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Scientists have found that there is a 70 percent chance of shutting down the thermohaline circulation in the North Atlantic Ocean over the next 200 years, with a 45 percent probability of this occurring in this century. The likelihood decreases with mitigation, but even the most rigorous immediat...
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YBJ Observatory
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YBJ Observatory was founded in 1990. It has hosted the Tibet ASγ Experiment (Sino-Japanese Cooperation) ever since. After 6 years’ preparation, the ARGO -YBJ Project (Sino-Italian Cooperation) started its detector installation in 2000. Both of them aim at the research of the origin of hig...
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Stella Navigation
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Will Pulsar Networks Guide Space Missions Through Milky Way? The European Space Agency's Ariadna initiative is studying a totally awesome navigation system that creams the one you'll find in your new Elite Cobra MkIII: they are examining the feasibility of navigation relying on millisecond pul...
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Scientists at The University of Manchester and the Manchester Metropolitan University have carried out the first comparative scientific study of ancient spiders trapped in amber more than 30 millions years ago.
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Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory
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A telescope in the mountains of Chile will give Clemson astronomers an extra eye on the sky as part of an agreement arranged with 10 American colleges and universities. The Southeastern Association for Research in Astronomy (SARA), of which Clemson is a member, has invested about $250,000 to refur...
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Mount Batur
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Bali's Volcanic Mt Batur Put on Alert Status Bali's easily accessible Mt. Batur volcano has had its status raised from "normal" to "alert" (Waspada) due to elevated levels of hot gas emissions and increased seismic activity. [url=http://www.balidiscovery.com/message...
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Dyson Spheres
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The Best Way to Find Aliens: Look for Their Solar Power Plants In 1960, mathematician, physicist, and all-around genius Freeman Dyson predicted that every civilisation in the Universe eventually runs out of energy on its home planet, provided it survives long enough to do so. Dyson argued that thi...
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Pavel Popovich
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Cosmonaut Pavel Popovich who piloted the Vostok-4 spacecraft on 12-15th August, 1962, and commanded the Soyuz-14 mission on 3-19th July, 1974, has died in hospital in the Crimean city of Hurzuf, where he had been taken following a stroke. A Mars-crossing asteroid (8444 Popovich) and an Antarctic...
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Peruvian explorers have discovered the fossilized remains of a giant, 14 meter long crocodile deep in the Amazon jungle, lending credence to a theory that the world's largest rain forest was once a huge inland sea.
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Carnarvon Tracking Station
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Carnarvon's a Buzz The second man to set foot on the moon, American astronaut Buzz Aldrin, will touch down in the Western Australian town of Carnarvon today to officially open a new Space and Technology Museum. The museum commemorates the Carnarvon Tracking Station which was involved in the NASA s...
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Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
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The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, or JAXA, is Japan's national aerospace agency. Through the merger of three previously independent organisations, JAXA was formed on 1 October 2003, as an Independent Administrative Institution administered by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Spor...
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H-IIB Launch Service
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The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries LTD. (MHI) have agreed to privatise the H-IIB launch service. JAXA will procure launch and transportation services from MHI when a payload is launched by the H-IIB Launch Vehicle. Source JAXA
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Ladd Observatory
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The Ladd Observatory is an astronomical observatory of Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, USA. Read more Latitude: 41°5020N, Longitude: 71°2357W
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Mars Program Planning Group
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NASA Hosts Teleconference on Status of Mars Program Options[url=http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2012/sep/HQ_M12-190_MPPG_Report...
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Roque de Los Muchachos Observatory
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A huge forest fire is out of control on the island of La Palma in the Canary Islands, forcing the evacuation of up to 4,000 people, including tourists. There are fears the flames could spread to an observatory housing the world's largest telescope. [url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/low/world/europ...
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