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On six continents, wind energy is struggling to compete with fossil fuels. But in Antarctica, wind is carving out a big role. Australia has been operating wind turbines at its research station, Mawson, since 2003. And Belgium has a new research station, Princess Elisabeth, that it says will be the f...
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Rampur planetarium
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Rampur planetarium to be named after Aryabhatta After changing the names of several districts and some of the projects of Mayawati government, the state government changed the name of a proposed planetarium in Rampur. Proposed to be named after Bhimrao Ambedkar during Mayawati regime, the plane...
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Homo antecessor
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Early Cannibalism Tied to Territorial Defence? The earliest known instance of cannibalism among hominids occurred roughly 800,000 years ago. The victims, mainly children, may have been eaten as part of a strategy to defend territories against neighbours, researchers report online in the Jour...
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Excalibur Almaz
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Excalibur Almaz is a private spaceflight company which plans to provide orbital space tourism, and provide test beds for experiments in a microgravity environment. Read more
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Mallon Planetarium
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Methacton School District Gets New Telescope The Methacton School Board voted to approve a $1,000 donation from the Education Foundation for the Methacton Community (EFMC) on Sept. 18. The donation was earmarked for the purchase of a new telescope that would enhance the district's Mallon Planet...
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Moscow Planetarium
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Moscow Planetarium is under threat. The late 1920s were a time of optimism about science and space travel. Two architects, Mikhail Barshch and Mikhail Sinyavsky captured the spirit of the era with their futuristic silver-domed design for the new Moscow Planetarium. On Nov. 5, 1929, the two archit...
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Balloon of Peace
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Joseph Kittinger completed the first solo Atlantic crossing in the 3,000 m³ Balloon of Peace from September 14 to September 18, 1984. As an official FAI world aerospace record, it is (as of December 2008) the longest gas balloon distance flight in AA-10 size category (5,703.03 km) Read more
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Shanghai Astronomical Observatory
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Shanghai Astronomical Observatory Selects Acumem ThreadSpotter Acumem, a provider of intelligent software for single- and multicore environments, and China HPC Technology Co., Ltd. (CHPC), a professional HPC application solutions and services provider, today announced that the Shanghai...
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Grotte de Lascaux
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A cave painting in the Lascaux Grotto in France dating back to the lower palaeolithic period - some 200,000 years ago, shows a figure that appears to be pinching his nostrils shut and pointing to a dog-like creature drawn without a nose.
This may depict the oldest joke in the world.
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Federal space program
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The Russian orbital space group will have more than 70 spacecraft by 2015 under to a draft federal space program for 2006-2015, an official from the Federal Space Agency said.
According to the official, there are currently 33 spacecraft in the orbital group.
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UA Steward Observatory
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The 21-inch optical telescope used by University of Arizona undergraduates for research and by the public for viewing stars and planets will be renamed this month to honour the late Raymond E. White, Jr. The telescope is housed in the historic 1922 Campus Station dome on the west side of Steward Obse...
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Satish Dhawan Space Centre
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Latitude: 13.78288, Longitude: 80.25191
* Main launch centre of ISRO, 100 km north of Chennai.
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Lowell Observatory and Discovery Communications Reach Milestone in Construction of the Discovery Channel Telescope.
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Volcanoes may have a stronger cooling effect on the Earth than previously thought, an Open University team says.
In Geophysical Research Letters, the UK scientists say large eruptions can kick off a contest between different types of bacteria in peat bogs and wetlands.
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Great Zimbabwe
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AT the ancient complex, 27km south of Masvingo City, eagles majestically soar over the northern granite outcrops forcing skunks and lizards to dart in and out of cracks, crevices and crannies in the ancient stone walls. Dragon flies hover over the greyish rocks while an assortment of melodiously s...
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