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YahClick
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Al Yah Satellite Communications Company PrJsc (Yahsat) today announced the launch of a revolutionary satellite broadband internet service YahClick that will be offered for the first time in many countries of the Middle East, North Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, and South West Asia. The service wi...
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Big Country Astronomy Club
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Joe Thompson has been gazing up at the stars for 45 years. The amateur astronomer started with a 6-inch telescope bought with savings from a newspaper route job, which he quit as soon as he had saved the $249. He now enjoys five telescopes of varying sizes and his very own observatory in his back yard. Th...
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Bandung Geology Museum
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The Bandung Geology Museum was established in 1929, under Dutch leadership, and from the get go was intended to be a place of research and learning. This continues to be reflected as the displays and guiding notes that run throughout the museum are informative, well-prepared and captivatingly pre...
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2008 Dutch Christiaan Huygens Science Award
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Astronomer Dr. Mariska Kriek has been selected for The Netherlands Christiaan Huygens Science Award for 2008 in the discipline of Space Science. Read more
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S. Krishnamurthy
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The name's Krishnamurthy. S. Krishnamurthy. He is 59 and has a dull designation: general manager safety. But he is the only man licensed to kill in midair the rockets of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) without seeking anybody's permission. [url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes....
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Radium & Energizer Advert
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Digital studio Radium, Santa Monica/San Francisco/Dallas, brings the Russian Space Station into living rooms in the artfully-animated :30 "Space Station" for Energizer Lithium Batteries, out of TBWA\Chiat\Day, LA. Radium's version of space rivals any seen in Hollywood blockbus...
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Shooting Star Inn
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Shooting Star Inn is not your typical B&B. It's all knotty pine and wrought iron, and innkeeper Tom Taylor has a university-research-grade telescope on the property. You can stay in the Cassini, Einstein or Galileo room, and the decor has a moon-and-stars theme. The inn runs on solar power supp...
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Lake Mondsee
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A geologist has found evidence that a vast rock slide may have set off a tsunami that buried a prehistoric village on Lake Mondsee in the Austrian Alps. According to a report in Spiegel Online, the theory that a severe rockslide in the Alps destroyed a prehistoric village, has been put forward by Alexa...
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Qinghai-Tibet Railway
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For centuries Tibet has been the embodiment of an exotic fantasy. A Buddhist Shangri-La, mysterious and remote, locked away within high mountains from the frenetic modernity of the outside world. But as the first train ever pulled up to Lhasa station on July 1 having hurtled across frozen tundra fo...
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Kintyre air base
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It began life as a base for airships in 1918 before becoming a naval air station with maritime patrol aircraft. Yesterday, uncertainty over RAF Machrihanish's future was finally removed when Defence Secretary Kevan Jones announced that the Kintyre base was "surplus to defence requirement...
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Yorkshire dinosaur footprint
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An operation to remove a 160-year-old dinosaur footprint from a Yorkshire beach has been successfully completed by divers of Scarborough SAC. The 66cm-long fossilised print, embedded in a 300kg sandstone boulder, was lifted from the beach at Burniston by the club's members.
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Coastal defences
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Scientists at the University of Liverpool have tested an 'invisibility cloak' that could reduce the risk of large water waves overtopping coastal defences. Mathematicians at Liverpool, working with physicists at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) and Aix-Marseille Univ...
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Laser pens face sales crackdown
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The internet trading companies eBay and Amazon are removing high-powered green laser pens from sale on their sites. The move follows a BBC investigation which found some of these potentially dangerous products were being sold irresponsibly by individual traders. [url=http://news.bbc.co.uk...
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Thule people
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Adam Solomon
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Adam Solomon: A Young Astrophysicist Studies Old Dwarfs Brown dwarfs are basically failed stars. In normal stars, the swirling balls of gas present during the star's formation become so big that they press in on themselves, forming a central core that is dense enough to cause hydrogen atoms to fuse...
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