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Florida ridges' mystery
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Sea level has not been as high as the distinctive ridges that run down the length of Florida for millions of years. Yet recently deposited marine fossils abound in the ridges' sands. Now, a University of Florida geologist may have helped crack that mystery. In a paper appearing June 1 in the June editi...
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Victoria-Suntech Advanced Solar Facility
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Advanced solar facility opens in Melbourne The Victoria-Suntech Advanced Solar Facility (VSASF) will officially be launched today in Melbourne, with the Victorian Minister for Environment and Climate Change, and Innovation, Gavin Jennings MLC, on hand to commemorate the event. The facility...
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Zhang Heng
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Among the most famous astronomers in ancient China, Zhang Heng of the East Han dynasty was considered the most brilliant. Zhang Heng, alias Pingzhi, was born in A.D. 78, in Shiqiao Town, Xie County, Nanyang Shire (about 16 miles north of the current Nanyang City) in Henan Province. At the age of 16, he...
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Windfarms
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Sailing ships could harvest fuel from the oceans A fleet of sailing ships could harvest energy from the wind blowing over the vast tracts of ocean too far from the shore for wind turbines, a scheme unveiled last month claims. The ships would turn wind power into hydrogen, which would be stored on board...
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Aurora Astro Products
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Aurora Astro Products Aurora Astro Products is closing down at the end of this month (5/29/10) after 3½ years in business. Read more
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Northwest Passage Drive Expedition
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Mars Institute "Moon-1" Humvee Rover reaches Devon Island, High Arctic An international team of researchers led by Mars Institute scientist Dr. Pascal Lee successfully reached Devon Island, High Arctic, on Sunday, 16 May, 2010 after a 13-day, 150 km vehicular journey from Cornwalli...
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Foucault's pendulum
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The Foucault pendulum, or Foucault's pendulum, named after the French physicist Léon Foucault, was conceived as an experiment to demonstrate the rotation of the Earth. Read more
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Simon Stevin
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Simon Stevin (1548/49 - 1620) was a Flemish mathematician and engineer. He was active in a great many areas of science and engineering, both theoretical and practical. Read more
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Mesoamerican pyramid
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Archaeologists in southern Mexico announced Monday they have discovered a 2,700-year-old tomb of a dignitary inside a pyramid that may be the oldest such burial documented in Mesoamerica. The tomb held a man aged around 50, who was buried with jade collars, pyrite and obsidian artifacts and ceram...
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Andrei Yevgenyevich Zaitsev (1957-2010)
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Andrei Yevgenyevich Zaitsev died on the 5th May, 2010. Member of backup crew for Soyuz-TM 5, never flew in space. Read more
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Lake Tanganyika
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Lake Tanganyika, the second oldest and second deepest lake in the world, is now at its warmest in 1,500 years, threatening the fishing industry on which millions of lives depend, scientists said today. The evidence comes from cores drilled into sedimentary layers in the lake bottom that point to cl...
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Jean-Pierre Lumentin
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A big name in the world of science, Jean-Pierre is an astrophysicist at the Paris-Meudon Observatory and research director at the French CNRS (The National Centre for Scientific Research). Specialised in black holes and cosmology, he has not only won countless academic awards but the 58-year-ol...
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Challenger Learning Centre
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San Antonio has a rich aviation and space heritage. Nowhere was that heritage more visible than at the Challenger Learning Centre of San Antonio, formerly located at Brooks City-Base. The San Antonio centre, one of more than 40 around the world, is the outgrowth of an effort by the families of the sev...
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Copepod
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The strongest animal in the world The world's strongest animal, the copepod, is barely 1 mm long.It shows that copepods - in relation to their size - are more than 10 times as strong as has been previously documented for any other animal. The worlds strongest animal, the copepod, is barely 1 mm long. It...
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Book of Fixed Stars
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JCU researcher seeks inspiration in the stars More than 1000 years before NASA's Hubble Space Telescope was sent into orbit to study the stars, a Muslim Persian astronomer had them thoroughly mapped. In world-first, a James Cook University PhD student has translated an ancient Arabic manuscript...
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