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Jurassic Ecosystem of Strawberry Bank Ilminster
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Fossil fishes come to life in Ilminster A collection of important fossil specimens are coming back to their home town in Somerset for an outreach open day, thanks to a partnership between Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution (BRLSI) and the University of Bristol. [url=http://www.bris...
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Krill
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Scientists have discovered Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba) living and feeding down to depths of 3000 metres in the waters around the Antarctic Peninsula. Until now this shrimp-like crustacean was thought to live only in the upper ocean. The discovery completely changes scientists unde...
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USS Nautilus
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USS Nautilus (SSN-571) is the world's first operational nuclear-powered submarine. She was also the first vessel to complete a submerged transit across the North Pole. She was christened on 21 January 1954 and launched into the Thames River, sponsored by Mamie Eisenhower, the wife of Truman's su...
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Tsangpo Gorge
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Geochemical 'fingerprints' leave evidence that megafloods eroded steep gorge The Yarlung-Tsangpo River in southern Asia drops rapidly through the Himalaya Mountains on its way to the Bay of Bengal, losing about 7,000 feet of elevation through the precipitously steep Tsangpo Gorge. For the fir...
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Beowulf
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Beowulf is an Old English heroic epic poem of unknown authorship, dating as recorded in the Nowell Codex manuscript from between the 8th and the early 11th century, set in Denmark and Sweden. Commonly cited as one of the most important works of Anglo-Saxon literature, Beowulf has been the subject of...
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Oldest calendar
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'World's oldest calendar' discovered in Scottish field Archaeologists believe they have discovered the world's oldest lunar "calendar" in an Aberdeenshire field. Excavations of a field at Crathes Castle found a series of 12 pits which appear to mimic the phases of the moon and track l...
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Dolly
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Dolly (5 July 1996 - 14 February 2003) was a female domestic sheep, and the first mammal to be cloned from an adult somatic cell, using the process of nuclear transfer. She was cloned by Ian Wilmut, Keith Campbell and colleagues at the Roslin Institute and the biotechnology company PPL Therapeutics n...
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Cook Sub-Glacial Lake
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Antarctic flood produces 'ice crater' Scientists have seen evidence for a colossal flood under Antarctica that drained six billion tonnes of water, quite possibly straight to the ocean. The cause is thought to be a deeply buried lake that suddenly over-topped. Satellites were used to map the crat...
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Obninsk
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The first nuclear power plant in the world for the large-scale production of electricity opened in Obninsk on June 27, 1954, and it also doubled as a training base for the crew of the Soviet Union's first nuclear submarine, the K-3 Leninsky Komsomol. Now the city is home to twelve scientific research...
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Battle of the Little Bighorn
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The Battle of the Little Bighorn, also known as Custer's Last Stand and, by the Native Americans involved, the Battle of the Greasy Grass, was an armed engagement between combined forces of Lakota, Northern Cheyenne and Arapaho people against the 7th Cavalry Regiment of the United States Army. Rea...
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Voynich Manuscript
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I give examples to show that the code used in the Voynich Manuscript is probably a series of Italian word anagrams written in a fancy embellished script. This code, that has been confusing scholars for nearly a century, is therefore not as complicated as it first appears. All attempts over the past ce...
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Thrinaxodon
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Pristine Fossil Reveals Unlikely Pair The small but sharp-toothed Thrinaxodon probably spent much of its time dining on its Triassic cohabitants, but a study published today reports a pristine fossil of the meat-eater apparently peacefully sharing its burrow with a small amphibian - until they...
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Dragon Harald Fairhair
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Viking DNA expert leads longboat raid in Norway A 54-strong 'Viking Navy' led by a University of Nottingham scientist and Viking expert has carried out an unusual expedition to Norway, to row the largest replica Viking longship ever built. Professor Stephen Harding and his crew of Viking enthusia...
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Stone Age technology
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Stone Age technological and cultural innovation accelerated by climate change According to a study by the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, the University of Cardiff and the Natural History Museum in London, technological innovation during the Stone Age occurred in fits and starts and was cli...
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Mahendraparvata
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Laser technology reveals lost city around Angkor Wat Airborne laser technology has uncovered a network of roads and canals, illustrating the remains of a bustling ancient city linking Cambodia's famed Angkor Wat temples complex. The discovery was announced late on Monday in a peer-reviewed pap...
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