На известном курорте обнаружены "врата в подземелье"

Античный религиозный комплекс, содержащий врата в подземный мир и сравнимый по важности с Дельфийским оракулом, обнаружен неподалёку от Иераполиса-Памуккале – объекта всемирного наследия ЮНЕСКО и известного курорта Турции.

В настоящее время Памуккале ежегодно посещают тысячи туристов, чтобы не только полюбоваться потрясающим видом ослепительно белых водоёмов-террас из травертина, но и принять ванны из термальных источников.

Телескоп XMM-Newton "поймал" черную дыру, пожирающую планету-гиганта

Группа астрономов под руководством Марека Николаюка из Белостокского университета обнаружила "проснувшуюся" черную дыру в центре далекой галактики NGC 4845, анализируя данные, собранные орбитальными обсерваториями XMM-Newton и Swift, а также японским рентгеновским монитором MAXI на борту МКС.

De-extinction: Is "Jurassic Park" a real possibility?

(CBS News) Twenty years ago, "Jurassic Park" seemed like pure science fiction. Scientists in the movie retrieved ancient DNA from bones, and the movie fantasized dinosaurs could be brought back to Earth.

Not only is "Jurassic Park" back in theaters next month in 3D, but it turns out some of the science fiction might be about to become reality.

Newly found pyramids reveal aspects of social equality in ancient Sudan

Three years of digging by French team at Sedeinga unearth 35 pyramids that emphasise contrast between ancient cultures of Sudan, Egypt.

Middle East Online. By Ian Timberlake – KHARTOUM.  

People power may have come to modern-day Egypt and not Sudan, but the unearthing of ancient pyramids in Egypt's southern neighbour shows that greater social equality existed there 2,000 years ago, a French archeologist says.

Kon-Tiki Sails Again

A new film recreates the epic voyage—and revives the controversy over its legendary leader, Thor Heyerdahl

The most harrowing scene in Kon-Tiki, the new Oscar-nominated Norwegian film about the greatest sea voyage of modern times, turns out to be a fish story. In the 2012 reconstruction of this 1947 adventure, six amateur Scandinavian sailors—five of whom are tall, slim and valiant—build a replica of an ancient pre-Incan raft, christen it Kon-Tiki and sail westward from Peru along the Humboldt Current for French Polynesia, more than 3,700 nautical miles away. In mid-passage, their pet macaw is blown overboard and gobbled up by a big bad shark. During the scene in ques- tion, one of the tall and slim and valiant is so enraged by the bird’s death that he thrusts his bare hands into the Pacific, hauls in the shark and guts it with a savagery that would have made Norman Bates envious.

Cosmic crash 2022: Space probes will smash into asteroid in nine years

By Miriam Kramer 

Cosmic crash 2022: American and European scientists are planning to crash a spacecraft into a nearby asteroid in 2022 to analyze the interior of the cosmic rock.

Scientists in Europe and the United States are moving forward with plans to intentionally smash a spacecraft into a huge nearby asteroid in 2022 to see inside the space rock.

Will NASA Announce Plans to Snag an Asteroid and Fly It to Earth?

By Adam Mann

When the Obama administration’s 2014 federal budget gets released in early April, it might include a curious item: a $100 million request for NASA to conduct a mission to capture an asteroid and bring it back to Earth.

This idea comes from an article published March 28 in Aviation Week and Space Technology, which reports on the space industry. The plan would identify a small asteroid, grab it with a robotic spacecraft, and tug it to the vicinity of our planet, perhaps somewhere near the moon. Such a mission was the subject of a two-day meeting of scientists and engineers at Caltech organized by the Keck Institute for Space Studies in 2011.

E. A. Wallis Budge - Legends of the Gods

THE welcome which has been accorded to the volumes of this Series, and the fact that some of them have passed into second and third editions, suggest that these little books have been found useful by beginners in Egyptology and others. Hitherto the object of them has been to supply information about the Religion, Magic, Language, and History of the ancient Egyptians, and to provide editions of the original texts from which such information was derived. 

There are, however, many branches of Egyptology which need treatment in a similar manner in this Series, and it has been suggested in many quarters that the time has now arrived when the publication of a series of groups of texts illustrating EGYPTIAN LITERATURE in general might well be begun. Seeing that nothing is known about the authors of Egyptian works, not even their names, it is impossible to write a History of Egyptian Literature in the ordinary sense of the word. The only thing to be done is to print the actual works in the best and most complete form possible, with translations, and then to put them in the hands of the reader and leave them to his judgment.

China to build two more Antarctic research stations by 2015

BEIJING, March 29 (Xinhua) -- China is planning to build two new research stations in Antarctica by 2015 and site inspections are already being conducted by an expedition team, the State Oceanic Administration (SOA) said Thursday.

A summer station that can be used from December to March will be set up between the existing Zhongshan and Kunlun Stations to provide replenishment and other logistical support, the SOA said.

Алферов: основная проблема науки в РФ - невостребованность результатов

"Основная проблема российской науки - не только в ее по-прежнему низком финансировании. Основная проблема - невостребованность обществом результатов научных исследований", - сказал Алферов.

С.-ПЕТЕРБУРГ, 28 мар — РИА Новости. Российская Академия наук (РАН) абсолютно необходима для развития страны, сказал в четверг на пресс-конференции Нобелевский лауреат академик Жорес Алферов.