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Straits of Malacca shipwrecks
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Three shipwrecks including one resembling a Portuguese warship have been discovered in the Straits of Malacca.
Well-known Australian maritime archaeologist Dr Michael Flecker, who has carried out more than 100 explorations in numerous countries around the region, made the latest discov...
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Neelakurinji
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The tourist industry in Kerala, India, had been waiting for a long gap for the blooming of Neelakurinji (Strobilanthes Kunthiana). It is reported that the flower exhibits the beauty of the divine.
Neelakurinji is a shrub that used to grow abundantly in the shola grasslands of Western G...
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Taepodong-2 Launch
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A north Korean Taepodong-2 missile was test fired on July 4, 2006. According to preliminary reports, though, the missile failed in mid-flight soon after launch.
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Gamelands stone circle
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Between the villages of Orton and Raisebeck in Cumbria (England) lies Gamelands stone circle. Classified as an embanked stone circle, it is oval shaped (44.5 x 37.5 metres) and consists of 33 stones, now tumbled.
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Aftershocks
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Geophysicists in the US have found that the "aftershocks" produced by earthquakes are triggered by "dynamic" seismic waves from the main shock rather than changes in stress in nearby faults brought about by the rearrangement of the Earth's crust, as previously believed.
Karen Felzer of the US G...
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Dunbar Cave
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Prehistoric drawings found at Dunbar Cave.
People will get the first glimpse of a "great treasure of North America" beginning today.
A ceremony today at Dunbar Cave will mark the announcement and public display of more than 30 prehistoric cave drawings and etchings inside Dunbar Ca...
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Star-Dundee
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A Dundee company which has exported space technology to Nasa has won praise from the Scottish Executive.
Star-Dundee has also had its products taken up by the European Space Agency and the US Naval Research Laboratory.
The company was formed as a...
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Stone Circles of Senegambia
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The World Heritage Committee has approved the Stone Circles of the Senegambia to the World Heritage List.
Consisting of four large groups of stone circles that represent an extraordinary concentration of over 1,000 monuments in a band 100 km wide along some 350 km of the River Gambia. The four g...
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Sunda Strait Quake
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A strong magnitude 6.0 earthquake occurred at 10:57:36 (UTC) on Wednesday, July 19, 2006, in the Sunda Strait, Indonesia, 115 km South of T.-Telukbetung, Sumatra, at a Depth of 44.2 km.
Location 6.495°S, 105.415°E
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Dune Tunes
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For centuries, world travellers have known of sand dunes that issue loud sounds, sometimes of great tonal quality. In the 12th century Marco Polo heard singing sand in China and Charles Darwin described the clear sounds coming from a sand deposit up against a mountain in Chile. Now, a team of scienti...
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Tropical storm Bilis
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Tropical storm Bilis, the fourth to threaten China this year, is heading, with a speed of 15 kilometres per hour, northwestwards towards southeast China, The storm has wind speeds near the centre of 18 meters per second.
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China natural gas reserves
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China's Ministry of Land and Resources has confirmed the discovery of huge natural gas reserves in South China Sea.
In a circular released on Thursday, the ministry announced the discovery of natural gas reserves exceeding 100 billion cubic meters in a prospect well named LW3-1-1.
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Beijing Earthquake Monitoring Stations
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According to the Beijing Seismological Bureau, the Chinese capital is to construct 130 earthquake monitoring stations by the end of this year.
Currently the city has 70 monitoring stations. The extra monitoring stations will provide more accurate coverage for the region.
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Purdue Terrestrial Observatory
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Purdue University has initiated establishment of a world class real-time remote sensing ground station array, capable of receiving synoptic data from multiple panchromatic, multispectral, hyperspectral and radar sensors, at a wide range of spatial resolutions, aboard current and soon-to-...
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Ornithopter
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Yesterday Dr. James DeLaurier, an aeronautical engineer and professor emeritus at the University of Toronto's Institute for Aerospace Studies, fulfilled a lifelong dream, seeing his manned mechanical flapping-wing airplane, or ornithopter, fly — a dream first imagined by Leonardo da Vinci....
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