GOCE orbit is so low that it experiences drag from the outer edges of Earth’s atmosphere. The satellite’s streamline structure and use of electric propulsion system counteract atmospheric drag to ensure that the data are of true gravity. (Credit: ESA – AOES Medialab) The final gravity map and model of the geoid based on GOCE [...]

From left to right and up to down, DNA structure movements that permit to get an idea about the mechanism by which DNA starts to unfold. (Credit: Copyright A. Pérez, courtesy IRB) The scientists Modesto Orozco, group leader of the Molecular Modelling and Bioinformatics Group at IRB Barcelona, Full Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology [...]

Image of the auroral oval taken by the IMAGE spacecraft in ultraviolet. (Credit: IMAGE-FUV team/NASA) Dr Colin Forsyth presented the results at the RAS National Astronomy Meeting (NAM2010) in Glasgow on April 12. The aurora, or northern and southern lights, are caused by highly energetic charged particles, normally held in space by Earth’s magnetic field, [...]

This first image of the sun from the GOES-15 SXI instrument from June 2, 2010 was a cause for celebration. (Credit: NASA/NOAA/Lockheed Martin) Scientists and engineers from NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) have been working to bring the Solar X-Ray Imager (SXI) instrument to full functionality since the Geostationary Operational Environmental [...]

Racing Green Endurance Vehicle. (Credit: Image courtesy of Imperial College London) The Racing Green Endurance (RGE) team, from Imperial College London, aim to drive two laps around the M25 in their specially modified electric Radical SRZERO supercar. This would break the current record held by a team in a Tesla electric car, which did one [...]

Those in Europe may have been enjoying the Streak for quite a while now, but Americans just got to use the handset as it’s been made available on their market recently. So, if you live in the US and have been planning to get one of the new Streaks, you may want to read this [...]

Rumors have been flying around about a subscription-based Call of Duty game for some time now — Activision boss Bobby Kotick loves the idea, because he loves money, and the company’s other subscription-based game, World of Warcraft, is quite the cash-printing machine. So why not go down that road? Many still believe Activision will, including [...]

The long line of customers in front of Sprint stores in the US on Day One of sales of the HTC EVO 4G has set a new record for the carrier.  HTC EVO 4G sales broke an earlier Sprint record held by both Samsung Instinct and Palm Pre to emerge as the HTC device kept [...]

People sure do like getting something for nothing. Since Nokia made the big move to stop charging for its walk and drive navigation last week, 1.4 million of us have downloaded the Ovi Maps software — on average, that’s a download a second since launch. The response has been so good that it’s exceeded Nokia’s [...]

NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope has at last found buckyballs in space, as illustrated by this artist’s conception. (Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech) They are named for their resemblance to architect Buckminster Fuller’s geodesic domes, which have interlocking circles on the surface of a partial sphere. Buckyballs were thought to float around in space, but had escaped detection until [...]