- Guardian Unlimited Science
- 13/8/13 11:23
The Perseid meteor shower occurs every August with the best views on display Monday night, featuring as many as 60 meteors an hour visible to the naked...
The Perseid meteor shower occurs every August with the best views on display Monday night, featuring as many as 60 meteors an hour visible to the naked...
MONDAY 12. AUGUST 2013
According to scientific studies, religious people are less intelligent than non-believers. Do you...
Two boys sit inside Willamette – an iron meteorite weighing 14500 kg. It is the largest meteorite to be discovered in North America and the sixth largest in the worldKarin...
Trying on swimwear surrounded by giant mirrors is more harrowing than leaving home, daughter and dogI'm having a tough few weeks, emotionally, because soon I'll be off on my first holiday for 10 years, and to me, abroad is another planet. I must leave my home, daughter and dog, and even more harrowing, buy a new swimming costume. Mine has rotted. I'm not expecting a fun outing, it's just one of...
One of the year's most spectacular astronomical events, the Perseid meteor shower, will peak over the next two nights. With clear skies predicted, meteor watchers in the northern hemisphere are in for a treat. Have you ever seen a meteor?Carmen FishwickGuardian...
The late Nobel prize-winning physicist gave his name to the equation that lies at the heart of quantum mechanicsGoogle's latest doodle marks the birthday of Erwin Schrödinger, the Nobel prize-winning quantum physicist whose eponymous equation lies at the heart of quantum mechanics.Born in Vienna in 1887 to a factory owner and his Austrian-English wife, Schrödinger was tutored at home as a child...
SUNDAY 11. AUGUST 2013
The Perseids meteor shower is now in full flow as meteoroid particles from Comet Swift-Tuttle rain into the Earth's upper atmosphere at 59 km per second. Although they are following parallel paths, perspective causes them to diverge from a radiant point in Perseus which climbs from about 30° high in Britain's NE sky at nightfall to approach the zenith by dawn. Our chart shows it at midnight,...
Mechanical companions are making their mark again both in film and in real lifeThe world's first talking robot was launched into space this month. His mission: to serve as companion to astronaut Koichi Wakata. Roundish and 34cm tall, Kirobo (whose name combines the Japanese for "hope" and "robot") scores highly on any cute-ometer. But as part of a study to see how machines might provide emotional...