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Mars Email a "Spectacular" Hoax An email promising a "Mars spectacular" on August 27 has astronomers seeing red, as scientists try to counter a seemingly unending Mars hoax. The anonymous message from an unknown part of the globe says that the red planet " ... will look a...
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The French space agency is to publish its archive of UFO sightings and other phenomena online, but will keep the names of those who reported them off the site to protect them from pestering by space fanatics.
Jacques Arnould, an official at the National Space Studies Centre (CNES), said the French...
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Faslane
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About 45 people have been arrested at a demonstration marking the end of a year of protests against nuclear submarines at the Faslane naval base on the Clyde. Organisers Faslane 365 said the Big Blockade was the final event in their non-violent protest at the base, which houses the UK's Trident missi...
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Creationism
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Primary school students are being taught that man and dinosaurs walked the Earth together and that there's fossil evidence to prove it. Fundamentalist Christians are hijacking religious instruction classes despite education experts saying Creationism and attempts to convert children to Chr...
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Cluster Munitions
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A new global treaty banning cluster munitions has come into force. The Convention on Cluster Munitions bans the stockpiling, use and transfer of virtually all existing cluster bombs, and also provides for the clearing up of unexploded munitions. It has been adopted by 108 states, of which 38 have r...
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Cappadocia
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About 25 million years ago, volcanoes of Erciyes, Hasandag and Melendiz mountains erupted and covered Cappadocia with a layer of tuff. Over millennia, this tuff layer gradually wore off and produced formations that has inspired cave art in this region. Kizilirmak river and its streams, cut deep i...
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Vikas Arya
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ISRO scientist drugged, robbed of crucial data One sip from a soft drink bottle cost him dear. 25-year-old Vikas Arya, a scientist from the Astronautical Society of India (ASI), a part of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), was drugged and robbed in Delhi while on his way to Haridwar on Tu...
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Gallery of Creation Museum
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"The Gallery of Creation" Museum by Joseph Hurt Studio to be Liquidated at Public Auction
Higgenbotham Auctioneers International (HAI) announced recently that they have been engaged to liquidate the "Gallery of Creation" Museum created by Joseph Hurt Studio, Inc. The m...
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Pied Piper of Hamelin
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Anno 1284 am dage Johannis et Pauli war der 26. junii Dorch einen piper mit allerlei farve bekledet gewesen CXXX kinder verledet binnen Hamelen gebo[re]n to calvarie bi den koppen verloren Read more
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Leonid Kizim (1941-2010)
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Leonid Denisovich Kizim (August 5, 1941 - June 14, 2010) was a Soviet cosmonaut of Ukrainian descent who was twice named a Hero of the Soviet Union (December 10, 1980 and October 2, 1984). Kizim was born in Krasnyi Lyman, Donetsk Oblast, Ukrainian SSR. [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leoni...
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Russian submarine Severodvinsk
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K-329 Severodvinsk is a Russian nuclear attack submarine of the Graney class. The construction of the submarine was started in 1993 and was launched on June 15, 2010. The submarine could be ready for missile test launching soon after. The sub is expected to begin operational service with the Russi...
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John Beddington
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Professor John Beddington, the UK goverment's chief scientific adviser, has received a knighthood in the Queen's Birthday Honours list. He attracted media attention last year when he said the world faced a "perfect storm". He was referring to the impact of climate change on food, ener...
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Nicholas Suntzeff
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There are a limited number of people who can say that they have saved Alan Alda's life or went to high school with Robin Williams. In addition, a select group of astrophysicists and astronomers can lay claim to the discovery of 70 percent of the universe. In the scope of Nicholas Suntzeff's life, he has...
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Conrad M. Bardwell (1926-2010)
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It is with regret that we note the death earlier today of C. M. Bardwell, who served as Assistant Director of the Central Bureau during 1978-1989 (when he was also Associate Director of the Minor Planet Centre, where he worked from 1957 onwards, originally in Cincinnati). [url=http://adsabs.harv...
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Shahram Amiri
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The Iranian government says it has evidence that one of its nuclear scientists was abducted and is being held in the US against his will. Shahram Amiri disappeared a year ago while on a pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia. A video broadcast by Iranian TV purports to show Mr Amiri saying he was kidnapped and is li...
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