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Naica's crystal caves hold long-dormant life Scientists have extracted long-dormant microbes from inside the famous giant crystals of the Naica mountain caves in Mexico - and revived them. The organisms were likely encased in the striking shafts of gypsum at least 10,000 years ago, and possibly...
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Chatham Rise
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The Chatham Rise is an area of ocean floor to the east of New Zealand, forming part of the Zealandia continent. It stretches for some 1,000 kilometres from near the South Island in the west, to the Chatham Islands in the east. Read more
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Title: NU-SETI: A Proposal to Detect Extra-Terrestrial Signals Carried by Neutrinos Author: Ephraim Fischbach, John T. Gruenwald Recent observations of changes in radioactive decay rates associated with the annual variation of the Earth-Sun distance, with solar rotation, and particularly...
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International Ocean Discovery Program
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Chinese scientists join IODP expedition to South China Sea Dozens of scientists from different countries are set to start an expedition to the South China Sea, to explore the formation of the sea as part of the International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP). In the first of two expeditions, 33 scient...
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Michoud Assembly Facility
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Tornado Recovery Underway at NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility Recovery efforts are underway at NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans, which was impacted by a tornado at 11:25 a.m. CST Tuesday. All 3,500 employees at the facility have been accounted for, with five sustaining minor inju...
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Joint Russian and German bottom survey of World ocean's southern part near the Drake Passage resulted in discovery of the previously unknown vast underwater plateau Pirie.
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An astronaut, several geologists, and others are getting ready to troll for solar system rock samples. But they won't leave Earth to do it. Instead, they'll scan the ice fields of Antarctica for meteorites.
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Mountain Baekdu
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Mountain Baekdu, a dormant volcano on the border between North Korea and China, is showing signs of a possible eruption in the near future, experts warned Tuesday. According to historical records, Baekdu was an active volcano. Major activity in the 1960s created a caldera on its peak, whose circum...
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A major magnitude 7.3 earthquake occurred at 07:26:44 (UTC) on Friday, September 9, 2005 located in the New Ireland Region, Papua New Guinea. The hypocentral depth was estimated to be 96 km. The quake occurred 40 km EastSouthEast of Taron, and 140 km south east of Rabaul.
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A strong magnitude 6.0 earthquake occurred at 21:34:59 (UTC) on Saturday, June 2, 2007, in the Yunnan region, China, about 120 km north of Yunjinghong, Yunnan, China, at a depth of 10 km. Location 23.031°N, 101.023°E
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Ashmolean Museum
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[url=http://www.ox.ac.uk/media/news_stories/2009/091202.html]Read
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A gliding mammal that lives in the forests of south-east Asia is our closest relative after apes, monkeys and lemurs, a DNA study shows. Colugos are the "sisters" of primates, sharing a common ancestor some 80 million years ago when dinosaurs had their heyday, say US scientists. Until no...
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Palace of Nestor
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This 3,500-Year-Old Greek Tomb Upended What We Thought We Knew About the Roots of Western Civilization They had been digging for days, shaded from the Greek sun by a square of green tarpaulin slung between olive trees. The archaeologists used picks to break the cream-colored clay, baked as hard as r...
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Update from SpaceX
Between the Falcon 1 return to flight, Falcon 9 development and the NASA COTS program, has been an inordinately busy period for SpaceX.
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Outer space is emerging as a possible theatre of operations for China's armed forces, an analysis published in the mass-circulation People's Daily said on Wednesday.
The analysis, from a group of unidentified researchers at the National Defence University, listed space as an area where the...
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