Science and Technology Blog

A recently discovered type of young galaxy has astronomers echoing David Bowman’s legendary last words in the Clarke’s novel 2001: A Space Odyssey: “My God, it’s full of stars“.

While these galaxies are small enough to fit within the central hub of our own Milky Way Galaxy, they each contain as many stars as bigger, older galaxies.

The light we see from the densely packed galaxies dates to a time when the universe was relatively young, less than three billion years old.

Previously observed tiny galaxies from this time period had correspondingly small numbers of stars.

Source: National Geographic

The unexpected eruption of Chilean volcano Chaitén started these days after 450 years of silence have been displaced more than 4,000 peoples in the area.

The image above cached at night shows the massive eruption covered by a huge thunderstorm.

More images on: terra.cl

Image: UPI

This flat panel LCD monitor from Fujitsu Siemens have a revolutionary technology built-in which reduce power consumption to zero when the monitor goes on stand by.

The monitor contains a relay switch that cut the power when is not video signal from PC and switch on when the video signal comes on.

With millions of computer monitors laying on every day on offices around the world such as technology may save a lot of energy.

The issue came from another Microsoft product named Dynamics Retail Management System which is not compatible yet with XP SP3 and Vista SP1.

Microsoft has sopped on April 29 the updates for XP SP3 but the updates for Vista SP1 are still available.

Samsung will launch soon on European market a new mobile phone SGH-P960 slider with DVB-H TV and 2.6-inch DNIe 262k color display.

Interesting and new features for a mobile phone with TV receiver are picture-in-picture viewing and time-shifting which give users the option to pause TV programming and answer the phone call and resume the program when the call ends.

Other features are music player, FM radio with RDS, 3MP video camera with LED flash, Bluetooth and 3G, and 90MB internal storage with microSD cards extension.