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Ancient tooth found in French cave A human tooth dating to around 565,000 years ago has been found by a 16-year-old volunteer in France. The tooth was found at Arago cave near the village of Tautavel, one of the world's most important prehistoric sites; it has been under excavation for about 50 years....
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Dunnicaer sea stack
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'Significant' Pictish fort found off Aberdeenshire coast Archaeologists have uncovered a "very significant" Pictish fort after scaling a remote sea stack off the coast of Aberdeenshire. The team from the University of Aberdeen believe the ancient remains could be one of many along t...
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The US Midwest’s immense earthworks, structures built by ancient Native American cultures, have been all but lost to plough and pavement. No longer. An ambitious effort by the University of Cincinnati has rebuilt the mounds of two millennia ago. These virtual earthworks will soon be set to travel...
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A strong magnitude 6.4 earthquake occurred at 12:05:21 (UTC) on Sunday, August 12, 2007, in the Santa Cruz Islands region, 453 km North from Santo (Luganville), Vanuatu, at a depth of 48 km. Location 11.530°S, 166.340°E
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Homo erectus
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Discovery of the most intact female pelvis of Homo erectus may cause scientists to re-evaluate how early humans evolved to successfully birth larger-brained babies. A reconstruction of the 1.2 million-year-old pelvis discovered in 2001 in the Gona Study Area at Afar, Ethiopia, that has led rese...
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The NASA Wallops Flight Facility, Wallops Island, Va., has been selected by the Space and Missile Systems Centre's Detachment 12 as the launch site for the Air Force Research Laboratory's TacSat 2 satellite. The launch is scheduled for November 2006.
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Northern Lights
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The Northern Lights (almost) guaranteed It might be -35C, but your best chance is on an arctic research station in Canada, says Martin Symington Read more
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Mount Asama
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Japan's Mt. Asama, in Tsumagoi, about 140 km northwest of Tokyo, erupted early Monday from its summit crater. The volcano spewed hot rocks and sent ash showers as far as Tokyo and its vicinity in the southern Kanto region, Japan. There was no major damage in the sparsely populated vicinity [url=htt...
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The David Dunlap Observatory (DDO) is a large astronomical observatory site for the University of Toronto, located just north of the city in Richmond Hill, Ontario. Its primary instrument is a 74 inch (1.88 m) reflector telescope, at one time the second largest telescope in the world, and still the...
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Sydney Observatory
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It may have been the first major construction project to be cancelled by a NSW government. In 1801, 13 years after the First Fleet's arrival, fears for the security of the infant colony were rising. So in 1804 work began on Fort Phillip. To stand on what was then Windmill Hill, the township's highest po...
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An El Niño event has begun in the tropical Pacific.
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The University of Arizona's Steward Observatory Mirror Lab is pre-firing its huge spinning furnace and inspecting tons of glass for casting a first 8.4-meter diameter mirror for the Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT). The casting is scheduled for Saturday, July 23.
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Radio SETI
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Title: A Radio SETI Campaign for microsec-sec Periodic Signals Author: G. R. Harp, R. F. Ackermann, Alfredo Astorga, Jack Arbunich, Kristin Hightower, Seth Meitzner, W. C. Barott, Michael C. Nolan, D. G. Messerschmitt, Douglas A. Vakoch, Seth Shostak, J. C. Tarter We report a novel radio autocor...
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Biosphere
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Roughly a billion years from now, the ever-increasing radiation from the sun will have heated Earth into inhabitability; the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere that serves as food for plant life will disappear, pulled out by the weathering of rocks; the oceans will evaporate; and all living things w...
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A major magnitude 6.8 earthquake occurred at 02:46:30 (UTC) on Tuesday, August 16, 2005, near the East coast of Honshu, Japan.
Location 38.400°N, 141.800°E
It occurred at a Depth of 55 km, 82 km East Northeast from Sendai, Honshu, Japan.
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