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Dr Piers Sellers
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A British-born astronaut is training at the Johnson Space Centre in Houston, Texas, US, for a "return to flight" space shuttle mission to the International Space Station in September.
Dr Piers Sellers, who born in Crowborough, East Sussex, and went to Cranbrook School, Kent, had his debut fligh...
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A strong magnitude 6.1 earthquake occurred at 18:23:26 (UTC) on Thursday, September 29, 2005 in the New Britian Region, Papua New Guinea, 155 km SSW of Rabaul, at a Depth of 35 km.
Location 5.596°S, 151.846°E
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Mexicos so-called "Fire Volcano" erupted today spewing lava and glowing rocks in its biggest explosion since 1999.
A huge grey column of smoke billowed into the evening air from a crater of the 3860m volcano in the western state of Colima, according to television images.
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Geothermal energy
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When tremors started cracking walls and bathroom tiles in this Swiss city on the Rhine, the engineers knew they had a problem. "The glass vases on the shelf rattled, and there was a loud bang. I thought a truck had crashed into the building" - Catherine Wueest, a teashop owner, recalls. Bu...
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Dome A
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Title: The sky brightness and transparency in i-band at Dome A, AntarcticaAuthors: Hu Zou, Xu Zhou, Zhaoji Jiang, M.C.B. Ashley, Xiangqun Cui, Longlong Feng, Xuefei Gong, Jingyao Hu, C. A. Kulesa, J.S. Lawrence, Genrong Liu, D.M. Luong-Van, Jun Ma, A. M. Moore, Weijia Qin, Zhaohui Shang, J.W.V. S...
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Monterey Canyon
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Electricians prefer to keep power cords dry as a rule. But in Monterey, California, scientists and engineers are hopeful that immersing electrical cable off the coast will profoundly improve how the oceans are studied. This week, a team from the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) w...
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Giant freak waves
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When seafarers described giant freak waves in tones of awe, sceptical landlubbers dismissed them as fantasy. Now scientists believe they have evidence of a wave the size of a 10-storey building.
It happened on September 16 last year when Hurricane Ivan stormed across the Gulf of Mexic...
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Mount Tai
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Data for Mount Tai's ancient trees stored on digital ID cards Nearly 20,000 ancient trees on the renowned Mount Tai in Shandong province now have "digital ID cards", the Mount Tai scenic area management committee said on Sunday. The digital ID cards hold basic information on the trees collected by a...
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Mount St Helens
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A large part of the growing lava dome on Mount St. Helens fell Saturday, sending an ash plume above the crater rim.
A rock fall had caused what scientists called a "substantial seismic signal'' and knocked the chunk off the lava dome, which rises from within the main crater that was created in the m...
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Dome C
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Dome C is one of the most barren places in the world. As one visitor said: "Once you've seen the horizon, you've seen everything" .
Looking at the vast white desert, like the ice world Hoth, it is hard to see what Dome C could possibly contribute to our never ending study of the universe...
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Ancient mammal
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For the first time, researchers at the University of Alberta have been able to put a name and a description to an ancient mammal that still defies classification.
The findings, published recently in the Journal of Palaeontology provide the first and only comprehensive account of the creature, n...
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A strong magnitude 6.5 earthquake occurred at 14:10:15 (UTC) on Saturday, November 19, 2005, in Simeulue, Indonesia, 235 km West-NorthWest of Sibolga, Sumatra, at a depth of 30km.
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Loughcrew Cairn
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Irish archaeoastronomer Paul Griffin has announced the confirmation of the world's oldest known solar eclipse recorded in stone, substantially older than the recordings made in 2800 BC by Chinese astronomers. This finding was made at the world's oldest lunar eclipse tracking multi cairn site a...
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Green Bank Telescope
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Title: Out-Of-Focus Holography at the Green Bank Telescope
Authors: B. Nikolic, R. M. Prestage, D. S. Balser, C. J. Chandler, R. E. Hills
We describe phase-retrieval holography measurements of the 100-m diameter Green Bank Telescope using astronomical sources and an ast...
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Pine Island Glacier
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Huge Crack Discovered in Antarctic Glacier A huge, emerging crack has been discovered in one of Antarctica's glaciers, with a NASA plane mission providing the first-ever detailed airborne measurements of a major iceberg breakup in progress. NASA's Operation Ice Bridge, the largest airborne su...
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