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North Pole-1
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The first scientific drifting ice station in the world, North Pole-1 was established on May 21, 1937 some 20 km from the North Pole by the expedition into the high latitudes Sever-1, led by Otto Schmidt. "NP-1" operated for 9 months, during which the ice floe passed 2,850 kilometres. Read...
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Thumba Equatorial Rocket Launching Station
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The Thumba Equatorial Rocket Launching Station (TERLS) is an Indian spaceport, operated by the Indian Space Research Organization. It is located in Thumba, Thiruvananthapuram which is near the southern tip of India, very close to earth's magnetic equator. It currently used by ISRO for launchin...
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Einstein Telescope
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Cardiff researchers are helping to design a revolutionary Einstein Telescope that aims to see right back in time as far back as the Big Bang. They believe the telescope would make it possible to measure distance and time between cosmic forces such as black holes, far more accurately than ever before...
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Canadian Meteor Orbit Radar
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The Canadian Meteor Orbit Radar (CMOR) Researchers at the University of Western Ontario are doing their part to keep the crew aboard the space shuttle Endeavour safe on its final voyage Monday. After entering orbit, NASA astronauts travelling to the International Space Station will rely on data f...
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Sputnik IV Satellite
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It took the television game show "Millionaire," a radio commentary and printed column by Manitowoc Mayor Kevin Crawford, and a suggestion by Kim Geimer, owner of Persimmons Art Gallery, to bring back the idea of a special festival here to commemorate the day fragments of the Russian spa...
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Taal Volcano
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Taal Volcano has no impending danger of erupting any time soon, the government volcanologists reported. Read more
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Reptiles
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Reptiles stood upright after mass extinction Reptiles changed their walking posture from sprawling to upright immediately after the end-Permian mass extinction, the biggest crisis in the history of life that occurred some 250 million years ago and wiped out 90% of all species. In a detailed stud...
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Museum of Somerset
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Insect fossil discovery at Museum of Somerset More than 2,000 insect fossils dating to the Jurassic period have been found at the Museum of Somerset after being forgotten for more than 90 years. Geologist Charles Moore excavated them in the 1800s, but they were put in storage in 1915 and forgotten a...
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A strong magnitude 6.7 earthquake occurred at 11:34:52 (UTC) on Sunday, January 8, 2006, in Southern Greece, about 95 km NNW of Chania, Crete.
The hypocentral depth was estimated to be 37.7 km.
Location 36.250°N, 23.498°E
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Yaqut-Tappeh
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Road construction and railroad development are threatening the 6000-year-old Yaqut-Tappeh mound near Behshahr in Iran’s northern province of Mazandaran, the Persian service of CHN reported on Sunday.
A team of archaeologists recently began excavations at Yaqut-Tappeh to save artifact...
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Berthold Seliger
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The Berthold Seliger Forschungs- und Entwicklungsgesellschaft mbH (BSFEGmbH) was a company founded by German rocket technical designer Berthold Seliger in 1961. The first rocket developed by the BSFEGmbH was an improved version of the Kumulus, which was first launched on November 19, 1962 and...
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Thornborough Henges
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Three months after quarry firm Tarmac was refused planning permission to expand its operations near Thornborough Henges, north of Ripon (North Yorkshire, England), the company has formally lodged an appeal against the decision. The move comes as no big surprise, as Tarmac had indicated...
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Kronotsky national reserve
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Teams of scientists have been sent to the Valley of Geysers, on the Kamchatka Peninsula in the far east of Russia, to report on the condition of the World Heritage site after a massive landslide in the Kronotsky national reserve. The slide, which lasted only seconds on 3 June, loosed an estimated 4.5 m...
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Atomic power stations
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Seen as an alternative energy source, how safe are the country's atomic power stations from nature's threats? Concerned over the safety hazards at a nuclear plant in Rajasthan, an amateur astronomer Manoj Pai moved the Central Information Commission inquiring on precautionary measures taken b...
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Laika
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Russian astronomers suggest celebrating 50th anniversary of Earths first artificial satellite carrying the dog called Laika to the stars by setting a bronze monument to the brave dog. Read more [url=http://nkj.ru/news/10585/]Sou...
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