BBC News - Physicists burst bubble mystery

BBC News - Physicists burst bubble mystery: "With the help of high speed video, scientists have discovered that there is far more to bursting bubbles than meets the eye.

Under the right conditions, a bursting bubble on a liquid surface does not simply vanish, but creates a perfect ring of tiny 'daughter bubbles'.

This occurs as the ruptured bubble retracts into the liquid, forming a doughnut shape of trapped air."

Russian math genius doesn't want $1 million Prize | RIA Novosti

Russian math genius ignores $1 million Millennium Prize | Science | RIA Novosti: "Russian reclusive math genius Grigory Perelman did not appear in Paris on Tuesday to collect his $1 million prize for solving a problem that has puzzled scientists for over a century.

In March 2010, the Clay Mathematics Institute (CMI) of Cambridge, Massachusetts, announced that Perelman, 43, would be awarded the prize for proving the Poincare conjecture, one of seven problems on the institute's Millennium Prize list."

BBC News - New robotic telescope in Chile set for planet hunt

BBC News - New robotic telescope in Chile set for planet hunt: "A new robotic telescope designed to study planets around other stars has taken its first image.

Although based in Chile, the Trappist telescope will be operated from a control room in Belgium, 12,000km away.

As well as detecting and characterising so-called exoplanets, Trappist will also study comets orbiting our Sun."