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Crop forecasting
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The U.S. space agency says it is using satellite data to make accurate estimates of soil moisture, thereby improving global crop forecasting. National Aeronautics and Space Administration scientist John Bolten said the new modelling product uses data from NASA's Aqua satellite to improve the a...
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Akshai Baskaran
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Kennewick High sophomore Akshai Baskaran will have a near-Earth asteroid named after him after he won one of the top prizes at an international science fair. He competed at the 2009 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair in Reno, Nevada, the largest pre-college science and engineering...
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Expedition 313
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[url=http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/60-second-science/post.cfm?id=video-on-board-a-research-drilling-2009-05-27]Read...
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Mountain Skies Astronomical Society
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We attended the Mountain Skies Astronomical Society (MSAS) astronomy night through our home schooling Charter Sky Mountain. MSAS is located in Lake Arrowhead, CA. and is worth the ninety mile trip. It is a small non-profit observatory that has a full telescope that can allow you to see 300 times g...
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Project SERENDIP
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Just when SETI@home is celebrating its 10th anniversary, its older brother, Project SERENDIP, is getting a general makeover. In June of 2009 Dan Werthimer will lead a group of 8 students to the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico to replace the aging SERENDIP IV system which has been idle for the past...
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Dolmens of Moodabidri
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Few know that the historical town of Moodabidri is also famous for prehistoric artifacts - The Dolmens or Megalithic tombs. A dolmen is a type of burial site of prehistoric homo sapiens. Typically a dolmen consists of a single chamber which is closed on all sides with granite slabs. There will be a la...
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Calar Alto Observatory
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The quality of the night sky at Calar Alto Observatory has been extensively analysed using many different observational techniques, and with data gathered between 2004 and 2007. The conclusions indicate that Calar Alto is a dark site with a considerable fraction of useful nights for astronomica...
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The Future
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What the future looks like As the planet faces the most dangerous century in its 4.5bn-year history, astronomer royal Martin Rees looks into his crystal ball It would be foolhardy to venture technological predictions for 2050. Even more so to predict social and geopolitical changes. The most impo...
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Freemasons BIG Science Adventures DVD competition
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A Timaru Boys High School trio have blasted their way to first place in an astronomy competition, beating their peers from around the country and scoring a trip to Europe in July. Ryan Ammar, Matthew Keelty and Adam Simpson took out the top prize in the Freemasons BIG Science Adventures DVD competiti...
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Mount Kerinci
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Mt. Kerinci's volcanic activities have recently decreased although there are still tremors and a spew of black ashes. The head of the Mt. Kerinci observation post in Kersik Tuo village, Kayu Aro district in Kerinci regency, Jambi, Heru Prasetyo, said Sunday that small eruptions still happened ev...
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Cyclone Aila
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Strong winds and heavy rains from Cyclone Aila lashed eastern India and Bangladesh on Monday, killing at least 15 people and stranding thousands in their flooded villages. By the evening, however, the storm had gradually begun to weaken, G.C. Debnath, an official at the local meteorological offi...
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Tao Dao district megalith
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Researchers from the Vietnam Archaeology Institute and the Hanoi University of Culture have discovered a megalith of nearly 2,000 years old in Tao Dao district, Vinh Phuc province, in Vietnam. According to a report in VietNamNet, the megalith of over three meters long, over one meter wide, and nea...
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Lucknow Telescope
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The galaxies, the nebulas and the stars are no longer far from Lucknow. Indira Gandhi Planetarium has now made it easier to have a close look at the heavenly bodies that are light years away from us. It has got something that no other planetarium in the country has. A 14-inch telescope, installed insid...
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Cohunu Koala Park observatory
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Star-gazers will have a new place to discover the wonders of space with a deep space observatory being built at Cohunu Koala Park. The new facility will be used for day observations of the sun and for deep observations of space at night. The new observatory is expected to open before the end of this year...
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West Virginia State University Star Lab
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West Virginia State University Center for the Advancement of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics has recently become the owner of a Star Lab. WVSU CASTEM purchased the Star Lab through a grant from the WV Space Grant Consortium. CASTEM is only the second owner of a Star Lab in the stat...
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