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Petroleum Development Oman (PDO) has announced the discovery of four oil fields. The discoveries, in the north at Ufuq and Dafiq, and in the south at Sakhiya-South West and Mamour, will contribute to PDO’s oil production.
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Ice Coring
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International Greenland Ice Coring Effort Sets New Drilling Record in 2009 A new international research effort on the Greenland ice sheet with the University of Colorado at Boulder as the lead U.S. institution set a record for single-season deep ice-core drilling this summer, recovering more th...
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A single olive branch may have solved one of ancient history's most enduring mysteries - when and why did the great Minoan civilisation of the Mediterranean come to a sudden end?
The olive branch was buried alive during a cataclysmic volcanic eruption on the Aegean island of Thera - now known as S...
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Shanghai Planetarium
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Shanghai Planetarium, world's largest, to build Shanghai Planetarium (a branch of Shanghai Science & Technology Museum) broke ground on Tuesday morning at Lingang New City in Pudong New Area and will open to the public in 2020, according to eastday.com. Read more
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Space Seeds
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NASA Delivers Space Seeds to Park Seed How many Ph.D.s does it take to open a NASA space seed container? That was just one of the many questions discussed when Dr. Bill Kinard from NASA visited Park Seed Company recently to deliver approximately 1 million Cinnamon Basil seeds that spent a year orbitin...
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The detailed design for the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) developed by a U.S.-Canadian team is capable of delivering on the full promise of its enormous light-collecting area, according to the findings of an independent panel of experts.
With the TMT, astronomers will be able to analyse...
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Pictish stone
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A Carved Pictish stone uncovered in a field near Forfar could become a permanent resident of the town's museum.
Members of Angus Council's leisure committee agreed last night to ask Dundee Museum to extend its loan of the Dunnichen stone to the Meffan Institute for another five years.
Councill...
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Renewable energy
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Renewable energy capacity overtakes coal The International Energy Agency says that the world's capacity to generate electricity from renewable sources has now overtaken coal. The IEA says in a new report that last year, renewables accounted for more than half of the increase in power capacity. R...
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Austfonna ice cap
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Satellites catch Austfonna shedding ice Rapid ice loss in a remote Arctic ice cap has been detected by the Sentinel-1A and CryoSat satellites. Located on Norway's Nordaustlandet island in the Svalbard archipelago, parts of the Austfonna ice cap have thinned by more than 50 m since 2012 - about a six...
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Three Alaska volcanoes, including two located on remote Aleutian islands, are setting off frequent tremors and minor bursts of ash or steam.
Cleveland Volcano, 900 miles southwest of Anchorage, had a small eruption on Friday. An ash plume rose to a height of nearly 15,000 feet above sea l...
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Operation IceBridge mission
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NASA Airborne Science Campaign Begins Antarctic Sequel Scientists returned this week to the Southern Hemisphere where NASA's Operation IceBridge mission is set to begin its second year of airborne surveys over Antarctica. The mission monitors the region's changing sea ice, ice sheets and glac...
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Mt. Bulusan exploded again at 10:44 a.m. yesterday, spewing a column of ash that reached 1.6-km high into the sky and showering surrounding villages with ash.
The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology said steam inside the volcano ejected the ash.
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Armintze Cave
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Cave art: Etchings hailed as 'Iberia's most spectacular' Cave art as much as 14,500 years old has been pronounced "the most spectacular and impressive" ever discovered on the Iberian peninsula. About 50 etchings were found in the Basque town of Lekeitio. Read more
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Mt. Oldonyo Lengai
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A volcano in northern Tanzania erupted on Friday, spewing small amounts of smoke and lava, the government spokesman said. Mt. Oldonyo Lengai, which is close to the border with Kenya, is believed to be the source of a series of shallow earthquakes experienced in the region over the past week, said Alf...
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A major British electrical retailer is selling solar panels in high street shops for the first time.
Currys has launched a pilot scheme in three of its stores selling the off-the-shelf green technology.
Shoppers in West Thurrock, Essex, and Fulham and Croydon in Greater London will be able t...
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