Dr Stanislav P. Abadjiev
PROFILE

Born 16 March 1964, Kyustendil. Entomologist, web programmer, journalist. Associate Professor, Dr (1999). Interests: astronomy; dinosaurs; taxonomy of Neotropical Pierinae, butterflies of the Balkan Peninsula. Expeditions: Karelia Coast, north of the Arctic Circle, Russia (1991); Albania (1994, 1995); Turkey, from Anatolia and the Taurus system to the Pontic Mountains (1996).

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Scientists using NASA's Hubble telescope have taken the first visible-light snapshot of a planet orbiting another star. The planet, named Fomalhaut b, orbits its sun, Fomalhaut. A structure comprised mostly of brown and gold colours surrounds Fomalhaut b. This structure is a Saturn-like ring that astronomers say may encircle the planet. Fomalhaut also is surrounded by a ring of material. The edge of this vast disk is shown in the background as the curving cloud-like feature that appears to intersect the 200-million-year-old star. Fomalhaut b lies 1.8 billion miles inside the disk's inner edge. The planet completes an orbit around Fomalhaut every 872 years, (c) ESA, NASA, and L. Calcada (ESO for STScI)Fomalhaut b: The first directly observed exoplanet

— 13 Nov 2008 19:30 | Astronomy
Scientists using NASA's Hubble telescope have taken the first visible-light snapshot of a planet orbiting another star. The…

Epidexipteryx, a new feathered maniraptoran dinosaur from the Jurassic of China, is a primitive, flightless member of the avialan clade. The elongate ribbon-like tail feathers were almost certainly for display, (c) Zhao Chuang and Xing LidaNew bizarre feathered dinosaur discovered in China

— 22 Oct 2008 17:00 | Geology and palaeontology
A new stage in the early history of birds is published in the most recent issue of the journal Nature (online 22 October).…

Author with a King Cobra Ophiophagus hannah, the largest venomous snake in the world (can reach 6 metres in length). She was protecting her nest - King Cobras are the only species of snake that actively protect their nests from predators, (c) Freek VonkStudy offers new evidence of how snake fangs evolved from regular teeth

— 30 Jul 2008 17:00 | Biology
A study published in the most recent issue of Nature offers new evidence for how snake fangs evolved from regular teeth.…

Adding a polarising filter conceals the clouds, revealing true colour of accretion disk, (c) M. Kishimoto, M. SchartmannQuasars' accretion disks reveal their true colours

— 23 Jul 2008 17:00 | Astronomy
Quasars are the brilliant cores of remote galaxies, thought to be powered by supermassive black holes accreting surrounding…

Webs of carbon nanotubes provide high performance semiconductor material for flexible electronics. Integrated circuits as shown here could be used in personal health monitors, flexible displays, and other areas, (c) Beckman Institute, University of IllinoisLightweight, flexible electronic networks of carbon nanotubes

— 23 Jul 2008 17:00 | Technology
The ability to form integrated circuits on flexible sheets of plastic enables attributes in electronic devices that are difficult…

With the skull shape of an early tetrapod, but proportions like a fish, an exceptionally well-preserved braincase fossil of the species Ventastega curonica from the Late Devonian of Latvia is described in the today's issue of Nature, (c) Philip Renne and Per AhlbergFrom fish to tetrapod

— 25 Jun 2008 17:00 | Geology and palaeontology
With the skull shape of an early tetrapod, but proportions like a fish, an exceptionally well-preserved braincase fossil…