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Brazilian Stonehenge
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Brazilian archaeologists have found an ancient stone structure in a remote corner of the Amazon that may cast new light on the region's past.
The well preserved site pre-dates European colonisation and is said to suggest a sophisticated knowledge of astronomy.
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Infrared Telescope Facility
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NASA astronomers have successfully demonstrated that a David of a telescope can tackle Goliath-size questions in the quest to study Earth-like planets around other stars. Their work, reported today in the journal Nature, provides a new tool for ground-based observatories, promising to accele...
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Two new New Zealand volcanoes
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Two new New Zealand volcanoes discovered. Geologists have discovered two new underwater volcanoes off the north-east coast of New Zealand. The Geologists were working in the Kermadec Arc, near Raoul Island, when they made their discovery. The volcanoes are relatively small, with crater...
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Popular Astronomy
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Have you ever wondered how 18th- and 19th-century scientists explained the universe? The Royal Observatory, Greenwich have recently published a new online section called Popular Astronomy, which reveals through their collections how genteel ladies, gentlemen and even the general public wer...
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Gran Canaria
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Spanish and French researchers have defined the age, location, size and geochemistry of the volcanoes of Gran Canaria during the Holocene, 11,000 years ago, in order to draw up a map of volcanic hazards for the island. The research shows that the area of greatest volcanic activity is one of the most h...
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Japanese scientists are attempting to explore the centre of the Earth.
Using a giant drill ship launched next month, the researchers aim to be the first to punch a hole through the rocky crust that covers our planet and to reach the mantle below. Using a giant drill ship launched next month, the re...
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Mystery Hill
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America's Stonehenge is an archaeological site consisting of a number of large rocks and stone structures scattered around roughly 30 acres (120,000 m˛ ) within the town of Salem, New Hampshire in the northeast United States. America's Stonehenge is open to the public for a fee. Part of a recreatio...
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Wilder Observatory
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A century of astronomy as seen through the Amherst College's Bassett Planetarium and Wilder Observatory "Some people come to the Wilder Observatory, and they look at Saturn through this telescope, and they say, 'Well, that's not very impressive.' That's because they're used to seeing phot...
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The American House Science Committee today favourably reported out four bills related to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
By voice votes, the Committee passed H.R. 50, National Oceanic and Atmosphe...
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LUCA
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The last universal ancestor (LUA), also called the last universal common ancestor (LUCA), or the cenancestor, is the most recent organism from which all organisms now living on Earth descend. Read more
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Tropical Storm Magda
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Tropical Storm Magda (08S) is forecast to make landfall in Australia probability for CAT 1 or above is 50% in about 24 hours probability for TS is 60% within 12 hours Kuri Bay (15.6 S, 124.5 E) probability for CAT 1 or above is 35% in about 24 hours probability for TS is 55% within 12 hours
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Aristotle
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Aristotle, who lived from 384 to 322 B.C., studied under Plato and tutored Alexander the Great. Later, in Athens, he taught in the grounds of the Lyceum, a public sports complex frequented by the city's young men. The remains of the ancient school where philosopher Aristotle taught his pupils nearl...
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Antarctic Expedition Blog
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My goals for the course are to introduce, raise awareness and start a dialogue about the amazingly diverse and versatile Antarctic microbial world - as this is, in essence, a land of the microbes. Microbial life in the sea ice and underlying waters of McMurdo Sound will be the subject of our studies th...
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Brimstone Pit
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A team of scientists returned this month with new and dramatic video and sound recordings of an ongoing volcanic eruption underneath the deceptively calm waters of Rota Island in the Northern Mariana Islands.
Video of billowing ash plumes, molten sulphur droplets, and red lava jetting from a...
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HATNet
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HATNet is a network of six small (11cm diameter), wide-field (8x8deg), fully-automated "HAT" telescopes. The scientific goal of the project is to detect and characterize extrasolar planets (exoplanets; those outside the Solar System), and also to find and follow bright variable st...
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