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The Queen Mary 2
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The Queen Mary 2 has arrived in Sydney ahead of a reunion of the Cunard's royal liners. Aboard Chris Butler, an astronomer from Buena Park, has since Feb. 5, been cruising the Pacific, and giving the planetarium show aboard the Queen Mary 2 as the liner crossed from San Francisco to Australia. Ma...
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Frog in Amber
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A Mexican researcher announced the rare find of a tiny tree frog completely preserved in amber on Wednesday that he estimates lived about 25 million years ago. The chunk of amber containing the 0.4-inch frog was uncovered by a miner in southern Chiapas states in 2005 and was bought by a private collec...
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Nalanda University
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Scientists from the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) have been asked to help explore ruins in and around the ancient Nalanda University in Bihar. P.K. Mishra, the superintending archaeologist of the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI), Patna circle, said the radar mapping would help...
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Etruscans
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A recent DNA-based survey suggests the roots of Etruscans, a pre-Roman civilization in Italy, lie in Anatolia. According to the research conducted by genetic scientists in Italy's Pavia University, the roots of Etruscans were in the ancient Lydian region in Anatolia. The scientists have...
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Extrasensory perception lab
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The extrasensory perception lab at Princeton University will be shuttered at the end of the month. The Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research laboratory will close after 28 years of studying ESP and telekinesis, research that embarrassed university officials and outraged the scientific co...
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Bangalore Airshow
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Some 500 aircraft companies from around the world have flocked to an air show in southern India hoping to cash in on the country's booming aviation sector. The five-day event at the Yelahanka air base in Bangalore will showcase a range of new civilian and military aircraft. India plans to buy 126...
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TOR-M1 missile
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According to the Iranian news agency ISNA, Iran has successfully tested the TOR-M1 air defence missile system recently supplied by Russia. The tests were part of military exercises that began in southern Iran Wednesday after Russia completed the delivery of 29 TOR-M1 anti-aircraft missile sys...
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Roman villagers
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Residents of a remote Chinese village are hoping that DNA tests will prove one of history's most unlikely legends - that they are descended from Roman legionaries lost in antiquity. Scientists have taken blood samples from 93 people living in and around Liqian, a settlement in northwestern Ch...
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Behar Dhap Temple
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Bangladesh archaeologists have discovered the remains of an ancient temple in Rajshahi area. Expert view is that the temple is at least 1500 years old. It was built during pre-Pal period. The temple is situated close to Basu Behar, one of the most important archaeological sites in Bangladesh, and a...
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Rafflesiaceae
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To their surprise, the plants, which have a one-metre-wide, blood-red, rotten-flesh stinking flower, belong to a family of plants bearing tiny blooms.
The Rafflesiaceae were tricky to place because of their unusual features, the team reports in the journal Science.
The botanists used DNA a...
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Signing up to dig into Thetford's past
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People interested in exploring Thetford's past, as well as finding out what the life of an archaeologist involves, can learn more at the Ancient House.
The Museum of Thetford Life is running a series of six evening talks, starting on Monday.
Each session, from 6pm to 8pm, covers Thetford's hist...
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Indian Weather
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North India is in the grip of a severe cold wave with several places in Punjab and Jammu and Kashmir experiencing sub-zero temperatures.
After several days of clear skies, the national Capital was on Tuesday enveloped in a thick blanket of fog as it woke up to a chilly morning with the temperature ho...
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Ancient Maya
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Archaeologists and NASA experts are using satellite images to find jungle-covered ruins that had been hidden almost literally right under their noses. The 21st-century technology, highlighted in the latest instalment of PBS’ “Nova ScienceNow,” led to the discovery of ancient Maya settlement...
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Biru 'e Concas
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Near the village of Sorgono, in Sardinia (Italy) lies what is probably one of the lesser known megalithic wonders of the world. An impressive Neolithic site of about 200 tall stones, 30 of them aligned east-west on a double row and the rest laying on the ground. This striking concentration of stones i...
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Aboriginal language
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Aboriginal languages may be much older than people think, argues a linguistic anthropologist who says they originated as far back as the end of the last ice age around 13,000 years ago. This challenges existing thinking, which suggests Aboriginal languages developed from a proto-language that s...
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