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The Iranian army will conduct practice launches of long-range ballistic missiles during large-scale military exercises on November 2-12 in southern Iran.
General Yahya Rahim-Safavi, commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps said the exercises will involve units of ground forces, t...
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Mark R. Schoeberl
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A prominent NASA scientist from Silver Spring has been charged in federal court in Maryland with using his position for the financial benefit of his wife, who owns a company that develops science exhibits and educational tools. Mark R. Schoeberl, an atmospheric scientist who has worked at the Godd...
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San Joaquin Valley
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U.S. launches satellite survey to measure extent of San Joaquin Valley sinking Scientists suspect that parts of the San Joaquin Valley have started to sink again after years of stability, a troubling development that geologists say can be traced to increased pumping of groundwater. To measure th...
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Haast's Eagle
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Extinct, giant eagle was a fearsome predator Before humans colonised New Zealand about 750 years ago, the largest inhabitants of the islands were birds unlike those anywhere else in the world. Giant, flightless birds known as moa were the main plant-eaters, feeding both on the ground and in the bra...
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Google UFO
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Temples of Khajuraho
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Temples of the moon The temples of Khajuraho, with their unique rhythms in stone, embody a culture's vision of itself and its place in the universe... Read more Khajuraho is a village in the Indian state of Madh...
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Osmotic power station
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Energy from osmosis[url=http://www.nordicenergysolutions.org/inspirational/renewable-energy-whe...
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City of Crater
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The city of Crater lies within the crater of the old volcano and was the centre of commerce of Aden, housing many business institutions, shops and the dwellings of local inhabitants. See more
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Ancient China
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China's founding dynasty may just be a myth, say archaeologists. In a news report in the current Science, writer Andrew Lawler surveys a decade's worth of discoveries suggesting ancient China sprang from distinct regions, rather than possessing a single national culture some 4,300 years ago. &q...
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Inchcolm Dial
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Ancient dial solves time riddle A new discovery at an island abbey in the Firth of Forth has revealed the Augustinian canons who once lived there measured time using a mass dial. Conservationists working at Inchcolm Island found the remnants of a special sundial which they believe may have been carv...
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Mars junk
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As the first rays of summer sunshine glint off the frosted surface of Mars, scientists in California are preparing an ambitious search effort to locate a spacecraft that went missing there as it prepared to land six years ago.
If all goes according to plan, the carbon dioxide frost over the martian...
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George Alcóck
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Peterborough was the birth place of a legend of the astronomy world, George Alcóck MBE. George, who was born in the city in 1912, discovered five comets and five exploding stars. He has been described as "the greatest visual astronomer who ever lived under cloudy UK skies". [url=http://...
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Ave Kludze
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Ave Kludze: Ghana's rocket man He was not able to fulfil his childhood dream of being a pilot, but Ghanaian scientist Dr. Ave Kludze has arguably gone one better: developing and flying spacecrafts for NASA. The 43-year-old didn't enter orbit when controlling a NASA rocket to launch the Calipso envi...
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Suminia
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A 260-million-year-old fossil is the oldest known tree-dwelling creature, according to researchers. Scientists described the finding as the earliest evidence in the fossil record of an "opposable thumb". In the Royal Society journal Proceedings B, they described how the animal's...
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Robbie Waland
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A Dumfries-born scientist, the late Robbie Waland helped make it possible for Neil Armstrong to become the first man to walk on the moon. Mr Waland, who died in 1999 at the age of 90, was born in Leafield Road and went on to bring great advances in the study of astronomy. This included mapping the moons su...
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