January 27, 2005

• James Gunn, James Peebles, and Martin Rees are awarded the 2005 Crafoord Prize for their work on the large-scale structure of the Universe. (Science)

January 27 is the 27th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 2005 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and is the current year. ... James E. Gunn is the Eugene Higgins Professor of Astronomy at Princeton University. ... Philip James Edwin Peebles (born April 25, 1935) is an Canadian-American astronomer. ... Sir Martin John Rees, FRS (born 23 June 1942) is a professor of astronomy. ... The Crafoord Prize was established by Holger Crafoord, the inventor of the artificial kidney and his wife Anna-Greta Crafoord in 1980. ... The deepest visible-light image of the cosmos. ...

January 26, 2005

• Sun Microsystems released more than 1,600 patents to the open-source community, following the release of the source code to Solaris 10. (EcommerceTimes)

January 26 is the 26th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 2005 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and is the current year. ... Sun Microsystems (Sun Microsystems, Inc. ... A patent is a set of exclusive rights granted by a state to a person for a fixed period of time in exchange for the regulated, public disclosure of certain details of a device, method, process or substance (known as an invention) which is new, inventive and useful. ... Open source denotes that a product includes permission to use its source code, design documents, or origins in part or in whole. ... Source code (commonly just source or code) is any series of statements written in some human-readable computer programming language. ... The Solaris Operating Environment is a computer operating system, based on the open-source UNIX SunOS developed by Sun Microsystems. ...

January 25, 2005

• Scientists at the University of Manchester have developed a printer able to produce human skin to help wounds heal. (ManchesterOnline)

January 25 is the 25th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 2005 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and is the current year. ... The University of Manchester in Manchester, England is a university that was formed from the merger of the Victoria University of Manchester (commonly known as the University of Manchester before the merger) and UMIST (University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology) on 1 October 2004. ... Model of the layers of human skin In zootomy and dermatology, skin is an organ of the integumentary system; which is composed of a layer of tissues that protect underlying muscles and organs. ... A wound is a physical trauma where the skin is torn, cut or punctured. ...

January 20, 2005

• Mars rover Opportunity uses its spectrometers to prove that Heat Shield Rock is a meteorite, the first to be found on another planet. (BBC) (Space.com)

January 20 is the 20th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 2005 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and is the current year. ... Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun in the solar system, named after the Roman god of war (the counterpart of the Greek Ares), on account of its blood red color as viewed in the night sky. ... A Mars Rover is an unmanned land vehicle for exploration of the planet Mars. ... MER-B (Opportunity) is the second of the two rovers of NASAs Mars Exploration Rover Mission. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... Heat shield, with Heat Shield Rock just above and to the left in the background (click to enlarge) Heat Shield Rock is a basketball-sized iron-nickel meteorite found on Mars by the Mars rover Opportunity in January 2005. ... Bacubirito in Culiacan, Mexico is the second largest meteorite in the Americas, and fifth largest in the world A meteorite is a small extraterrestrial body that reaches the Earths surface. ...

January 17, 2005

• The Swift observatory images the first ongoing GRB with its X-ray telescope, after it automatically pointed itself towards the direction of the burst. (Spaceflightnow)

January 17 is the 17th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 2005 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and is the current year. ... The Swift Gamma-Ray Burst Mission consists of an unmanned spacecraft called Swift, which was launched into orbit on November 20, 2004, at 17:16:00 UTC (12:16 PM, EST) on top of a Delta 2 rocket. ... Optical afterglow of gamma ray burst GRB-990123 (the bright dot within the white square and in the enlarged cutout) on 23 January 1999. ... In the NATO phonetic alphabet, X-ray represents the letter X. An X-ray picture (radiograph) taken by Röntgen An X-ray is a form of electromagnetic radiation with a wavelength approximately in the range of 5 pm to 10 nanometers (corresponding to frequencies in the range 30 PHz...

January 14, 2005

• The Cassini-Huygens mission delivers the Huygens probe to Saturn's moon Titan successfully. Radio signals received on Earth indicate that the probe survived the touchdown onto the surface of the moon. Data relayed by the Cassini orbiter has arrived on Earth and is currently being analyzed. (BBC)

January 14 is the 14th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 2005 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and is the current year. ... This is an artists concept of Cassini during the Saturn Orbit Insertion (SOI) maneuver, just after the main engine has begun firing. ... A scale replica of the probe An artists impression of the Huygens probe as it descends through Titans murky, brownish-orange atmosphere of nitrogen and carbon-based molecules, beaming its findings to the distant Cassini orbiter. ... Atmospheric characteristics Atmospheric pressure 140 kPa Hydrogen >93% Helium >5% Methane 0. ... Titan (tye-tun, Greek Τιτάνας) is the largest moon of Saturn and the second largest moon in the solar system[1], after Jupiters moon Ganymede. ... Earth, also known as the Earth, Terra, and (mostly in the 19th century) Tellus, is the third planet outward from the Sun. ... Earth, also known as the Earth, Terra, and (mostly in the 19th century) Tellus, is the third planet outward from the Sun. ...

January 13, 2005

• NASA's MER-B Opportunity rover on Mars spots what appears to be a metallic meteorite on the surface of Meridiani Planum. More investigation will be carried out to determine the object's nature. (Space.com)

January 13 is the 13th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 2005 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and is the current year. ... The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), which was established in 1958, is the agency responsible for the public space program of the United States of America. ... MER-B (Opportunity) is the second of the two rovers of NASAs Mars Exploration Rover Mission. ... Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun in the solar system, named after the Roman god of war (the counterpart of the Greek Ares), on account of its blood red color as viewed in the night sky. ... Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity looks southwest across Meridiani Planum; the Rovers discarded backshell and parachute are visible in the distance Hematite deposits in Meridiani Planum mapped from orbit, with Opportunity rover landing site ellipse Meridiani Planum is a plain located 2 degrees south of Mars equator, in the westernmost...

January 12, 2005

• NASA's Deep Impact mission, which plans to crash a projectile into Comet Tempel 1, is launched from Cape Canaveral at 18:47 UTC. The projectile released by the spacecraft is scheduled to hit the comet on July 4. (BBC).
• European researchers at the National Institute for Medical Research in London have discovered that a small change in a single gene (Trim-5alpha) prevents HIV-1 from replicating in monkeys. This suggests a new method of gene therapy for AIDS. (Abstract, Curr Bio) (NIMR Press Release) (EarthTimes)
• Lowell Observatory announces the discovery of the three largest, though not heaviest, stars to date. Each is 1500 times larger than our sun. However, since they are red giants at the end of their life, they are not very dense and are only 25 times heavier than our sun. (Lowell Observatory Press Release) (Preprint PDF file) (BBC)
• Rats can distinguish between languages with very different intonation patterns. Spanish neuroscientists trained rats to distinguish between Dutch and Japanese speech. They are the third mammal, after humans and Tamarin monkeys, that has been shown to be able to do this. NYT APA Press Release
• Palaeontologists unearth a new species of Mesozoic mammal Repenomamus giganticus in China. R. giganticus would resemble a large badger and fossilized stomach contents show that it ate small dinosaurs. (Nature)

January 12 is the 12th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 2005 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and is the current year. ... The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), which was established in 1958, is the agency responsible for the public space program of the United States of America. ... Illustration of the Deep Impact space probe after impactor separation (artists conception) Deep Impact is a NASA space probe designed to study the composition of the interior of the comet Tempel 1. ... Tempel 1 is a periodic comet (formally designated 9P/Tempel 1). ... Cape Canaveral from space, August 1991 Cape Canaveral is a strip of land in Brevard County, Florida, United States, near the center of that states Atlantic coast. ... UTC also stands for the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Coordinated Universal Time or UTC, also sometimes referred to as Zulu time, the basis for civil time, differs by an integral number of seconds from atomic time and a fractional number of seconds from UT1. ... Ariane 5 lifts off with the Rosetta space probe on March 2, 2004. ... July 4 is the 185th day of the year (186th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 180 days remaining. ... The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is a frequently mutating retrovirus that attacks the human immune system and which has been shown to cause acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS). ... Gene therapy using an Adenovirus vector. ... The Red Ribbon is the global symbol for solidarity with HIV positive and people living with AIDS. The Red Ribbon was created by singer/songwriter Paul Jabara AIDS is an acronym for Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome or Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome and is defined as a collection of symptoms and infections... Percival observing Mars from the Clark telescope at the Lowell Observatory. ... The Pleiades star cluster A star is any massive gaseous body in outer space. ... By ancient tradition, the Sun is the light in the heavens whose presence is day and whose absence is night. ... According to the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram, a red giant is a large non-main sequence star of stellar classification K or M; so-named because of the reddish appearance of the cooler giants. Examples include Aldebaran and Arcturus. ... Species 50 species; see text *Several subfamilies of Muroids include animals called rats. ... Intonation is the variation of tone used when speaking. ... A paleontologist carefully chips rock from a column of dinosaur vertebrae. ... The Mesozoic is one of three geologic eras of Phanerozoic eon. ... Orders Subclass Monotremata Monotremata Subclass Marsupialia Didelphimorphia Paucituberculata Microbiotheria Dasyuromorphia Peramelemorphia Notoryctemorphia Diprotodontia Subclass Placentalia Xenarthra Dermoptera Desmostylia Scandentia Primates Rodentia Lagomorpha Insectivora Chiroptera Pholidota Carnivora Perissodactyla Artiodactyla Cetacea Afrosoricida Macroscelidea Tubulidentata Hyracoidea Proboscidea Sirenia The mammals are the class of vertebrate animals characterized by the presence of mammary glands... Species Repenomamus robustus Repenomamus giganticus Repenomamus is the largest mammal known from the Cretaceous period of the Mesozoic, and the only one with evidence that it ate dinosaurs. ... Suborders  Mydeus  Arctonyx  Melogale  Meles  Mellivora  Taxidea Badger is the common name for any animal of three subfamilies, which belong to the family Mustelidae: the same mammal family as the ferrets, the weasels, the otters, and several other types of carnivore. ... Orders Saurischia    Sauropodomorpha    Theropoda Ornithischia Dinosaurs are animals that dominated the terrestrial ecosystem for over 100 million years. ...

January 11, 2005

• IBM announces that it's donating 500 technology patents to open-source groups. (Boston Herald)

January 11 is the 11th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 2005 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and is the current year. ... International Business Machines Corporation (IBM, or colloquially, Big Blue) (NYSE: IBM) (incorporated June 15, 1911, in operation since 1888) is headquartered in Armonk, NY, USA. The company manufactures and sells computer hardware, software, and services. ... A patent is a set of exclusive rights granted by a state to a person for a fixed period of time in exchange for the regulated, public disclosure of certain details of a device, method, process or substance (known as an invention) which is new, inventive and useful. ... Open source denotes that a product includes permission to use its source code, design documents, or origins in part or in whole. ...

January 10, 2005

• According to a study published in the Journal of Nonverbal Behavior, people in love are terrible at judging whether others are in love. (Oregon State University Press Release)

January 10 is the 10th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 2005 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and is the current year. ... A heart, a symbol of love Love has many meanings in English, from something that gives a little pleasure (I loved that meal) to something one would die for (patriotism, pairbonding). ...

January 3, 2005

• Wildlife officials in Sri Lanka have reported that, despite the loss of human life in the Asian disaster, there have been no recorded animal deaths. (BBC).
• The devastating earthquake that struck the Indian Ocean probably caused some islands to move by several metres. (BBC).
• The silicon chip is the most significant invention developed during the past 50 years, according to a poll of CNN.com users. (CNN).
• NASA celebrates the first anniversary of the Spirit rover's landing on Mars. (Xinhua) (National Geographic).