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Lake Atitlán
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Lake Atitlán, located in the Department of Sololá, has one of the most beautiful landscapes found anywhere in Guatemala. Its beauty has been compared with Switzerland's lakes. Along the margins of the lake, there are three imposing volcanos: Atitlán, Tolimán and San Pedro. The lake is located at 1...
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Slime mould
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Slime moulds can produce networks as efficient, cost-effective and resilient as railway networks designed by people, despite having no central control over what they build. The finding was made by an international team analysing networks created by the slime mould Physarum polycephalum and th...
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Mapungubwe
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The Ancient City of Mapungubwe Mapungubwe hill is 300 m long, broad at one end, tapering at the other. It is only accessible by means of two very steep and narrow paths which twist their way to the summit, and yet 2 000 tons of soil had been artificially transported to the very top by a prehistoric people o...
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The Royal Navy's newest super-submarine, Astute, will be launched at 11am today by HRH Duchess of Cornwall at the BAE Systems shipyard in Barrow, Cumbria. Astute is the first nuclear submarine to be launched in the UK for almost a decade. She has been built at BAE Systems Barrow shipyard under an init...
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Ailsa Craig
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Ailsa Craig is an island in the outer Firth of Clyde, Scotland where granite was quarried to make curling stones. The now uninhabited island is formed from the volcanic plug of an extinct volcano. Read more The riebeckite granite known as...
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Gulf of Corinth rift
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Formation of the Gulf of Corinth rift, Greece A study of the structure and evolution of the Gulf of Corinth rift in central Greece will increase scientific understanding of rifted margin development and the tectonic mechanisms underlying seafloor spreading and deformation of the Earths crust. T...
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AVIC Commercial Aircraft Engine Co.
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AVIC Commercial Aircraft Engine Co. (AVIC/ACAE) Tuesday started building a research and development centre to develop engines for domestic-made jumbo jets in Shanghai. The centre is responsible for developing home-made engines for the 150-seat C919 and a 250-seat model. The centre in Minhang...
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Iguanid Lizards
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Title: Tracing the Origins of Iguanid Lizards and Boine Snakes of the Pacific Authors: Brice P. Noonan1, and Jack W. Sites Jr. In 1947, when Thor Heyerdahl's Kon-Tiki hit ground in the Tuamotu archipelago, 102 days and 4,000 km from its point of origin in South America, he inadvertently provided sup...
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Dr Elizabeth Stanway
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Royal Astronomical Society honours young astronomer The Royal Astronomical Society has announced the recipients of the Society's medals and awards for 2010. The prizes honour individuals and groups who have made an outstanding contribution to astronomy and geophysics. Dr Elizabeth Stanway o...
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Araon Icebreaker
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Korea's first Icebreaker in NZ, then to Antarctica The Araon, a state of the art icebreaker and the first ever domestically produced in Korea, will provide additional support for Korea's expanding polar research activities which are led by the Korea Polar Research Institute (KOPRI). [url=http:...
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Regency-Superior Auction
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Taking place next weekend in St. Louis, this Regency/Superior auction is sure to be of interest to anyone who lived through the early days of space travel and exploration. In the auction are hundreds of nostalgic, space-related artifacts, both from the former Soviet Union/Russia and the United St...
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Baiyun Obo
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Baiyun Obo Rare-earth Iron Mine Expand (117kb, 800 x 600) Latitude: 41°47'50.69"N, Longitude: 109°57'57.21"E
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Ancient Woolworths Stores
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Title: Locations of Ancient Woolworths Stores follow Precise Geometrical Pattern Authors: Matt Parker Matt Parker, based in the School of Mathematical Sciences at Queen Mary, University of London, has analysed the locations of the 800 Woolworths stores to reveal precise geometric patterns. T...
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Lew Allen Jr. (1926 - 2010)
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A former director of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Lew Allen Jr., passed away Monday night, Jan. 4, at the age of 84, in Potomac Falls, Va. He led the laboratory from 1982 till 1990, during a period that included the launches of the Galileo mission to Jupiter, Magellan to Venus and the Infrared Ast...
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Noah's Ark
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Environmental activists are building a replica of Noah's Ark on Mount Ararat -- where the biblical vessel is said to have landed after the great flood -- in an appeal for action on...
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