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Tara Oceans Polar Circle 2013
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Arctique, une expédition scientifique pour en faire le tour The polar schooner Tara leave Lorient 19 May 2013 for a new expedition Tara Oceans Polar Circle. A scientific adventure seven months around the 25000 kms Arctic Ocean which incloude the Northeast and Northwest passages. Supported by the...
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A strong magnitude 6.1 earthquake occurred at 10:06:15 (UTC) on Saturday, October 15, 2005, East of the Kuril Islands, about 450 km SSW of Severo-Kuril'sk, Kuril Islands, Russia.
The hypocentral depth was estimated to be 30 km.
Location 46.879 °N, 154.105 °E
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Australopithecus sediba
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Australopithecus sediba May Have Paved the Way for Homo Researchers have revealed new details about the brain, pelvis, hands, and feet of Australopithecus sediba, a primitive hominin that existed around the same time early Homo species first began to appear on Earth. The new Au. sediba findings,...
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LEDs
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Title: LEDs: The Future of Street Lighting and their Effect on Astronomy Authors: Britny N. Delp and Stephen M. Pompea The project goal was to determine the most useful and dark-skies friendly LED lighting. Using a Czerny-Turner spectrometer, 45 different types of outdoor lights were categorise...
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The Pleistocene
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Fifth-grader Xu Ruinong of Yuren Elementary in Taizhong was on a natural science museum field trip this past July in Tainan County near Cailiao Creek when he discovered a sparkling stone. Who could have imagined that the stone was none other than a 400,000-year-old tooth from a Taiwan tiger? The boy...
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Sumatra Quake
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A strong magnitude 6.0 earthquake occurred at 15:13:20 UTC on Saturday, July 30, 2005, located in Northern Sumatra, Indonesia, 100 km WSW of Banda Aceh.
It occurred at a depth of 41.7 km.
Location 5.212°N, 94.493°E
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Nazca Lines
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A new giant picture on the Nazca Plateau in Peru, which is famous for giant patterns that can be seen from the air, has been discovered by a team of Japanese researchers. The image is 65 meters long, and appears to be an animal with horns. It is thought to have been drawn as a symbol of hopes for good crops, b...
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Brownsville launch site
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Wildlife officials yet to estimate impact of Valley launch site As Space Exploration Technologies, or SpaceX, prepares for its launch of a cargo ship at Cape Canaveral in Florida later this month, local wildlife experts here are evaluating the companys proposal to build a launch site in Brownsvi...
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Fossil Colour
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Scientists have shown it is possible to predict the colour of animals that are extinct.
Prof. Andrew Parker, scientist at the Natural History Museum, UK, discovered that iridescent colours in animals result from tiny structures that show up under the microscope and these can be seen even in fo...
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Cherenkov Telescope Array
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India plans to offer an astronomical site at Hanle in Leh for an international collaboration which is exploring the possibility of setting up two large gamma-ray telescope arrays in the Northern and Southern hemispheres, a senior astronomer said. The international collaboration is planning Ch...
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The Sea Launch Commander - Assembly and Command Ship is the floating rocket assembly factory and provides accommodations for up to 240 crew members, customers and VIPs—including medical facilities, dining room, recreation and entertainment facilities. It also houses mission control...
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Russian scientists have said they will resume drilling into Lake Vostok in the Antarctic, to within 100m of the waters that sit below its ice-cap.
Lake Vostok's waters may hold many new species as it is an ecos...
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Sunstones
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Did Vikings navigate by polarised light? A Viking legend tells of a glowing 'sunstone' that, when held up to the sky, revealed the position of the Sun even on a cloudy day. It sounds like magic, but scientists measuring the properties of light in the sky say that polarising crystals - which function in...
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Between 1727 and 1734 Maharajah Jai Singh II of Jaipur constructed an astronomical observatory, in Jairpur, the capital of the federal state Rhajasthan in west central India. The observatory, or "Jantar Mantars" as they are commonly known, incorporate multiple buildings of unique form...
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In little over two months, famed Egyptologist Dr Zahi Hawass hopes to unearth the discovery of his lifetime: the tomb of one of history's greatest women, Cleopatra.
Hawass suspects Cleopatra is buried with her Roman lover Mark Antony at a temple 30km from Alexandra called Tabusiris Magna.
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