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This year Thomas Pola, professor for theology at TU Dortmund, and his team have continued the excavations in the East Jordan Land. With their findings on the mountain Tall adh-Dhahab (West) in the Jabbok Valley the archaeologists could substantiate one assumption: everything points to the fact t...

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Most modern-day groups of beetles have been around since the time of the dinosaurs and have been diversifying ever since, says new research out in Science today (Friday 21 December 2007). There are approximately 350,000 species of beetles on Earth, and probably millions more yet to be discovered,...

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An enormous sea anemone from 2500m depth on the East Pacific Rise was reported in in the journal Marine Biology. The monstrous actiniarian Boloceroides daphneae is abundant on boulders, cliffs, and rocky outcrops near hydrothermal vent sites but not on them, writes author Marymegan Daly from Ohi...

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A petition calling on Prime Minister Gordon Brown to halt planned cuts in physics and astronomy has attracted more than 3,500 names in its first day. The "e-petition" website launched to voice scientists' opposition to the £80 million cuts will remain open until February 18 next year. A...

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Dunnottar Castle is located on a 50 metres high rocky gabbro promontory jutting out of the east coast of Scotland, into the North Sea. The site, is connected by a small isthmus to the mainland. Given the defensive quality of the site, it has been home to fortifications of one sort or another for most o...

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Yesterday, a special exhibition exploring the history of surgery was launched at Aberdeen's Maritime Museum. The exhibition features the archaic tools of the trade and the development of medical treatments like anaesthesia. The exhibition will run until March 15 2008. For more information con...

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In Tikal, the ancient Mayan city in northern Guatemala, dawn is not seen it is heard. First, a roar. Then a responding roar, then another and another not from jaguars, but from howler monkeys, proclaiming their territory. A squeaking counterpoint begins: the raccoonlike coatimundi greeting one a...

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Canada's government Wednesday set aside 25 million acres of wilderness 11 times the size of Yellowstone National Park for conservation, a move that environmentalists called one of North America's most important acts of nature preservation. The land in Canada's Northwest Territories is in thre...

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Ralph Asher Alpher, 86, a physicist whose doctoral dissertation provided a feasible formula for the scientific idea of the big bang but whose work was forgotten until after other scientists won the Nobel Prize for the same idea, died of respiratory failure Aug. 12 at an acute care facility in Austin...

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Can the monkey god save Rama’s underwater bridge? Hindu groups are launching an international campaign today to halt India’s plans to create a shipping channel by dredging the sea between India and Sri Lanka. They say that the project will destroy an ancient chain of shoals known as [url=http://en...

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Malaysias second astronaut Mejar Dr Faiz Khaleed was injured in the left hand after he and a friend were attacked by two men in front of his house in Taman Mawar, Ampang, here early today. He is in stable condition at the Gleneagles Medical Centre here. [url=http://www.nst.com.my/Current_News/NS...

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Astronomy students at Ringmer Community College students have been given a telescope. Astronomer Robert Turner, a former member of Lewes Astronomers, donated the telescope to the college. The telescope had been on loan to Ringmer Community College for a number of years and now the college will be...

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The wrecks of thousands of aircraft that crashed in the sea off the English coast are to be located in a major new mapping of the seabed. Most went down during the Second World War and the project, being co-ordinated by English Heritage, is to ensure their final resting places are protected. [url=http...

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There are unknown creatures lurking under the windswept islands of the Aleutians, according to a team of scientific divers from the University of Alaska Fairbanks. This summer, while completing the second phase of a two-year broad scientific survey of the waters around the Aleutian Islands, sci...

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	Tall adh-Dhahab (Preview) This year Thomas Pola, professor for theology at TU Dortmund, and his team have continued the excavations in the East Jordan Land. With their findings on the mountain Tall adh-Dhahab (West) in the Jabbok Valley the archaeologists could substantiate one assumption: everything points to the fact t...	Blobrana	0	Dec 22 15:50 2007 by Blobrana
	Beetles Insect (Preview) Most modern-day groups of beetles have been around since the time of the dinosaurs and have been diversifying ever since, says new research out in Science today (Friday 21 December 2007). There are approximately 350,000 species of beetles on Earth, and probably millions more yet to be discovered,...	Blobrana	1	Dec 22 03:11 2007 by Blobrana
	Sea anemone (Preview) An enormous sea anemone from 2500m depth on the East Pacific Rise was reported in in the journal Marine Biology. The monstrous actiniarian Boloceroides daphneae is abundant on boulders, cliffs, and rocky outcrops near hydrothermal vent sites but not on them, writes author Marymegan Daly from Ohi...	Blobrana	0	Dec 21 17:47 2007 by Blobrana
	Astronomy petition (Preview) A petition calling on Prime Minister Gordon Brown to halt planned cuts in physics and astronomy has attracted more than 3,500 names in its first day. The "e-petition" website launched to voice scientists' opposition to the £80 million cuts will remain open until February 18 next year. A...	Blobrana	0	Dec 21 13:06 2007 by Blobrana
	Dunnottar Castle (Preview) Dunnottar Castle is located on a 50 metres high rocky gabbro promontory jutting out of the east coast of Scotland, into the North Sea. The site, is connected by a small isthmus to the mainland. Given the defensive quality of the site, it has been home to fortifications of one sort or another for most o...	Blobrana	1	Dec 17 01:19 2007 by Blobrana
	Medicine (Preview) Yesterday, a special exhibition exploring the history of surgery was launched at Aberdeen's Maritime Museum. The exhibition features the archaic tools of the trade and the development of medical treatments like anaesthesia. The exhibition will run until March 15 2008. For more information con...	Blobrana	0	Dec 16 12:34 2007 by Blobrana
	Tikal Temple Temple (Preview) In Tikal, the ancient Mayan city in northern Guatemala, dawn is not seen it is heard. First, a roar. Then a responding roar, then another and another not from jaguars, but from howler monkeys, proclaiming their territory. A squeaking counterpoint begins: the raccoonlike coatimundi greeting one a...	Blobrana	0	Dec 15 19:23 2007 by Blobrana
	National Park (Preview) Canada's government Wednesday set aside 25 million acres of wilderness 11 times the size of Yellowstone National Park for conservation, a move that environmentalists called one of North America's most important acts of nature preservation. The land in Canada's Northwest Territories is in thre...	Blobrana	0	Nov 28 10:34 2007 by Blobrana
	Ralph Asher Alpher Person (Preview) Ralph Asher Alpher, 86, a physicist whose doctoral dissertation provided a feasible formula for the scientific idea of the big bang but whose work was forgotten until after other scientists won the Nobel Prize for the same idea, died of respiratory failure Aug. 12 at an acute care facility in Austin...	Blobrana	1	Nov 27 20:39 2007 by Blobrana
	Adam’s Bridge Archaeology (Preview) Can the monkey god save Rama’s underwater bridge? Hindu groups are launching an international campaign today to halt India’s plans to create a shipping channel by dredging the sea between India and Sri Lanka. They say that the project will destroy an ancient chain of shoals known as [url=http://en...	Blobrana	9	Nov 25 21:35 2007 by Blobrana
	Dr Faiz Khaleed Person (Preview) Malaysias second astronaut Mejar Dr Faiz Khaleed was injured in the left hand after he and a friend were attacked by two men in front of his house in Taman Mawar, Ampang, here early today. He is in stable condition at the Gleneagles Medical Centre here. [url=http://www.nst.com.my/Current_News/NS...	Blobrana	0	Nov 22 14:06 2007 by Blobrana
	Minkie whale stranded Whale (Preview) [url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/low/scotland/north_eas...	Blobrana	3	Nov 21 15:37 2007 by Blobrana
	Ringmer Community College (Preview) Astronomy students at Ringmer Community College students have been given a telescope. Astronomer Robert Turner, a former member of Lewes Astronomers, donated the telescope to the college. The telescope had been on loan to Ringmer Community College for a number of years and now the college will be...	Blobrana	0	Nov 17 19:39 2007 by Blobrana
	Crashed aircraft (Preview) The wrecks of thousands of aircraft that crashed in the sea off the English coast are to be located in a major new mapping of the seabed. Most went down during the Second World War and the project, being co-ordinated by English Heritage, is to ensure their final resting places are protected. [url=http...	Blobrana	1	Nov 15 23:54 2007 by Blobrana
	New species (Preview) There are unknown creatures lurking under the windswept islands of the Aleutians, according to a team of scientific divers from the University of Alaska Fairbanks. This summer, while completing the second phase of a two-year broad scientific survey of the waters around the Aleutian Islands, sci...	Blobrana	0	Nov 3 11:59 2007 by Blobrana
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