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International Liquid Mirror Telescope
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The idea of a liquid mirror is an old one, and some experimental liquid-mirror telescopes have been built. But the potential of the concept for astronomy is only now reaching fruition. The world's first dedicated astronomical observatory with a liquid-mirror telescope at a top-class observing s...
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Thanet island
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It was one of the islands of chalk left when the sea broke through to form the English Channel in 6500 BC: the others are now beneath the sea. It was left separated from the mainland by what became known as the Wantsum Channel, until the deposition of silt from the River Stour along the coast joined the Isl...
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C-19A Iceberg
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One of the largest icebergs in the world a hulk three times the size of Greater London will now be known as Melting Bob after a six-year-old boy won a competition to give it a name. Max Dolan, from Winchester, beat 500 entrants in a naming contest set by the Scott Polar Research Institute at Cambridge Uni...
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Exoplanet Roadmap Advisory Team
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ESA is launching a new initiative to develop a roadmap for finding Earth-like planets. Searching for rocky planets around other stars, in the hopes of finding an Earth-like world, is a top scientific goal in ESA's Cosmic Vision programme. Achieving this ambition requires a great deal of technolo...
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Tropical Storm Alma
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Tropical Storm Alma is forecast to make landfall in Nicaragua probability for CAT 1 or above is 35% currently probability for TS is 100% currently
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Brothers Volcano
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Unmanned vehicles will fly into the crater of an offshore volcano during the next three weeks to map it at high precision and search for possible mineral deposits. In a New Zealand-led mission that has parallels to planetary exploration, two state-of-the-art robotic underwater vehicles will be d...
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Arakan Mud Volcano
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A mud volcano erupted on an island in Manaung Township in Arakan twice on the night of 25 May, 2008, but there are no reports on any damaged caused by the eruption. Read more
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European Mineral Sciences Initiative (EuroMinScI)
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Major advances in the use of physics-based experimental techniques (nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, synchrotron radiation, neutron scattering, phonon spectroscopy, laser-ablation based techniques, etc.) and atomistic computer simulation make it possible to study mineral pro...
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Burrell Schmidt Telescope
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Using new instrumentation, Case Western Reserve University astronomers can now view the night sky wider and deeper than before. While the vast reaches of intergalactic space may appear dark and empty, a new camera installed on the university's Burrell Schmidt telescope at Kitt Peak National Obs...
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Lodeynoe Pole Air Base
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A fire at an air base arms depot in north-western Russia has reportedly set off several missiles, but caused no deaths or injuries. Amateur video shows what appear to be at least two rockets zigzagging through a clear afternoon sky around the Lodeynoe Pole base near St Petersburg. [url=http://news...
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Neil Turok
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Neil Turok is named director of Canadas Perimeter Institute. Read more
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Dayang Yihao
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China launched its first ever round-the-world ocean research mission on April 2nd 2005 to search the seas for new forms of life.
Its top research ship, the Dayang Yihao (Ocean No 1), will visit the Pacific Ocean, the Atlantic Ocean and the Indian Ocean after setting off from Qingdao in East...
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C.H. Lanphier Observatory
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A 1960s-era custom-built telescope and dome donated by the Lanphier family to a local astronomy group have been transplanted and revitalised into a new observatory. The C.H. Lanphier Observatory named for the late Charles Chick Lanphier III, a Springfield business and civic leader who had the te...
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Typhoon Halong
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Typhoon Halong is forecast to make landfall in Philippines within 6 hours probability for CAT 1 or above is 90% probability for TS is 100% Vigan (17.5 N, 120.5 E) probability for CAT 1 or above is 45% probability for TS is 95%
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LOCAD-PTS instrument
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Lab on a Chip "What a huge relief. The whole technical team was delighted that it worked so well" - Norman Wainwright of the Charles River Laboratories in Charleston, SC. He's talking about a miniature biological laboratory just tested for the first time onboard the International Spac...
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