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Kerdruelland standing stones
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About 60 standing stones, some of them nearly 2 metres tall, have been unearthed in Kerdruelland, near Belz (Morbihan, Brittany), a few kilometres from Carnac. The standing stones are lying on the ground and they date to the Early Neolithic, or about 5000 BCE. The newly found stones are of great inte...
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Typhoon Ewiniar
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Typhoon Ewiniar formed in the western Pacific on June 29, 2006, a hundred miles south of the Yap Islands in the Federated States of Micronesia. The tropical depression gathered power and size as it travelled in a northerly direction , passing almost directly over the Yap Islands
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China Tests Engine
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China has successfully tested a new 120 ton-grade rocket engine with liquid oxygen/kerosene propellants for 600 seconds, at the Ballistic Missile Technology Institute, located about 48 kilometres southwest of Beijing
The new rocket engine, with a 60 percent higher efficiency than curren...
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Nerpa Nuclear Submarine
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A nuclear-powered submarine that will reportedly be leased to India was launched at a shipyard in the Russian Far East, a news agency report said.
The Nerpa nuclear submarine was launched at the Amur shipyard and will join Russia's Pacific Fleet in 2007 after undergoing sea trials, the RIA Novo...
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MERMAID
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A team of seismologists led by University Collage London’s Dr Frederik Simons (UCL Earth Sciences) and including scientists from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography and Princeton University, has invented a submersible device that can detect earthquake waves in previously uncharted geog...
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Empedocles volcano
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An underwater volcano has been discovered just off the shores of Sicily.
The volcanic structure, which incorporates peaks previously thought to be separate volcanoes, was named Empedocles after the Greek philosopher who named the four classic elements of earth, air, fire and water.
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Balgarthno Stone Circle
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A prehistoric stone circle in Dundee which has been repeatedly targeted by vandals has been fenced off to protect it from further attacks.
Graffiti has been sprayed on the Balgarthno stone circle in Charleston and surrounding grass set on fire on several occasions.
Dundee City Council has now...
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Musudan-ri test facility
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North Korean Orbital Launch Site.
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Satellite imagery of the Assembly Building at the Musudan-ri Missile Test Facility.
Latitude: 40°51' 17 N. (40.855809) Longitude: 129°39' 58 E. (129.659357)
A coastal missile test site used for launch of long...
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Deepest Dinosaur
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The Norwegians have found Norway's first dinosaur using a oil exploration drill in the North Sea, at 2256 metres below the seabed. It had been there for nearly 200 million years, ever since the time the North Sea was an enormous alluvial plane.
It is merely a coincidence that the remains of the old...
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Tropical Storm Alberto
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The first Tropical Storm that may become a hurricane this season has formed.
Tropical Storm Alberto is heading towards the Florida panhandle.
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Applecross Quake
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The coastal village of Applecross was rocked yesterday afternoon by an earthquake which was felt across a wide area of remote Wester Ross in the north-west Scottish Highlands.
The lunchtime tremor measured 3.1 on the Richter Scale.
It was felt in communities at least 25 miles away and was the...
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German Micro Sauropods
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A new species of mini-dinosaur has been unearthed in a quarry at Oker, Germany.
The creature was of the sauropod type - that group of long-necked, four-footed herbivores that were the largest of all the dinosaurs.
But at just 1.7 to 6.2metres in length, this animal was considerably smaller than...
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Vilhonneur Cave
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An ancient cave discovered in December in western France contains a rare find: a 27,000-year-old human skeleton in a painted room and a drawing of a human face.
It was only the second time that a human body from the upper Palaeolithic period had been found placed in a cave with decorations.
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Ocean vortex
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Ocean vortex 'death trap' discovered
A massive ocean vortex discovered off the West Australian coast is acting as a "death trap" by sucking in huge amounts of fish larvae and could affect the surrounding climate.
A team of scientists from The University of Western Australia Murdo...
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Prehistoric Israeli Ecosystem
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Israeli scientists said on Wednesday they had discovered a prehistoric ecosystem dating back millions of years.
The discovery was made in a cave near the central Israeli city of Ramle during rock drilling at a quarry. Scientists were called in and soon found eight previously unknown s...
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