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Indonesia has prepared to evacuate thousands of villagers after Mount Merapi a volcano in the heart of densely populated Java Island started spewing thick clouds of smoke and hot lava.
The 2911-meter high Mount Merapi overlooks the ancient city of Jogjakarta, the capital of Central J...
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Robots are set to probe the narrow shafts of the Great Pyramid to try to solve one of the mysteries of the 4 500-year-old structure.
This week, Zahi Hawass, an Egyptologist, will inspect a robot designed to climb the two narrow shafts which might lead to an undiscovered chamber in the pyramid of [b...
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Telica volcano
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Nicaragua's 1,090-meter high Telica volcano has produced a series of explosions that sent a plume gas and dust 500 metres above the crater.
"The volcano has seen explosions and abundant gas and ash emissions since three in...
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A 7.9 magnitude earthquake shook the northern part of Chile today.
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Valentina Tereshkova
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Forty-Two years ago today, history was made when Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova, a Russian textile worker became the first woman in space.
Valentina Tereshkova was born to a peasant famil...
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Australian Volcanoes
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There are only two active volcanoes on Australian territory: "Big Ben" on Heard Island in the depths of the Southern Ocean, and Mawson Peak on nearby McDonald Island, whose eruptions doubled the island's size in the final two decades of the last century. In the past 40,000 years there had...
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Palaeontologists in northern Greece have unearthed the intact skull of a prehistoric primate that lived at least five million years ago, a member of the research team has said.
"The skull still carries the bite marks of a large carnivore, it ranks among the best preserved ever found. It give...
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Cielo de salamanca
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There are no contracts proving that the mural project The Sky of Salamanca is definitively Fernando Gallego's. However, there is documentation from the rector Rodrigo Alvarez, requesting Fernando Gallego be hired to paint the library, since he had already worked for the cathedral on the Virgin o...
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Predators
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Predators such as leopards and chimpanzees consistently target smaller-brained prey less capable of escape; research at the University of Liverpool has shown.
They avoid more intelligent prey such as monkeys which have exceptionally large brains and are more capable of escaping attacks.
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Amborella trichopodais
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A new University of Colorado at Boulder study involving a "living fossil plant" that has survived on Earth for 130 million years suggests its novel reproductive structure may be a "missing link" between flowering plants and their ancestors.
The Amborella plant, found in the rain forests of Ne...
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Iceage melt
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The sudden deep freeze of the northern hemisphere that occurred 13,000 years ago has been traced to events originating in northern Canada, according to University of Toronto research. The findings could shed light on the future of climate change due to greenhouse gases.
The study, published...
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Nagasaki
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The mayor of Nagasaki, Itcho Ito, marked the 61st anniversary of its atomic bombing.
Elderly survivors, children and dignitaries bowed their heads at the city's Peace Park near "ground zero" for a moment of silence at 11:02 a.m. -- the moment when a U.S. bomber dropped the world's second atomic...
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Hiroshima
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Today, 60 years ago, the atomic bomb named "Little Boy" was dropped on Hiroshima by the Enola Gay, a Boeing B-29 bomber, at 8:15 in the morning of August 6, 1945.
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Manam Volcano
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The 10-km-wide island of Manam is a 1807 metre high basaltic stratovolcano 12 km north of Papua New Guinea.
Latitude: 4.10°S Longitude: 145.061°E
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Manam Volcano continued to emit a volcanic plume of ash and steam on May 25, 2006.
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Ubinas Volcano
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Officials urged a small farming town in southern Peru to evacuate on Tuesday after a volcano sent smoke and ash 792 metres into the air, but residents were reluctant to leave.
"A yellow alert has been called, which means precaution due to emission of gases and steam. Civil Defence has sent sma...
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