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Oxford
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Oxford: Heaviest place in Britain. It is best known as the city of dreaming spires. But now Oxford has a new accolade for its tourist guide books it is officially the heaviest place in Britain. Underneath its famed colleges, the earth in the city weighs an impressive 140billion tonnes per square kilo...
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Artemis Amarysia
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Near Amarynthos (Euboea, Greece), a joint excavation by the Swiss School and the 11th Greek Ephorate brought to light the foundations of a large building, possibly belonging to the renowned sanctuary of Artemis Amarysia. In September, a team of Swiss and Greek archaeologists led by Denis Knoepfl...
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Arctica islandica
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A clam dredged from Icelandic waters had lived for 400 years - is this the longest-lived animal known to science? Can you imagine living for four centuries? A team of scientists from Bangor University's School of Ocean Sciences believe they have found an animal which did just that, a quahog clam, Arc...
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Frunze coalmine
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Rescuers have evacuated about 500 miners from the Frunze coalmine in the Lugansk Region in eastern Ukraine after a fire started in a tunnel at a depth of 870 meters.
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Women scientists
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James Watson begins his book about the discovery of the structure of the DNA, The Double Helix, with the story of a holiday meeting with Willy Seeds, a scientist who, rather than stop and speak to Watson, merely asks, How`s honest Jim? and walks on. Seeds was being sarcastic. Two years earlier, Watso...
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Carmacks Coal mine
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Residents in the village of Carmacks, Yukon, living near the former Tantalus Butte coal mine say they want something done about coal fires burning underground. Although the mine was abandoned in the late 1970s, coal seams have since been burning deep underground. Residents in the village complai...
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Cyberspace
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A British intelligence agency is seeking spies in cyberspace. GCHQ, the surveillance arm of British intelligence, said on Thursday it hopes to attract computer-savvy young recruits by embedding job ads within video games. Read more
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The iron pillar in Delhi
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The iron pillar next to the Qutab Minar in Delhi has been the centre of attraction for metallurgists from all over the world. For nearly 1600 years, it has been standing undaunted under the open skies, during all type of weather conditions. In so many years, it has not rusted; this has been a matter of su...
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Money
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Scientists have come up with a new currency designed to be used by inter-planetary travellers. It is called the Quasi Universal Intergalactic Denomination, or Quid. It is designed to withstand the stresses of space travel and has no sharp edges or chemicals that could hurt space tourists. [url=ht...
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Ancient Arabic boat
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A boat that plied the coast of the Holy Land 1,300 years ago carrying fish, carobs and olives is helping researchers better understand a little-known period in the region's history. The boat, discovered in a coastal lagoon near the northern city of Haifa, dates from the early 8th century, not lo...
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Lotschberg tunnel
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With all the tunnels that pierce them, the Swiss Alps have often been likened to an enormous Swiss cheese. That comparison was awakened in recent months when a 22-mile rail tunnel was opened near this Alpine town. Costing $3.5 billion, the tunnel supplements a 19th-century tunnel through the Lötsc...
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Free access
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The New York Times will stop charging for access to parts of its Web site, effective at midnight Tuesday night, reflecting a growing view in the industry that subscription fees cannot outweigh the potential ad revenue from increased traffic on a free site. The move comes two years to the day after The...
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Temple to Herakles
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Temple to Herakles identified Bronze vases, lead and clay objects, weapons, iron tools and figurines are among the harvest of finds from an archaic-era sanctuary on the hill of Spartia, Sesklo, in the prefecture of Magnesia. One outstanding find was a bronze, navel-shaped flask bearing the inscr...
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Steve Fossett
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A plane flown by record-breaking US adventurer Steve Fossett is missing in the Nevada desert, US federal aviation officials have said. Mr Fossett was reportedly last seen taking off from the private airfield at the Flying M Ranch near Yerington, Nevada, on Monday evening. [url=http://news.bbc....
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Blackboard
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Theorists cant help it: When asked to explain something, they reach for a piece of chalk. The language of math and physics seems to require a writing implement and a large vertical surface. For two centuries, scientists have turned to blackboards to grapple their thoughts into coherent equations a...
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