Trayvon Martin does not deserve to die. Everyone has the story of 17-year-old black man who was on his way home from a gas station in Florida, where he was shot dead by a self-appointed guardians of the neighborhood to hear. Zimmerman was not arrested until recently because it was ...

Freight transport "Progress M-15M" launched Sputnik into orbit and adopted by the Management Control Center near Moscow flights. The press service of the Russian Space Agency.

U.S. President Barack Obama announced the winners of a major national award for research - the National Science Medal and National Medal of Technology and Innovation. It is reported ScienceNow. Medal of Science were seven scientists Jacqueline Barton (Jacqueline Barton) for the discovery of new properties ...

NASA disclosed information on the crash site satellite UARS (Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite), has fallen to Earth on September 24. As reported at the site office on Tuesday, September 27, the satellite entered the atmosphere in the Southern Hemisphere over the Pacific Ocean. The exact coordinates ...

Scientists learn to identify species composition and number of animals in a given region, by analyzing DNA isolated from soil. The work of researchers published in the journal Molecular Ecology, and briefly wrote about it Nature News. The researchers isolated nucleic acid samples from the ground ...

Astronomers from France and Italy have found that the superluminal speed of muon neutrinos, the detector recorded OPERA, may explain the characteristic gamma-ray burst (GRB). Article scientists have not yet been published in peer-reviewed journal, but its preprint available at arXiv. org. As part of the ...

Check the equipment on board the telescope "Spektr-R, " confirmed its high sensitivity. It is reported LPI-Info - News Agency of Physics Institute of RAS the Lebedev, who is responsible for the scientific component of the program. According to the agency, were tested, all four ...

Satellite UARS (Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite - satellite for studying the upper layers of the atmosphere) fell to Earth. On September 24 it reported at NASA. As noted in NASA's microblogging service Twitter, victims and destructions. The message on the website of the U.S. space agency ...

Astronomers have estimated the mass of Betelgeuse - it is about 13 solar masses. Article appears in the anthology The 9th Pacific Rim Conference on Stellar Astrophysics, and its preprint available at arXiv.org. Despite the fact that Betelgeuse was discovered long ago, still do not know ...

In Moscow, opened the festival of contemporary scientific movie "360 ". From September 22 to October 2 at multiple sites viewers will show 23 paintings by contemporary filmmakers. Showtimes available on the festival website. Tickets can be purchased just before the session or to book ...