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Aviation reports - 2011 - A11F0012 The Air Canada Boeing 767-333 (registration C-GHLQ, serial number 30846) was operating as flight ACA878 from Toronto, Ontario, to Zurich, Switzerland. Approximately halfway across the Atlantic, during the hours of darkness, the aircraft experienced a 46-se...
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Ancient mega-lake
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Researchers at the Boston University Centre for Remote Sensing used recently acquired topographic data from satellites to reveal a now dry, ancient mega-lake in the Darfur province of northwestern Sudan. Drs. Eman Ghoneim and Farouk El-Baz made the finding while investigating Landsat imag...
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Energy giant BP Plc indicated some progress on Monday toward capping the underwater well that ruptured in the Gulf of Mexico almost two weeks ago, pushing a giant oil slick toward the U.S. Gulf Coast.
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The Secchi disk
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The Secchi disk, created in 1865 by Pietro Angelo Secchi SJ, is a circular disk used to measure water transparency in oceans and lakes. The disc is mounted on a pole or line, and lowered slowly down in the water. The depth at which the pattern on the disk is no longer visible is taken as a measure of the tran...
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Sapienza University of Rome
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Sapienza University of Rome was founded as La Sapienza in 1303 with the bull In supremae praeminentia dignitatis issued on 20 April 1303 by Pope Boniface VIII, as a Studium for ecclesiastical studies more under his control than the universities of Bologna and Padua Read more
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Sonic screwdriver
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Making a real sonic screwdriver Doctor Who's sonic screwdriver has saved him from his alien enemies throughout the universe. A team of physicists at Dundee University have designed and built their own sonic screwdriver. Read more
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Gujarat solar power park
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Asia's largest solar park functional in Gujarat A 600 MW solar power park, touted as Asia's first and largest, was dedicated to the nation by Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi in the State's Patan district, in a boost to India's efforts towards low carbon growth. The solar power park with a power...
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Chickens
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Why did the chicken cross the ocean? To get to America before Columbus - and from the other direction - according to a new report in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Many scholars had thought chickens arrived in the New World with the early Spanish or Portuguese explorers around the ye...
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Burramys parvus
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Emergency action gives Pygmy-possums a future A team from the University of Melbourne, Department of Sustainability and Environment (DSE) and an independent expert (Dean Heinze) took the action to genetically rescue a population of one of Australias rarest marsupials, the threatened Mounta...
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USS Glacier
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Move under way to save distinguished ice breaker The ice breaker that helped found McMurdo Station on Antarctica and performed a record-breaking 39 Arctic and Antarctic deployments may become scrap despite more than a decade of repairs and studies aimed at making the ship a museum or medical and s...
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Basilica Papale di San Pietro
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The Papal Basilica of Saint Peter (Latin: Basilica Sancti Petri), officially known in Italian as the Basilica Papale di San Pietro in Vaticano and commonly known as St. Peter's Basilica, is a Late Renaissance church located within the Vatican City. Construction of the present basilica, over the o...
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Horsens Fjord Settlement
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Organic tools found in Stone Age camp Stone Age people didn't only use tools made out of rock - they also used tools made from wood and antlers, according to a new discovery in Danish waters. The Stone Age settlement has been hidden under water and a thick layer of sand over millennia. But over the past f...
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Animal welfare
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Brian May and academics to put Government under pressure to improve animal welfare at University of Leicester event Seminar will discuss Wildlife Conservation, Animal Welfare and Public Policy on Thursday 19 April Queen guitarist and animal welfare activist Brian May will introduce a nationa...
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The Daffodils
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"I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" (also commonly known as "Daffodils" or "The Daffodils") is a poem by William Wordsworth. It was inspired by an April 15, 1802 event in which Wordsworth and his sister, Dorothy, came across a "long belt" of daffodils. Read...
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Lechuguilla Cave
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The world's most isolated cave is home to 4 million year old "superbugs" Lechuguilla Cave has been completely isolated from the outside world for over four million years, making it one of the world's most pristine ecosystems. And yet it's full of bacteria that are resistant to modern an...
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