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Opal citizen science project expands across the UK Open Air Laboratories (Opal), with a grant from the Big Lottery Fund, is now being rolled out across Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. Read more
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Snowdonia National Park
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Snowdonia park in 'dark sky' status bid for stargazer Parts of Snowdonia could be plunged into darkness in a bid to reduce light pollution in the national park. And the move could create a cash boost for area the with stargazers from across the globe flocking to North Wales to enjoy a clear view of the co...
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Cape Paterson Claw
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Australia's first dinosaur bone, the Cape Paterson Claw, a claw of a theropod, was discovered near to Eagles Nest, Bunurong Marine National Park, on the 7th May 1903 by William Hamilton Ferguson, a Victoria geologist who was searching for coal along the coast near the town of Inverloch. Read more
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Space Warps project
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Join the search for 'space warps' Online volunteers are being asked to search for 'space warps', very rare massive galaxies that bend light around them so that they act rather like giant lenses in space. By looking through data that has never been seen by human eyes, citizen scientists can help astro...
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Capitanian event
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New mass extinction event proposed by geologists Over the past 450 million years, life on Earth has been devastated by five mass extinction events that are widely recognised by geologists. Now, an international team of researchers proposes adding a sixth mass extinction to the list. The team beli...
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Alberta Sun Temple
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In a remote location west of Brooks, Alberta, scientist Gordon Freeman in 1980 discovered a Sun Temple that pre-dates Stonehenge. According to Freeman, it was constructed some 5000 years ago by the Oxbow People, and contains a solar calendar like ours, but slightly more accurate. He states that th...
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Mount Tambora
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An expedition to the site of one of the largest volcanic eruption in modern times has uncovered a lost kingdom.
More than 100,000 people died when Mount Tambora erupted on the Indonesian island of Sumbawa in 1815.
Remains of a house with two occupants buried under ash have been unearthed for th...
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Four Corners Methane
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Scientists Take Aim at Four Corners Methane Mystery Researchers from several institutions are in the Four Corners region of the U.S. Southwest with a suite of airborne and ground-based instruments, aiming to uncover reasons for a mysterious methane "hot spot" detected from space. Re...
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Deception Island
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Deception Island is a volcanic caldera, which formed a natural harbour when the caldera collapsed.
The harbour is called Port Foster.
The Island is in the South Shetland Islands, on the Bransfield Rift where the rift is offset by a short ridge-ridge transform fault .
700000 years ago, volcan...
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Lau event
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Title: The mid-Ludfordian Lau Event and Carbon Isotope Excursion (Ludlow, Silurian) in southern Laurentia Preliminary Results Author: James E. BARRICK, Mark A. KLEFFNER, Michael A. GIBSON, F. Nicole PEAVEY & Haraldur R. KARLSSON The mid-Ludfordian Lau Event can be recognised in three are...
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The Antonine Wall
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The Antonine Wall is a stone and turf fortification, built by the Romans across what is now the central belt of Scotland and is also known as the Clyde-Forth frontier line. Although most of the wall has been destroyed over time, sections of the wall can still be seen in Bearsden, Kirkintilloch, Twecha...
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The Soufriere Hills Volcano on Montserrat produced a faint but steady plume of ash on September 4-5, 2005.
The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) flying onboard the Aqua satellite took this picture on September 5th 2005.
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Kitt Peak National Observatory, Arizona, USA.
This view shows the University of Arizona's 2.3 metre Steward Observatory Telescope (left) and the Kitt Peak National Observatory's 4.0 metre Nicholas U. Mayall...
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Tetrapods, the first four-legged land animals, are regarded as the first organisms that had fingers and toes. Now researchers at Uppsala University can show that this is wrong. Using medical x-rays, they found rudiments of fingers in the fins in fossil Panderichthys, the transitional animal, wh...
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Phases of the moon
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Do you have a favourite phase of the moon? Romantics will almost certainly be drawn to the full moon, but during its 29.5-day cycle, going from one new moon to the next, our satellite offers up plenty of other choices. There's the precise semicircle of a first or last quarter moon. And maybe you've be...
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