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Christie's Paris Auction
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Visitors to Christie's International's Paris auction hall are being greeted by the upright skeleton of a 2.3 meter prehistoric cave bear, poised to strike with his four fangs and full set of eight molars. The bones of the creature, which lived in what's now Siberia before the last ice age ended about...
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DESIRE project
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Creeping desertification around the world affects more than 250 million people. A newly launched research project is working to fight the phenomenon with new conservation strategies. Funded under the EU's Sixth Framework Programme (FP6), the DESIRE project is international, bringing togeth...
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Gen. Hoyt S. Vandenberg
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Project to sink military ship begins After 10 years of fund-raising and getting permits, a project has begun to sink a retired military ship off Key West to serve as an artificial reef. Last Friday, the decommissioned U.S. Air Force missile-tracking ship Gen. Hoyt S. Vandenberg, a 523-foot ship tha...
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Alan Hale
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Alan Hale, PhD, achieved worldwide recognition when Comet Hale-Bopp whooshed through the skies in the early months of 1997. But Hales contributions are not limited to the co-discovery of the most widely-viewed comet in history. He has studied extensively the threat posed by near-Earth asteroid...
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Richard Dawkins
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Richard Dawkins reads excerpts from The God Delusion and answers questions at Randolph-Macon Woman's College in Lynchburg, Virginia on October 23, 2006. This Q&A features many questions from Jerry Falwell's Liberty "University" students. In Richard's tour journal he says:
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Q'oyllur Riti
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At least 2,000 Quechuan marchers and dancers filled the streets of Cusco on March 5 to protect the Andean sacred site of Q'oyllur Riti from mining activities.
Dressed in the traditional clothing and masks of the Q'oyllur Riti festival, one of the most important indigenous festivals in Peru, they...
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Kurile Lake caldera
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Kurile Lake is located in the southernmost part of Kamchatka, at the southern end of the subduction-related Eastern volcanic front. Five Late Pleistocene-Holocene volcanoes (from north to south: Zheltovsky; Iliinsky, Dikii Greben'; Koshelev, and Kambalny) located only 12-18 km one from ano...
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Uzon Caldera
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Uzon Caldera developed 40 thousand years ago on the site of a huge volcano destroyed by a set of bursting eruptions. The last cataclysm inside the Caldera (8,500 years ago) left its trace as a blasting crater about one kilometre in diameter. The following centuries of intensive hydro-thermal acti...
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Boy finds watch
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A wris****ch buried in the ice at the North Pole three years ago was found by a boy more than 1,800 miles away after it floated ashore on the Faeroe Islands.
Niels Jakup Mortensen, 11, spotted a black box near his home on Suduroy, the Faeroes' southernmost island, his mother Anna Jacobsen said. Insid...
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Robert J. Novins Planetarium
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Supporters of the Robert J. Novins Planetarium on the Ocean County College campus in Toms River now know what it will take to reopen the facility: $1.5 million. That will pay for digital technology and renovations to the building that for 35 years has housed the first introduction to astronomy for ge...
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Eridanos River bed
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Athens' latest archaeological attraction opened on Monday several metres underground, as visitors and commuters passing through the Greek capital's Monastiraki metro station will be able to peer into excavations revealing the Eridanos River bed -- one of ancient Athens' oft-cited streams. T...
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The Children of Húrin
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Christopher Tolkien has completed the last book of J.R.R. Tolkien from notes left from his father. The first new Tolkien novel for 30 years is to be published next month. In a move eagerly anticipated by millions of fans across the world, The Children of Húrin will be released worldwide on 17 April, 89...
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India's first science village
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India's first science village in Assam soon In strife-torn Assam countryside, a unique experiment in science popularisation will soon get underway. A 75-acre 'science village' — the first of its kind in India — is being set up in rural Jamugurihat, about 250 km from Guwahati, where r...
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Scientists Create Tiniest-Ever Alphabet Soup
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Scientists have created the tiniest-ever alphabet soup by designing and producing billions of microscale fluorescent particles in the shapes of the 26 letters, all in one font and suspended in a liquid.
The UCLA researchers said they can pick up the letters with lasers and reposition and reorie...
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Oxyrhynchus
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Oxyrhynchus is an archaeological site in Egypt, considered one of the most important ever discovered. For the past century, the area around Oxyrhynchus has been continually excavated, yielding an enormous collection of papyrus texts dating from the time of the Ptolemaic and Roman periods of Egy...
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