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Lancefield Fossils
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Fossils of giant kangaroos and 3 tonne wombats found in a Lancefield paddock are at risk of disappearing. Archaeologist Dr Joe Dortch, who led surveying teams at the Lancefield Swamp in 2004 and 2005, says the drought and many bores sunk by residents are lowering the water level and causing the fossi...
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Rochdale Stone circle
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Archaeologists have unearthed a "mini-Stonehenge"... on the moors of Rochdale. The two nearby sites - an oval made up of collapsed slabs, and a 30-metre circle of rounded stones - are believed to be ancient burial sites dating back as far as 5,000 years. They were spotted by archaeologis...
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Ventastega curonica
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Scientists say a fossil of a four-legged fish sheds new light on the process of evolution. The creature had a fish-like body but the head of an animal more suited to land than water. Read more
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Consultative Committee for Space Data Systems
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The Consultative Committee for Space Data Systems ( CCSDS ) today announced that the China National Space Administration ( CNSA ) has been accepted as the eleventh full member agency of the organisation. China's admission to the organisation marks the first addition to the membership since 1997....
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Ultraviolet light identifies organics
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A team of scientists from the US and the UK has developed a technique using ultraviolet light to identify organic matter in soils that could be used to find life on Mars. Chemical compounds called polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), often are found on comets, meteorites and in space between th...
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Typhoon Fengshen
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Typhoon Fengshen is forecast to make landfall in the Philippines Oras (12.1 N, 125.4 E) probability for CAT 1 or above is 45% probability for TS is 80% Sorsogon (13.0 N, 124.1 E) probability for CAT 1 or above is 45% in about 3 hours probability for TS is 75% in abou...
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Seshan 25m telescope
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Prehistoric workshop
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Archaeological tools dating back to the Stone Age have been discovered in the east of Sharjah near the Hajar Mountains, officials announced yesterday.
A group of experts from Sharjah's Archaeology Department, Tubingen University in Germany and Oxford University in England discovered the pr...
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Nanobes
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Creepy things from beneath the sea are clichés of modern exploration, but the abyss has now produced a surprise so bizarre as to have touched off hot international debate: tiny, mysterious, apparently living creatures far smaller than any known bacterium -- so small as to strain the limits on what i...
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Times Online archive
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Every issue of The Times published between 1785 and 1985 has been digitally scanned in conjunction with Times Online. Twenty million articles, pictures and advertisements, from the groundbreaking coverage of the Crimean War by William Howard Russell to letters to the Editor from figures such as...
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Moses Lake dunes
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NASA tests robotic vehicles in Moses Lake dunes NASA has been at the dunes for two weeks testing new robotic vehicles that have been developed at laboratories across the country. The equipment is intended to be used in decades to come when the space agency returns to the moon and eventually puts human...
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Broken Hill Observatory
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Nuclear icebreaker
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A new nuclear icebreaker will be built in Russia by 2015, the head of the state nuclear corporation Rosatom said on Monday after signing an agreement with the leadership of the northern Murmansk Region. Responsibility for Russia's nuclear icebreaker fleet will be handed over to Rosatom from the Mu...
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Mexborough and Swinton Astronomical Association
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Astronomer Sir Patrick Moore has sent a message of congratulations to a group of South Yorkshire enthusiasts celebrating 30 years of stargazing. Mexborough and Swinton Astronomical Association is organising a special celebration event later this month with leading speakers from the science w...
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Tidnish Astronomy Club
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If you have a pair of binoculars, there are a lot of things you can see in the night sky. And if you have a passion or interest in finding those objects, Roger LeBlanc may have just the thing for you. The local astronomy enthusiast is moving ahead with his plan to start a club featuring the hobby. [url=http...
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