic circle in British waters
Ice circles are known to appear in the Arctic, Scandinavia and Canada, but this is thought to be the first seen in Britain. And now we know how they are formed – they occur at bends in the river where the accelerating water creates a force called ‘rotational shear’, which breaks off a chunk of ice and twists it around.
Rhys Millen’s Truck Backflip – New Year’s Eve 2008 (VIDEO)
Rhys Millen was nearly able to backflip a truck at the Red Bull: New Year. No Limits. event in Las Vegas. His speed and rotation were perfect, but a slightly off-balance landing prevented him from riding away clean.
“Leap Second” will be added to 2008
By international agreement, the world’s timekeepers, in order to keep their official atomic clocks in step with the world’s irregular but gradually slowing rotation, have decreed that a Leap Second be inserted between 2008 and 2009.