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Virtual ant colony
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Ground-penetrating radar has been used to non-destructively map an ant colony for the first time. The results have been digitised and fed into an interactive visualisation system so that the colony can be explored virtually. The system is inexpensive compared to earlier approaches and could be u...
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Canary Islands submarine canyon
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One of the worlds deepest-diving robot submarines has returned from its first mission with spectacular images of giant holes on the seabed and evidence of underwater avalanches. Autosub6000, which was developed by British scientists, descended almost three miles below the surface to investig...
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Ocean Observatories Initiative
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Scientists and engineers from WHOI and the University of Washington have successfully completed the first scientific mission with Sentry, a newly developed robot capable of diving as deep as 5,000 meters into the ocean. The vehicle surveyed and helped pinpoint several proposed deep-water site...
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Stirlingshire Lights
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Chinese Arctic expedition
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Chinese scientists are gearing up for a trip to the North Pole in mid-July to explore the arctic.
The expedition will last six months and include research into polar meteorology, environmental monitoring and sea ice.
A team of 21 Chinese scientists will soon leave for the Yellow River Statio...
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Havhingsten
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The world's largest Viking ship will sail from Denmark to Norway next week, but it's too big to navigate its way into the Oslo Fjord. The upcoming voyage of the Havhingsten will thus end at Tønsberg, about a 90-minute drive south of the capital but a city rich in its own Viking history.
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Glasgow Science Centre
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Save Glasgow Science Centre The job cuts for Scotlands most prestigious centre for popularising science is facing a 40% cut in its budget over the next three years. Read more
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Snowy River
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A sparkling subterranean crystalline calcite formation known as Snowy River is no longer a dry riverbed. Scientists say Snowy River, discovered in 2001, is now running with between a half-foot to a foot-and-a-half of water. The formation, which is not open to the public, was discovered by a U.S. Bu...
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Wind Farm
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Torhousekie Stone Circle
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The Standing Stones of Torhouse are a circle of nineteen granite boulders on the land of Torhouse, three miles west of Wigtown, Scotland. Also known as the Standing Stones of Torhouse this 19m diameter stone circle consists of some 19 large granite boulders, ranging in height from 0.60m to 1.45m. Th...
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Caenorhabditis elegans eyes
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The tiny eyeless C. elegans roundworm, one of the most widely used animals in biological research, can detect flashes of light and responds to them by quickly wriggling away, a University of Michigan biologist and his colleagues have discovered. [url=http://www.ns.umich.edu/htdocs/release...
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Calcutta University
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Calcutta University (CU) is set to introduce an integrated course leading to a doctoral degree in association with the Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bangalore. The M.Tech-Ph.D course in astronomical instrumentation is the first full-fledged programme the university is launching in asso...
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Getting scooped
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Getting scooped is an ongoing occupational hazard for astronomers. A interesting idea pops into your head, or a significant peak starts to emerge in a periodogram, and you drop everything to do an analysis and write up your idea or discovery for submission. Huge Applet, Unsearchable Terrestrials...
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Save the rainforest
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Britain and Norway created a £108m fund yesterday to help save the world's second largest rainforest, central Africa's Congo basin, with the help of satellite imaging technology. The fund is intended to provide African governments and people living in the rainforest with a viable alternative to...
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Mt. Orliakas
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European astronomers in search of "dark regions" on the planet to make observations of the universe easier, away from the artificial light emissions of major urban centres, have discovered the Pindos mountain range running across much of the Epirus province, with Mt. Orliakas in Grev...
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