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British scientists have opened a new window on the Universe with the recent commissioning of the Visitor Instrument ULTRACAM on the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile.
ULTRACAM is an ultra fast camera capable of captur...
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Village Resource Centres
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Farmers of Northeast India can now interact with top scientists of the country and seek solutions to their problems related to farming, market, health and weather dynamics from their nearest Village Resource Centres (VRC). The Shillong-based North Eastern Space Application Centre (NESAC) in a...
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Shearman's Wath Henge
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An anti-flooding reservoir could be built close to a prehistoric henge in Lincolnshire. Environment Agency officers are to begin looking for sites to build new flood defences in a bid to protect Horncastle. Next month they will begin assessing land close to the River Bain in a pro-active effort to p...
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54th Russian Antarctic expedition
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The flagship of the Russian polar fleet, the Academician Fyodorov, will set out on a 200-day scientific voyage on November 5 as part of the 54th Russian Antarctic expedition. Read more
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Sofia National Museum of Natural History
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The National Museum of Natural History in Sofia (NMNHS) launched a new bilingual (in English and Bulgarian) website. The site is already available at www.nmnhs.com. It is expected that it will receive full functionality in the next two weeks. [url=http://www.nmnhs.com/news_en.php?id=09010...
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al-Hassan Ibn al-Haytham
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Isaac Newton is, as most will agree, the greatest physicist of all time. At the very least, he is the undisputed father of modern optics, or so we are told at school where our textbooks abound with his famous experiments with lenses and prisms, his study of the nature of light and its reflection, and th...
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Kashmir valley Quake
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An earthquake measuring 6.4 on the Richter scale rocked the Kashmir valley early on Sunday, jolting residents out of their sleep in panic. "A 6.4 quake struck the Valley at 1.53am on Sunday. The epicentre of the quake was located in the Hindukush region with latitude 36.5 degrees north and long...
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Leckhampton Hill
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Archaeologists have discovered new evidence of ancient ruins, medieval farming and a secret operations bunker on Leckhampton Hill. A team of experts from Gloucestershire made the exciting finds using latest imaging technology. They used hand-held pulse devices called magnetometers to measu...
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American Museum of Natural History
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Cuddle close with a loved one under the bright night skywithout the frostbite. Enjoy the faux sky of the Zeiuss Mark IX Star Projector indoors and see the current position of the planets, the moon and stars, and harder-to-spot phenomena like meteor showers and eclipses. Youll learn about the univer...
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Professor Wendy Hall
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A professor who invented a forerunner of the world wide web has been made a dame in the New Year Honours. Wendy Hall created the "open hypermedia system" Microcosm with colleagues after joining the University of Southampton computer science group in 1984. And in 1994 she became the unive...
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Brooks centrifuge
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The 2005 base-closure commission ordered that Brooks City-Base's historic centrifuge be dismantled and moved to Ohio, but after going around and around on the matter, the Air Force decided to leave it here. Now, the agency running City-Base is mapping big plans to market the centrifuge, which has...
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Dominion Observatory
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Canadas place in time The Dominion Observatory opened in 1905 as a showpiece with a 15-inch telescope, thick sandstone walls and a metal dome. It's prime focus wasn't the skies, though. It was charting the nation's official time and longitude. [url=http://www.ottawacitizen.com/Canada+plac...
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Passage graves
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Passage graves from an astronomical perspective Passage graves are mysterious barrows from the Stone Age. New research from the Niels Bohr Institute indicates that the Stone Age graves' orientation in the landscape could have an astronomical explanation. The Danish passage graves are most lik...
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Kyiv Astronomical Observatory
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With longer nights and clearer skies, winter is the time to read and watch stars. Most people think astronomers predict weather, compose horoscopes or count stars. In truth, they study life of the universe through the interaction of planets, stars and other solar objects. You can rub shoulders wit...
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Valentin Lebedev
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Renowned cosmonaut Valentin Lebedev, who set a world record for his stay in Earth's orbit, is rapidly losing his eyesight. "I suffered from a lot of radiation in space. It was all concealed back then, during the Soviet years, but now I can say that I caused damage to my health because of that fligh...
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