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Portland State University drop tower
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Portland State University drop tower defies gravity Mark Weislogel, a mechanical engineering professor, describes Portland State University's new drop tower to physics students from Tualatin High School. The tower, one of three in the nation, is used to create nearly weightless conditions fo...
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Shaw Prize
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Princeton scientists win Shaw Prize for helping map the universe Two Princeton University scientists have been recognized with a major international prize for their central role in a satellite experiment that has contributed to breakthroughs in better understanding the shape, makeup and age o...
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ILA 2010
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Antares shows off its unique abilities at ILA 2010 Antares is an elegant motorised glider - the only aircraft in the world capable of taking off using power from fuel cells alone. An idea conceived at DLR Hamburg just two years ago, it flew at the Berlin Air Show, ILA, for the first time on 8 June 2010. Two...
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Gerard P. Kuiper Prize
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NASA Ames' Cuzzi wins top honour for planetary work Jeff Cuzzi's office is buried deep in the maze that is NASA's Ames Research Centre. Its walls tell a lot about him. There are yellow sticky notes with important contact numbers and reminders, a poster of the Grand Tetons, a model of an asteroid, and a 1...
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Synthia
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J. Craig Venter Institute Seeks Monopoly Patents on the World's First-Ever Human-Made Life Form ETC Group Will Challenge Patents on "Synthia" - Original Syn Organism Created in Laboratory Ten years after Dolly the cloned sheep made her stunning debut, the J. Craig Venter Institute is...
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Kupwara district seismological observatory
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Kupwara district seismological observatory. "A seismological observatory is under construction near the Line of Control (LoC) in Tangdhar border belt of Kupwara district, which saw death and destruction during the October 8, 2005 earthquake" - state government official. [url=ht...
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Halifax Museum of Natural History
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Halifax Museum of Natural History A second new exhibit, Riding with Meteorites, features fragments of meteorites that fell in Canada in 1960, 1963 and 1994, as well as an over three-metre reconstruction of the biggest meteorite on Earth known to date - the Hoba meteorite - which still remains in its...
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USS George Washington
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USS George Washington (SSBN-598), the lead ship of her class of ballistic missile submarines, was launched on the 9th June 1959. Read more
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Tel Rehov
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Rehov (also Rehob) was an important Bronze- and Iron Age city located at Tel Rehov, an archaeological site in the Jordan Valley, approximately 5 km south of Beit She'an and 3 km west of the Jordan River. The oldest known archaeological finds relating to beekeeping were discovered at Rehov. In Sep...
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Send your Face into space
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Fly Your Face in Space NASA wants to put a picture of you on one of the two remaining space shuttle missions and launch it into orbit. To launch your face into space and become a part of history, just follow these steps: First...Select the Participate button at the bottom of this page and upload your imag...
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Mnemosyne
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Mnemosyne was the personification of memory in Greek mythology. This titaness was the daughter of Gaia and Uranus and the mother of the nine Muses by Zeus: * Calliope (Epic Poetry) * Clio (History) * Erato (Love Poetry) * Euterpe (Music) * Melpomene (Tragedy) * Polyhymnia (Hymns) * Terpsichore (Dan...
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Mississippi River
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Before the Mississippi: Ancient Rivers Flowed West Like vacationers taking a pit stop on a long road trip, zircon mineral grains from the northern Appalachians may have stopped off in Michigan before ending up on the Colorado Plateau, a new study suggests. The finding, reported in the June Geology...
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Asteroid Mnajdra
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Astronomical Society bids to have asteroid named after Mnajdra temples A suggestion for an asteroid to be named after Malta's famed Mnajdra temple is being considered by the International Astronomical Unions Committee on Small Bodies Nomenclature (CSBN), the Astronomical Society of Malta sai...
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Pacific islands
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Hunza Gojal Landslide Lake
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Authorities in Pakistan are warning of a catastrophe in the north-east of the country as a lake, created by a landslide, threatens to burst. The huge lake is growing in the foothills in the Himalayas, submerging villages and endangering thousands of people. [url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wo...
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