The Internet Society is a non-profit organization founded in 1992 with the aim of ensuring an open Internet development, evolution and use for the benefit of all peoples of the world. To mark its twentieth anniversary, the Internet Society has launched the Internet Hall of Fame, an annual prize to give public recognition to people who made a significant contribution to the development of the Internet.
Fluxes of neutrinos should be produced along with cosmic rays by the interaction of protons and photons, therefore astrophysicists Nathan Whitehorn and Pete Redl tried to detect tehm with the IceCube Neutrino Observatory with (or simply IceCube). However, the detection of neutrinos that should be associated with cosmic rays coming from from three hundred gamma ray bursts observed gave negative results.
Yesterday, the Space Shuttle Discovery, after arriving in Washington last Tuesday, was officially handed over to the Smithsonian Institute with a solemn ceremony. Soon it will be on display at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center of the Institute’s National Air and Space Museum. During the ceremony, the Space Shuttle Orbiter Discovery appeared next to the Space Shuttle Orbiter Enterprise, a prototype built for atmosphere tests that for some time was exhibited the Smithsonian Institute.
