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Onbemande Progress op weg naar ISS (video)

Space.cweb.nl - 9 uren 11 min geleden

[ Baikonour, Kazachstan ] - Aanstaande zaterdag krijgt onze Nederlandse astronaut André Kuipers een belangrijke taak te doen aan boord het Internationaal ruimtestation ISS. Op woensdagavond is vanaf de Russische ruimtehaven Baikonour in Kazachstan een onbemande Progress ruimtevrachtvaartuig gelanceerd en zal André deze komende zaterdag begeleiden bij het aanmeren. Normaal gesproken zal de Russische Progress automatisch aanmeren, maar mocht het nodig zijn dan kan André het ruimtevaartuig ook manueel aanmeren. Bekijk hier de video van de lancering van de Progress op woensdagavond 25 januari.

Categorieën: Ruimtevaart

Boiled-to-death penguins are back from the brink

NewScientist/Ecologie - 20 uren 10 min geleden

DNA analysis shows Macquarie Island's king penguins are back in numbers and genetic diversity. If only they could kick out the rampaging rabbits

Categorieën: Ecologie

Nash's beautiful mind pre-empted million-dollar puzzle

NewScientist/Fysica - di, 21/02/2012 - 18:19

In recently declassified letters, Nobel laureate John Nash penned ideas about cryptography and computational complexity decades before their time

Categorieën: Fysica en Wiskunde

Harnessing the quantum power of empty space

NewScientist/Fysica - ma, 20/02/2012 - 11:43

The elusive Casimir effect suggests we could use vacuum energy to move objects and make stuff – but can something really come from nothing?

Categorieën: Fysica en Wiskunde

How fresco-wrecking salty towers build themselves

NewScientist/Fysica - zo, 19/02/2012 - 11:00

Tiny coral-like formations of salt sometimes sprout up on brickwork, and now researchers know why – which could help save delicate frescoes

Categorieën: Fysica en Wiskunde

Underground oasis found below Earth's driest desert

NewScientist/Ecologie - za, 18/02/2012 - 01:25

A thriving community of microbes flourishes two metres below the surface of Chile's parched Atacama desert – the news bodes well for the chances of Mars life

Categorieën: Ecologie

Leaked files expose Heartland Institute's secrets

NewScientist/Ecologie - do, 16/02/2012 - 18:56

The tables have been well and truly turned in "deniergate", the leak of documents from a key climate-sceptic think tank in the US, says Bob Ward

Categorieën: Ecologie

Japan's megaquake disturbed creatures beneath the sea

NewScientist/Ecologie - do, 16/02/2012 - 18:54

The 2011 earthquake triggered the release of a methane plume from the ocean crust to the east of Japan – carrying microbes that live in the crust with it

Categorieën: Ecologie

Sterile neutrinos leave ghostly fingerprints on cosmos

NewScientist/Fysica - do, 16/02/2012 - 14:21

Hypothetical particles that have been playing hide-and-seek with physicists for decades may finally be stepping into view

Categorieën: Fysica en Wiskunde

The ups and downs in the search for sterile neutrinos

NewScientist/Fysica - do, 16/02/2012 - 12:15

Physicists have had a tumultuous love affair with the hypothetical particle, as this timeline shows

Categorieën: Fysica en Wiskunde

Uncharted waters: Probing aquifers to head off war

NewScientist/Ecologie - wo, 15/02/2012 - 15:31

Nearly all our fresh water comes from obscure underground deposits – now satellites and radioactive isotopes are telling us how much we have to go round

Categorieën: Ecologie

US to resume building nuclear plants

NewScientist/Ecologie - di, 14/02/2012 - 16:58

The US has finally approved the construction of its first nuclear reactors since 1978 – but the real nuclear revival will be elsewhere

Categorieën: Ecologie

Quantum dots control brain cells for the first time

NewScientist/Fysica - di, 14/02/2012 - 16:50

Using quantum dots to generate brain signals offers new potential for treating blindness, Alzheimer's and even depression

Categorieën: Fysica en Wiskunde

Hurricanes deliver fatal blows to wind turbines

NewScientist/Ecologie - ma, 13/02/2012 - 21:00

Nearly half of the US turbines soon to be built in the Atlantic and the Gulf are likely to be destroyed by hurricanes

Categorieën: Ecologie

LHC boosts energy to snag Higgs – and superpartners

NewScientist/Fysica - ma, 13/02/2012 - 18:57

Physicists at the Large Hadron Collider hope that raising the energy of collisions still further will settle the question of the elusive Higgs particle

Categorieën: Fysica en Wiskunde