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Deepest Underwater Cave
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Polish Explorer Says He's Found Deepest Underwater Cave A team of explorers say they have discovered the world's deepest underwater cave, 404 meters down, near the eastern Czech town of Hranice. Polish explorer Krzysztof Starnawski found the cave Tuesday in the flooded limestone Hranicka Propa...
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Mount Barujari
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An active volcano on Indonesia's Lombok island has spewed lava and hot ash nearly 1,200 metres into the sky but poses no immediate threat to local villagers. Surono, director of Indonesia's Volcanology Agency, said the Tuesday eruption followed four smaller eruptions on Friday. [url=http://ww...
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Cebreros
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On 9 June, a powerful new 35-metre antenna, presently undergoing acceptance testing at Cebreros, Spain, successfully picked up signals and tracked Rosetta and SMART-1.
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Armstrong Flight Research Center
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NASA Armstrong Celebrates 70 Years of Flight Research The National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics sent 13 engineers and support staff to California's Mojave Desert in September 1946 to assist in the quest for supersonic flight. The X-1 aircraft represented the first U.S. Air Force designat...
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In the first test of a new radar instrument, scientists have seen through more than a mile of Greenland ice to reveal an image of land that has been hidden for millions of years.
Ohio State University scientists and their colleagues will use what they learn from the instrument, dubbed GISMO (for Glo...
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Turrialba Volcano, 40 kilometres east of San José, spewed gas and vapour two kilometres into the sky yesterday morning, its first eruption since 1866. People living near the foot of the volcano described a thick white column wafting up from the crater - The Volcanological and Seismological Observ...
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Title: The Persian-Toledan Astronomical Connection and the European Renaissance Authors: M. Heydari-Malayeri (LERMA, Observatoire de Paris, France) This paper aims at presenting a brief overview of astronomical exchanges between the Eastern and Western parts of the Islamic world from the 8...
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With its big, hockey puck-sized eyes, shortened face and nubby horns, it was probably as cute as a button - at least to its mother, a three-horned dinosaur called Triceratops that could weigh as much as 10 tons and had one of the largest skulls of any land animal on the planet.
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A strong earthquake rattled Indonesia’s Sumatra island today, causing residents to flee to higher ground fearing a possible tsunami. There were no reports of casualties or damage caused by the 6.9 magnitude quake.
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Piton de la Fournaise Volcano
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Cumbrian lakes
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Cumbrian lakes hold a centuries-long flood record The UK Natural Environment Research Council has funded this investigation through its Urgency Programme, including the on-going investigations in the lakes of Buttermere, Bassenthwaite, Ullswater and Brotherswater, but already new insigh...
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Mount Mayon
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A minor explosion at Mayon, southeastern Luzon, Philippines on 21 February at 09:41 local time (17:41 GMT) produced an ash plume that rose to ~500 m above the volcano's 2,462 metre high crater and drifted SW. Ash was deposited on the upper slopes of the volcano. The ash emission was accompanied by a sm...
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North Korean nuclear test
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North Korea claims success in fifth nuclear test North Korea says it has successfully carried out its fifth nuclear test, in continued defiance of UN resolutions. A 5.3 magnitude tremor had earlier been detected near its nuclear test site. Read more
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A strong magnitude 6.1 earthquake occurred at 01:16:04 (UTC) on Tuesday, September 6, 2005, 50 km NorthEast of Hua-lien in the Taiwan region. The hypocentral depth was estimated to be 46 km.
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A volcano spewed ash and lava onto part of the ecologically delicate Galapagos Islands on Friday, threatening to kill vegetation and some animals on the island of Fernandina.
The islands, of the coast of Ecuador, are considered one of the most important natural preserves in the world.
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