"A Find: Leonardo's Studio "Researchers have discovered the hidden laboratory used by Leonardo da Vinci for studies of flight and other pioneering scientific work in previously sealed rooms at a monastery next to the Basilica of the Santissima Annunziata, in the heart of Florence."
- The Independent (UK) 01/12/05, via ArtsJournal; More from Google News ----
"Fierce mammal ate dinos for lunch -
An astonishing new fossil uncovered in a remote region of China has overturned accepted views of the relationship between dinosaurs and early mammals. "
- BBC News; Google News; en Francais a Le Monde I guess LoonieTunes wasn't as wrong as we thought. Cavemen didn't hunt dinos, but some mammals did! ----
"Using a 'radar-gun' technique, scientists have clocked three separate clumps of hot iron gas whipping around a black hole at 30,000 kilometres per second, about a tenth of the speed of light. The observation, made with ESA's XMM-Newton observatory, marks the first time scientists could trace individual blobs of shredded matter on a complete journey around a black hole."
"If placed in our Solar System, this black hole would appear like a dark abyss spread out nearly as wide as Mercury's orbit. And the three chunks (each as large as the Sun) would be as far out as Jupiter. They orbit the black hole in a lightning-quick 30 000 kilometres per second, over a tenth of the speed of light."
- ESA XMM Newtonrelease w/ press pix, via SpaceFlightNow ----
