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It's long been a mystery why the H.L. Hunley never returned after becoming the first submarine in history to sink an enemy warship in 1864, but new research announced Friday may lend credence to one of the theories. Scientists found the eight-man crew of the hand-cranked Confederate submarine had n...
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Battle of Hastings
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The Battle of Hastings occurred on 14 October 1066 during the Norman conquest of England, between the Norman-French army of Duke William II of Normandy and the English army under King Harold II. Read more
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Lake Zjuratkul geoglyph
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Mysterious Elk-Shaped Structure Discovered in Russia A huge geoglyph in the shape of an elk or deer discovered in Russia may predate Peru's famous Nazca Lines by thousands of years. The animal-shaped stone structure, located near Lake Zjuratkul in the Ural Mountains, north of Kazakhstan, has an e...
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Intranasal scopolamine
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NASA Signs Agreement To Develop Nasal Spray For Motion Sickness NASA's Johnson Space Centre in Houston and Epiomed Therapeutics Inc. of Irvine, Calif., have signed an agreement to develop and commercialize a NASA-crafted, fast-acting nasal spray to fight motion sickness. [url=http://www.sa...
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Chuquicamata
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Chile's huge open-pit copper mine goes underground From above, it looks like a colossal amphitheatre carved from rock, or the vast crater from a meteorite that crashed into Chile's Atacama desert ages ago. Inside the world's largest open-pit copper mine, dump trucks as big as two-story houses wor...
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Argo Droids
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NIWA's Kaharoa sets sail to deploy robots across the Pacific NIWA research vessel Kaharoa will depart Wellington on Friday 12 October to deploy 120 Argo robotic instruments across the Pacific Ocean. Argo is an observation system for the Earth's oceans. [url=http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/S...
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Sealand
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For sale: the world’s smallest country, complete with its own passports, currency, stamps and national football team. Uninterrupted sea views and complete privacy assured. Oh, and more wind than you will ever want. Offers in the region of eight-digit sums considered.
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Morant Bay rebellion
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The Morant Bay rebellion began on October 11, 1865, when Paul Bogle led 200 to 300 black men and women into the town of Morant Bay, parish of St. Thomas in the East, Jamaica. The rebellion and its aftermath were a major turning point in Jamaica's history, and also generated a significant political de...
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Limited Test Ban Treaty
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The Limited Test Ban Treaty (LTBT) is a treaty prohibiting all test detonations of nuclear weapons except underground. It was developed both to slow the arms race (nuclear testing was, at the time, necessary for continued nuclear weapon advancements), and to stop the excessive release of nuclear...
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Kulindroplax perissokomos
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Title: A Silurian armoured aplacophoran and implications for molluscan phylogeny Authors: Mark D. Sutton, Derek E. G. Briggs, David J. Siveter, Derek J. Siveter & Julia D. Sigwart The Mollusca is one of the most diverse, important and well-studied invertebrate phyla; however, relationshi...
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Triton statue
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New Triton statue unveiled A new statue of Triton has been put outside the Radcliffe Humanities building this week, to replace the old statue which is being restored. Read more
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Uppsala University
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Uppsala University (Swedish: Uppsala universitet) is a research university in Uppsala, Sweden, and is the oldest university in Sweden, founded in 1477. It ranks among the best universities in Northern Europe in international rankings and is generally considered one of the most prestigious ins...
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Niels Bohr
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Niels Henrik David Bohr (7 October 1885 - 18 November 1962) was a Danish physicist who made fundamental contributions to understanding atomic structure and quantum mechanics, for which he received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1922. Niels Bohr was a goalkeeper in the Danish team Akademisk Boldklu...
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Todays award goes to the anonymous spammer who hacked the NOAA.gov website. More than 70 pages pushing the prescription drug Soma were uploaded to the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration ( NOAA ) government website by an unauthorised user over the weekend. The unauthorised page...
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IOP-STFC Physics Journalism Prize
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New prize for journalism aims to change perceptions of physics In a year that has already seen the discovery of the Higgs Boson particle and the landing on Mars of the Curiosity Rover the opportunities for the media to raise awareness of amazing science has never been greater. To celebrate the work of...
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