Electrical engineers at the University of California in San Diego (UCSD) have developed the world’s most complex “phased array” – or radio frequency integrated circuit. Funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), this device is expected to find ...
Space Disease in Peru?
Last Thursday, September 20th, 2007 the occupants of a small isolated village in southern Peru, not far from the Bolivian border, reported hearing a loud explosion. The locals rushed in the direction of the sound and found that a large ...
Massive Solar Flare on a Nearby Star
The image shows a typical solar flare from our sun, captured in September 2005 in the X-ray waveband by NASA’s TRACE satellite. A solar flare is an explosion on the Sun’s atmosphere that occurs when energy stored in twisted magnetic ...