The longest geological cycle identified is described as about 600 million years in "Megacycles", the proceedings of a geological conference, Edited by G Williams. However Prof S Afanasiev of Moscow has determined the cycle very accurately to be 586.24 million years using his Nanocycles Method. It so happens that cosmologists, Broadhurst, T.J., Ellis, R.S., Koo, D.C. & Szalay (Nature 343, p 726) have observed regular mega-walls of galaxies at spacings that they describe as 128 Mpc/h,...

When we see a galaxy and a quasar near each other in the sky, it might be because they are really near each other, or it might be that they are far apart and just along the same line of sight. Tests performed by Alan Stockton (Astrophysical Journal 223:747-757, "The Nature of QSO Redshifts", 1978) on a sample of such pairs have shown that some galaxy-quasar pairs have the same redshift and so are accepted as being at the same distance. Other pairs with very different redshifts however have...

Regularly spaced clouds appear in Jupiter's belts, sometimes white spots and sometimes swirling waves. A polar projection of Jupiter, made by NASA from the 2000 flyby, allows accurate testing of the hypothesis that these waves form as predicted by the Harmonics Theory. It is found that expected strong harmonics 12, 24 and 72 are present.

German vodcast about science communications. Diese Woche aus aktuellem Anlass über das deutsche "Jahr der Mathematik" . Interviews mit Prof. Günter M. Ziegler (Deutschen Mathematiker Vereinigung, DMV), Christoph Drösser (Die ZEIT) Dr. Herbert Münder (Wissenschaft im Dialog, WiD), Dr. Klaus Kinkel (Deutschen Telekom Stiftung) und Barbara Meier (Mathematikstudentin und "Germanys Next Topmodel"). Unser Fundstück der Woche: Der Auftritt des "Mathemagician" Arthur Benjamin bei den...

German vodcast about science communications. Diese Woche unter anderem über das Schülerprojekt Quantenphysik TV" ,eine Brodeur-Studie zur Nutzung von Blogs durch Journalisten, das Blog "Bad Astronomy" , den Erfolg von Podcasts und Vodcasts in den USA, eine Studie über die "conflict of interest"-Klausel , den Gerda Henkel Preis , Wikia Search , das kostenfreie Archiv von "focus", Dr. Quantum zum Doppelspaltexperiment, die DVD "Das geheimnisvolle Reich der Quanten" ( hier ein...

This is an animation to accurately depict results of Eric Stach's (Purdue University) research on the nucleation kinetics of Si nanowires. The visualization shows other scientists how the graph and equations drive the interaction.