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Japan, France Satellite Parts Deal
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Japan, France to jointly develop satellite parts The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency and the French space agency Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES) have agreed to jointly develop key semiconductor components for use on satellites and were to formally sign a deal in Britain on Sunday,...
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Aiding Lake
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China's lowest inland point is 154.31 meters below the sea level, the State Bureau of Surveying and Mapping and the government of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region jointly announced here on Sunday. The figure means the lowest point at Aiding Lake in the northwestern [url=http://en.wikipedia.or...
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Landslide
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A huge landslide that began on Thursday in central China's Hubei province has destroyed houses and blocked a river, and the flow of mud and rock is expected to continue in the coming days. The landslide occurred in Badong county, near Qingjiang River, after rising water in a reservoir loosened the fo...
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Aleksander Wolszczan
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Polands greatest contemporary astronomer, Professor Aleksander Wolszczan, has declined an offer to become an honorary citizen of Torun, northern Poland. Torun was the birthplace of Polands greatest ever astronomer, Nicholaus Copernicus. [url=http://www.polskieradio.pl/thenews/huma...
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Hesketh Park observatory
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West Wales Astronomy Group
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The West Wales Astronomy Group, which meets every month to share experiences and use telescopes to seek out constellations and planets, has been campaigning to turn off street lights in Pembrokeshire for a while now in an effort to prevent light pollution. [url=http://www.westerntelegraph.co...
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Emdrive
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Chinese researchers claim they've confirmed the theory behind an "impossible" space drive, and are proceeding to build a demonstration version. If they're right, this might transform the economics of satellites, open up new possibilities for space exploration and give the Chinese...
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Sir Brian Pippard
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The condensed-matter physicist Sir Brian Pippard died on 21 September at the age of 88. Pippard was Cavendish Professor of Physics and head of the physics department at the University of Cambridge from 1971 until he retired in 1984. The physicist proved the existence of the Fermi surface. [url=htt...
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Cueva de las Espadas
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With lengths over 11m, the giant gypsum crystals found in Mexico's Cueva de los Cristales are a great natural wonder. Now, a Spanish-Mexican team thinks it can explain how these marvels acquired their immense form. The scientists studied tiny pockets of fluid trapped in the crystals and conducted...
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Tana River
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Kenya's longest river has suddenly changed course, threatening the livelihoods of thousands of people depending on it for water, a regional official says. More than 40,000 people in the African nation's southeastern region are affected by the Tana River's dynamic changes, Tana Delta District O...
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Mynydd Graig Goch
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Ithaca
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The island was said to be the home of Odysseus, whose 10-year journey back from the Trojan War is chronicled in Homer's epic poem the Odyssey.
Most people think the modern-day Ionian island of Ithaki is the location.
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Ancient Marine Invertebrate Diversity
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Diversity among the ancestors of such marine creatures as clams, sand dollars and lobsters showed only a modest rise beginning 144 million years ago with no clear trend afterwards, according to an international team of researchers. This contradicts previous work showing dramatic increases beg...
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Ancient sauna
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The Shetland island of Bressay will today (Tuesday) hold the first public display of its reconstructed a Bronze Age monument. The burnt mound is a 4,000 year old water heater located at Cruester in Bressay, one of the best preserved of the hundreds in Shetland. It became necessary to excavate and reb...
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Numeracy
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In a world without numbers youd think that counting would be all but impossible. However, new research by scientists at UCL Institute of Neurology says otherwise. Together with a team from University of Melbourne they studied children between the ages of four and seven from two non-English speaki...
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