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Tropical Storm Kalmaegi
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Tropical Storm Kalmaegi is forecast to make landfall in Taiwan. probability for CAT 1 or above is 50% in about 24 hours probability for TS is 65% within 12 hours China probability for CAT 1 or above is 35% in about 36 hours probability for TS is 45% in about 36 hours ...
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Okmok Caldera
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A volcano erupted Saturday with little warning on a remote island in Alaska, sending residents of a ranch fleeing from falling ash and volcanic rock. Okmok Caldera erupted hours after seismologists at the Alaska Volcano Observatory began detecting a series of tremors. The explosion flung an ash c...
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Artificial life
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Around the world, a handful of scientists are trying to create life from scratch and they're getting closer. Experts expect an announcement within three to 10 years from someone in the now little-known field of "wet artificial life." [url=http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/...
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Turkey astronomy heritage list
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Work is underway to create a list of important Turkish sites related to astronomy, as the United Nations declares 2009 the International Year of Astronomy to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Galileo Galilei's first-ever recorded use of a telescope. [url=http://www.turkishdailynews.com.t...
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Milham Planetarium
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While there are plenty of stars shining on stage at the Williamstown Theatre Festival this summer, even bigger stars are appearing twice weekly in a much more intimate setting. And these stars are millions if not billions of years old. Inside the Hopkins Observatory on the Williams College campus j...
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North Pole-35
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The drifting station research unit 'North Pole-35' at 81.26 north latitude, 103.30 east longitude. was set up in the Arctic on Friday. "The research unit will begin work by sending the first weather-report to the Global Weather Network" - Sergei Balyasnikov, a spokesman for the Arct...
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The Fortingall yew
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The Fortingall yew is claimed to be oldest living thing in Europe. Botanists estimate the tree to be about 5,000 years old. Located in a church yard in Perthshire near Glen Lyon, the yew tree is enclosed by a stone wall built in 1785 to keep tourists from taking home any more clippings as souvenirs. The y...
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Pendarves Quoit
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Pendarves Quoit, also known as Carwynnen Quoit, is a Bronze Age Burial Chamber located in West Cornwall (England). The site is in a collapsed condition and stands on private setaside farmland. The Sustainable Trust is in negotiations with the owners to buy the five acres of land on which the Quoit is...
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Scarlet Knight Glider
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Far out in the Atlantic, a little yellow submarine is trying to slip from current to current, gliding across the ocean beneath the waves. The unmanned sub is nearing the halfway mark in its effort to travel from New Jersey to Spain, collecting scientific data along the way. [url=http://www.thenews...
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Science First planetarium
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A North Buffalo manufacturer of science education equipment is looking to the stars for growth, with the purchase of an astronomy-related manufacturing company. Science First bought Massachusetts based Learning Tech...
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EBAI Project
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Title: Artificial Intelligence Approach to the Determination of Physical Properties of Eclipsing Binaries. I. The EBAI Project Authors: A. Prsa, E.F. Guinan, E.J. Devinney, M. DeGeorge, D.H. Bradstreet, J.M. Giammarco, C.R. Al****, S.G. Engle Achieving maximum scientific results from the o...
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Hurricane Bertha
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Hurricane Bertha has become a "major" hurricane in the open Atlantic on Monday, with sustained winds of at least 185 kph. The second named storm of the 2008 Atlantic hurricane season was heading west-northwest in the direction of Bermuda when it became a Category 3 storm on the five-step...
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Sukhoi Su-35
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Russia's new state-of-the-art Su-35 Flanker multi-role air superiority/strike fighter successfully completed its first demonstration flight on Monday. The Sukhoi Su-35 (NATO designation: Flanker-E) is a 4.5 generation heavy class, long-range, multi-role, air superiority fighter and st...
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Cairo earthquake
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A geological study warned that in the coming few years Cairo might be subject to three destructive earthquakes that could measure a staggering 7 degrees on the Richter scale. The study conducted by Egyptian geologist Taha Mohamed Abul Azayem, predicts that the point of initial rupture of the stron...
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Amarnath cave
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Amarnath cave believed to be 5,000 years old Where exactly is the Amarnath cave? Amarnath is a 150 feet high and 90 feet long cave located nearly 145 km east of Srinagar. Located in a Himalayan glacial valley at a height of approximately 4,000m the cave has four ice formations, which are considered fig...
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