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Calders Geo
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'Biggest cave' is Calders Geo in Shetland at Esha Ness The biggest cave in Britain can be found in Shetland, a geologist has claimed. Jonathan Swale used a laser range-finder at the Calders Geo sea cave at Esha Ness. He said he found it to be 60ft tall and spanning a floor area of 5,600 square metres. Read...
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Stromboli
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Title: Simulations of the 30 December 2002 Stromboli tsunami, Italy
Authors: Tinti, S.; Pagnoni, G.; Zaniboni, F.; Armigliato, A.
Stromboli is a volcanic island in southern Tyrrhenian sea, Italy, known to have unstable flanks. The Sciara del Fuoco (SdF) on its NW flank is a...
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Baily's beads
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As the moon "grazes" by the Sun during a solar eclipse, the rugged lunar limb topography allows beads of sunlight to shine through in some places, and not in others. This effect is called Baily's beads in honour of Francis Baily who first provided an exact explanation of the phenomenon in 1...
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Scotland's highest mountain.
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Climbers will have to don deep-sea diving gear in future if they want to scale Scotland's genuinely highest mountain.
Geologists have established that, at 6,200ft, Rosemary Bank would tower well over Ben Nevis.
However, it is midway between the outer Hebrides and St Kilda, and its summit is...
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Adaptive optics
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Astronomers at the Royal Observatory in Edinburgh are working with medics to apply technology used to detect stars to treat diseases in the human eye. Adaptive optics is used by astronomers to cut out atmospheric turbulence around stars to produce clear images. The technology they use to cut out th...
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Seneca Guns
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What's being described as a big boom shook houses along the coast of North Carolina late Tuesday afternoon.
The boom could be felt from Ogden to Carolina Beach and in some cases Brunswick County. Some people described it as a loud bang. Others say it was like several explosions. They say their win...
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Appalachian mountains
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Bend in Appalachian mountain chain finally explained The 1500 mile Appalachian mountain chain runs along a nearly straight line from Alabama to Newfoundland - except for a curious bend in Pennsylvania and New York State. Researchers from the College of New Jersey and the University of Rochester n...
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Mount Rainier
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A magnitude 4.5 earthquake struck just before 8 p.m. about 7 miles east of Mount Rainier on Saturday night, but no injuries or damage were reported.
Scientists know Mount Rainier will eventually awaken as Mount St. Helens did in 1980. It could gradually build up and explode, or part of it may coll...
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Mount Fuji
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Japan is preparing for a possible eruption of Mount Fuji 100 kilometres from Tokyo, after increased seismic activity in the area. The government was alerted to the possibility that Mount Fuji might erupt for the first time in nearly 300 years after detecting a rise in the incidence of moderate earth...
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Gran Sasso National Laboratory
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The Gran Sasso National Laboratory, a particle physics research centre 15 km from L'Aquila in central Italy, has survived intact the earthquake that destroyed the historic town on 6 April, and killed at least 180 people. "Gran Sasso labs and experiments have not suffered consequences of the...
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Seahenge
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Museum visitors will be able to experience more of the history of a remarkable Norfolk (England) monument next year - thanks to a cash windfall from the government. An exhibition of part of the Bronze Age timber circle, Seahenge, is set to be the crowning glory of a £1m redevelopment of King's Lynn Mus...
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Jocelyn Bell Burnell
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Jocelyn Bell Burnell, a woman on a mission to reveal the friendly face of physics Physicists love to talk about "paradigm shifts". Their discipline is littered with them: dramatic changes in thinking that fundamentally altered the way scientists look at the world. For Professor Jocel...
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Multi-Object Optical and Near-infrared Spectrograph
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Title: MOONS: a Multi-Object Optical and Near-infrared Spectrograph for the VLT Authors: M. Cirasuolo, J. Afonso, R. Bender, P. Bonifacio, C. Evans, L. Kaper, E. Oliva, L. Vanzi, M. Abreu, E. Atad-Ettedgui, C. Babusiaux, F. Bauer, P. Best, N. Bezawada, I. Bryson, A. Cabral, K. Caputi, M. Centrone...
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Calakmul
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Exterior walls on a "painted pyramid" buried for centuries in the Mexican jungle have revealed a series of unusual Maya wall murals, complete with hieroglyphic captions, providing archaeologists with a priceless look at day-to-day life in the Mayan empire during 620 to 700 AD. The mur...
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Iceberg B-31
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Iceberg bigger than Guam drifting from Antarctic glacier Scientists are watching an iceberg bigger than the island of Guam as it slowly moves away from an Antarctic glacier. NASA scientist Kelly Brunt said it is more a wonder than a worry and is not a threat to shipping or sea level rise. Brunt said the...
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