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After a three-week crawl carrying 625 tonnes of cargo towards the highest ice in Antarctica, a Chinese expedition is expected this week to begin building a research base at Dome Argus, or 'Dome A', 4,093 metres above sea level. The station, called Kunlun and scheduled to open on 28 January, will gath...
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Molonglo observatory
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Work vital to Australia's bid to host the world's most ambitious radio telescope has been delayed by interference from Telstra's mobile phone network, scientists claim. The usefulness of the Molonglo observatory near Canberra, where test work for the $2billion global astronomy project is bein...
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Sentinel-Asia
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The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) held the First Joint Project Team Meeting for establishing a disaster management system called the "Sentinel-Asia"* in the Melia Hanoi Hotel in Hanoi, the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, on February 14 and 15, 2006.
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Regional Scale Nodes program
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The University of Washington's Regional Scale Nodes or RSN of the NSF OOI will extend continuous high-bandwidth (tens of Gigabits/second) and power (tens of kilowatts) to a network of instruments widely distributed across, above, and below the seafloor in the northeast Pacific Ocean. [url=htt...
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NASA And Gowalla Launch Partnership With Search For Moon Rocks NASA and Gowalla, a mobile and web service, have partnered to bring users one small step closer to the universe. The partnership populates Gowalla with NASA-related information and four virtual items -- moon rocks, a NASA patch, a spac...
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Afghanistan Quake
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A strong magnitude 6.7 earthquake occurred at 21:47:46 (UTC) on Monday, December 12, 2005, in the Hindu Kush Region, Afghanistan, 95-km NW of Chitral, Pakistan, at a depth of 228.2 km
Location 36.339°N, 71.105°E
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Kasatochi volcano
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The Alaska Volcano Observatory has issued a red alert for planes flying near the Kasatochi volcano in the Aleutian islands after it erupted explosively on the 7th August sending an ash plume more than 35,000 feet into the air, and forcing two biologists from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to evac...
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Big Bear Observatory
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The Big Bear Solar Observatory is located on a spit of land in the middle of Big Bear Lake, California, to exploits the excellent climatic conditions of Big Bear Lake, and reduce the image distortion, which usually occurs when the [url=http://www.bbso.n...
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Wollemi pine
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The Wollemi pine, (Wollemia nobilis), dating from the Jurassic period 200 million years ago and often described as a living fossil, was thought to be extinct until 1994 when a park ranger stumbled upon a stand of fewer than 100 trees in a remote gorge in Wollemi National Park, 200 kilometres w...
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European Technology Exposure Facility
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Microbes live 553 days outside ISS Professor Charles ****ell from the OU explains how the experiment worked A small English fishing village has produced an out-of-this-world discovery. Bacteria taken from cliffs at Beer on the South Coast have shown themselves to be hardy space travellers. The b...
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Holocene
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Title: Holocene drainage systems of the English Fenland: roddons and their environmental significance Authors: Dinah M. Smith, Jan A. Zalasiewicz, Mark Williams, Ian P. Wilkinson, Martin Redding and Crane Begg The roddons of the English Fenlands are fossilised silt and sand-filled tidal cree...
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Mauritius - Reunion Quake
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A strong magnitude 5.9 earthquake occurred at 19:58:03 (UTC) on Wednesday, April 4, 2007, in the Mauritius - Reunion region, 455 km NE of Rodrigues Island, Mauritius, at a depth of 10 km. Location 17.084°S, 66.761°E
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Ecuador Quake
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A strong magnitude 6.1earthquake occurred at 21:47:27 (UTC) on Friday, December 23, 2005, in Ecuador, 130 km East of Ambato, and at a depth of 192.2 km.
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A strong magnitude 7.0 earthquake occurred at 21:53:09 (UTC) on Tuesday, January 12, 2010, in the Haiti region, 9 km SSW from Carrefour, at a Depth of 10 km Location 18.451°N, 72.445°W
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Ancient climate
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Polar front shift and atmospheric CO2 during the glacial maximum of the Early Paleozoic Icehouse An international team of scientists including Mark Williams and Jan Zalasiewicz of the Geology Department of the University of Leicester, and led by Dr. Thijs Vandenbroucke, formerly of Leicester a...
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