Science Facts

Astronauts, film makers and celebrities joined software savants, engineers and gamers in the heart of Silicon Valley this week for a first-ever NVision conference devoted to computer imagery advances changing the way people and machines interact.

When, in October 1957, the USSR launched the first man-made earth satellite, the basketball-sized Sputnik, it caught the United States off guard and sent the government into fits. Not only had the Soviets exploded an atomic bomb years before the Americans

Astronomers say fresh imagery of a powerful collision of galaxy clusters supports the idea that dark matter is something totally separate from ordinary matter.

A small British company developing a unique form of hovering aircraft says it will soon demonstrate a new and much more serious version of its technology.

Primarily designed for use in space, it crams a working PC with USB ports, card readers, audio outputs and proprietary interfaces into a tiny cube chassis measuring just two inches square. There are some great photos of the device.

Worm infects International Space Station laptops.

NASA researchers yesterday released images collected by a new telescope studying high-energy gamma rays. A combined image from 95 hours of the telescope's initial observations showed bursts of gamma rays glowing across the plane of the Milky Way.

It is quite obvious just how symbolic the stupa is to Buddhism. Although there is much more that can be said about them, this gives a picture as to how a monument can hold not only aesthetic beauty, but also spiritual symbolism.

Theology has always provided us with large-scale hope as we contemplate the physical end of everything we know. There is nothing more fascinating than this interplay of the hard sciences and a theological vision of the future.