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The Greens are calling on the federal and Western Australian governments to help save ancient Aboriginal rock art on the state's Burrup Peninsula.
Greens leader Bob Brown says the development of gas processing factories are threatening almost a million separate art works.
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Women Taikonauts
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According to Chen Shanguang, director of the China Space Centre, China has at last begun to work on the selection process to train women taikonauts.
Studies about the impact of space flight on women have been initiated.
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Homo heidelbergensis
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El 'Homo heidelbergensis' era solo un poco más alto que el neandertal La reconstrucción de 27 huesos completos de extremidades humanas encontrados en Atapuerca (Burgos) ha servido para determinar la estatura de varias especies del Pleistoceno. Homo heilderbergensis, como los neandertales,...
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CU-Boulder Engineering Centre
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CU-Boulder's plans for $46M aerospace building stalled Construction plans for a $46 million building -- where students and scientists would research space exploration and clean energy production -- have been sitting idle for the past three years, awaiting state funding. It could be several ye...
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Mount Pinatubo
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This image of Mt. Pinatubo was taken by the Advanced Land Observing Satellite (ALOS) Daichi in November 2006. The figure looks dark green for the most part, indicating that the area is covered with forest or jungle. There is a large lak...
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Iranian space centre
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Iran space centre now '80% complete' Iran's new space centre, which will be used to launch both its own and other Islamic nations' satellites, is now 80% complete according to news reports. Currently, Iran has two space exploration facilities - a launch centre near Semnan, 200 kilometres east of T...
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Akash missile
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Development work on India's surface to air Akash guided missile has been completed and the system is ready for trials by the Indian Air Force.
"After the user trials, the missile will enter production and induction" - Defence Minister A K Antony.
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Office for Outer Space Affairs
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Mazlan Othman is the Director of the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (OOSA). Read more
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Clanfield Observatory
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Clanfield Observatory has come up with a host of events to coincide with the first International Year of Astronomy. This year, 2009, is the 400th anniversary of the first astronomical use of a telescope by Galileo to study the night sky. The Spring Moon Watch from March 28 to April 5 is the best time of y...
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Panama Quake
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A strong magnitude 6.0 earthquake occurred at 18:38:19 (UTC) on Saturday, August 27, 2005, South of Panama at a Depth of 10 km.
Location 6.678°N, 82.278°W
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Carleton University Herzberg Laboratories
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Canada's cutting-edge meteorite research may soon be on the rocks Rocks do fall from the sky, and Canada's meteorite experts have built themselves into a world power in the specialised field of studying them. Claire Samson is one of these people, a professor of earth sciences at Carleton Universit...
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Mike Brown
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The man who killed Pluto is coming to town to tell us how he did it. Mike Brown is the CalTech astronomer who discovered objects in the vicinity of Pluto that led to its demotion from "ninth planet" to "dwarf" in August 2006. He understands that some people are upset about that. [u...
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Homestake Gold Mine
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Far below the Black Hills of South Dakota, crews are building the world's deepest underground science lab at a depth equivalent to more than six Empire State buildings - a place uniquely suited to scientists' quest for mysterious particles known as dark matter. Workers began construction Monday i...
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A strong magnitude 6.4 earthquake occurred at 00:44:43 (UTC) on Friday, August 25, 2006, in the Salta region, WNW of Salta, Argentina, at a depth of 156.8 km.
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Christer Fuglesang
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With two months to go before he is hurled into space, Swedish astronaut Christer Fuglesang has been told to get his will in order.
"It isn't so simple to sort out your will here in the USA and it is a requirement that we must do so after the Columbia accident" - Fuglesang in his latest newslett...
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