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Gloria Knolls Slide
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Ancient undersea landslide discovered in Australia Scientists have discovered evidence of a massive ancient undersea landslide next to Australia's Great Barrier Reef. The Gloria Knolls Slide is at least 300,000 years old and 32 cubic km in volume, or 30 times the size of Uluru. The landslide coul...
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Sanjiangyuan National Park
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China to invest 1 bln yuan in national park Construction of the Sanjiangyuan National Park to protect the headwaters of the Yangtze, Yellow and Lancang (Mekong) rivers will start this year with the building of roads and installing of surveillance cameras to assist protection work. Read more
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Aérospatiale-BAC Concorde
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Credit royhahmann Aérospatiale-BAC Concorde is a retired turbojet-powered supersonic passenger airliner, a supersonic transport (SST). Concorde 001 made its first test flight from Toulouse on 2 March 1969, piloted by André Turcat, a...
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Indonesia tsunami network
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New Indonesia tsunami network could add crucial minutes Indonesia's tsunami detection system, made up of seafloor sensors that communicate with transmitting buoys on the surface, has been rendered useless by vandals and lack of funding. Now Indonesian and U.S. scientists say they've develope...
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Saccorhytus
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Scientists find 'oldest human ancestor' Researchers have discovered the earliest known ancestor of humans - along with a vast range of other species. They say that fossilised traces of the 540-million-year-old creature are "exquisitely well preserved". The microscopic sea animal is the earli...
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Siamogale melilutra
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Fossils of huge 'wolf-sized' otter unearthed in China Scientists have unearthed fossils of an intriguingly large otter as big as a wolf that frolicked in rivers and lakes in a lush, warm and humid wetlands region in south-western China about 6.2 million years ago. Researchers say the outsized otte...
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Formicidae
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Argentine ants living in vast numbers across Europe, the US and Japan belong to the same inter-related colony, and do not fight one another, as unrelated ants do. The colony may be the largest of its type ever known for any insect species, and may rival humans in the scale of its world domination. In Eur...
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Jet engine
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Discovery could lead to jet engines that run hotter - and cleaner Researchers here have made a discovery in materials science that sounds like something from the old Saturday morning cartoon Super Friends: They've found a way to deactivate "nano twins" to improve the high-temperature properties...
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Hunt for missing plane may be called off Australia's Deputy Prime Minister Warren Truss has said the search for the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 cannot go on forever, and discussions are already underway between Australia, China and Malaysia as to whether to call off the hunt within week...
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Pottery figurines
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Prehistoric pottery figurines unearthed in central China Pottery figurines have been unearthed in central China's Hunan Province, local archaeologists said Wednesday. Among the pieces found in the Sunjiagang relic site of Changde City was a human-shaped figure that was about 4,000 years old....
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Research vessel Skagerak
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New Research Vessel Launched The new research vessel Skagerak has now been put in water for the first time, and everything seems to have worked as planned. A few days ago, Skagerak was transferred from its construction site to another shipyard, Remontowa, aboard a barge carrier to be placed in a floa...
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Icebreaker Xuelong
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Scientific expedition team give New Year greeting on icebreaker Xuelong Read more
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Uluru
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Uluru / Ayers Rock Northern Territory Australia Spoiler Uluru, also known as Ayers Rock and officially gazetted as Uluru / Ayers Rock, is a large sandstone rock formation in the southern part of the Northern Territory in cen...
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Kennewick Man
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After nearly a decade of court battles, scientists plan to begin studying the 9,300-year-old skeleton known as Kennewick Man next week.
A team of scientists plans to examine the bones at the University of Washington's Burke Museum in Seattle beginning July 6, according to their attorney, Ala...
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Chinese Polar Icebreaker
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China will build a polar icebreaker that would be capable of shattering ice over 1.5 metres thick, an official said. Read more
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