New research on a 2,400 year old star table shows that the Ancient Egyptians kept close tabs on the Big Dipper, monitoring changes in the constellation’s orientation throughout the course of an entire year.
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Professor Sarah Symons, of McMaster University in Hamilton Canada, carried out the new research. She presented her results on Sunday [...]
Daniel Branton and his colleagues placed single-walled carbon nanotubes onto a silicon wafer, cooled it to about -163?°C and sprayed it with water, causing an 80-nanometre-thick layer of ice to form. Then the researchers used an electron beam to carve away two squares of ice, exposing the tops of some [...]
Here are a two programs that save the positions of desktop icons in Windows:
Desk Save — http://www.desksave.de/
Icon Restorer - http://fsl.sytes.net/iconrestorer.html
I also found the following articles helpful:
George Roettger, Saving the Desktop Layout in Win2K, NT Help (Apr. 8, 2001).
Amit Banerjee, How to Save and Restore Windows Desktop Icon Positions, Ampercent.
Amit Banerjee, Save Desktop Layout and Icon [...]
A team of Egyptian archaeologists has uncovered the remains of a 3,400-year-old wall on the Giza plateau that once protected the Sphinx from desert winds[.] … The two sections of mud-brick wall, which stretch for 132 meters (433 feet) in total, have been dated to the reign of Thutmose IV[.] … According to ancient Egyptian [...]
A team of scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has detected six isotopes, never seen before, of the superheavy elements 104 through 114. Starting with the creation of a new isotope of the yet-to-be-named element 114, the researchers observed successive emissions of alpha particles that [...]