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Yerkes Observatory
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Aurora University submitted a proposal on Friday to purchase Yerkes Observatory and the surrounding acreage and buildings located in Williams Bay, Wisconsin, owned by the University of Chicago.
"Our goal is to maximize the long-term educational use of one of America’s significant scie...
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Narmada dam
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An alert has been sounded in Surat, Bharuch, Kheda, Narmada, Anand and Vadodara districts of Gujarat as the Narmada dam is reportedly overflowing.
The inflow is expected to go up by 3-4 times over the next 24 hours.
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Typhoon Saomai
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According to the Chinese meteorological observatory, heavy rainstorms brought by Typhoon Saomai will hit the coastal and southern parts of east China's Zhejiang Province.
Heavy rains will hit Wenzhou, Taizhou, Ningbo and the eastern part of Lishui in Zhejiang from Wednesday night till Frida...
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Tropical storm Bopha
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Tropical storm Bopha is approaching China and may make landfall in Fujian Province.
If it hits the mainland it would be the ninth Tropical storm to hit China this year
The tropical storm, whose Cambodian name means a flower, is heading westward at a speed of 15 kilometres per hour.
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Alaska Satellite Facility
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On an August day 15 years ago, a dozen people crowded around a computer in Fairbanks and saw what they hoped to see-islands and ice rafts north of Hudson Bay, Canada, transmitted to them from a satellite 500 miles overhead. After letting out a collective whoop, they compared the snapshot from above to...
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Burial Cairn Offerings
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The actions of a domestic cat have thrown up a new theory about ancient stone burial cairns in Caithness, Scotland. Archaeologists built a mock-up of the structures as part of an experiment. Emma Sanderson, of Caithness Archaeology Trust, said it was found that a dead rabbit had been left in the repl...
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Moravia engraved bone
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30,000-year-old engraved bone found in Moravia
Archaeologists have unearthed a pair of tiny bone fragments dating back almost 30,000 years and featuring minute designs carved by some of earliest Europeans. The thumbnail-sized bone fragments are engraved with parallel lines and match sim...
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Kingsland Observatory
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In a departure from its core activities of providing networking and IT support to SMEs, Cardiff-based TiGra Networks has set up and automated two astronomical observatories for Space Exploration Limited, based in County Roscommon, Ireland. The project has been developed over the past 18 months...
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Hawaiian Temple
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The ancient temple system on the Hawaiian island of Maui was built over the course of at least 500 years, with cycles of construction peaking in periods of political tension, a new study finds.
The study, the most detailed of its kind to date, will be published in a forthcoming issue of Current Ant...
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Sar Torbat
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Sar Torbat is an ancient site in Rasht, Gilan province, dating back 3,500 years, which has been registered on National Heritage List, an archaeologist told IRNA's English paper, the Iran Daily.
Vali Jahani said that an ancient cemetery and a mausoleum are located at the historical site.
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Apsara Reactor
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Scientists on Friday celebrated 50 years of India's first nuclear research reactor Apsara, which has played a key role in research in areas as diverse as forensic science and the study of lunar and meteorite fragments.
There has been no looking back for the country's atomic programme since Aps...
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Typhoon Prapiroon
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Hundreds of thousands of people were evacuated as Typhoon Prapiroon slammed into southern China Thursday, pounding an already battered area with more heavy rains and winds.
The storm packed 75 mph winds as it made landfall over a stretch of coastal Guangdong province, according to the state m...
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Johannesburg Snow
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Snow fell on Johannesburg, South Africa for the first time in 25 years as icy temperatures gripped vast swathes of the country.
"It is by no means freakish but I would certainly classify it as rare" - Kevin Rae, assistant manager of forecasting at the South African Weather Service in Pret...
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Tropical Storm Chris
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Tourists evacuated two small islands off the coast of Puerto Rico on Wednesday as Tropical Storm Chris gained strength in the eastern Caribbean and was expected to become the first hurricane of the Atlantic season.
The storm had top sustained winds of 65 mph as it skirted the northern Leeward Is...
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Hydrogel Microlenses
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When Hongrui Jiang looked into a fly's eye, he saw a way to make a tiny lens so "smart" that it can adapt its focal length from minus infinity to plus infinity — without external control.
Incorporating hydrogels that respond to physical, chemical or biological stimuli and actuate lens function,...
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