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Dec 21, 2024 |
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Mysterious 4,000-Year-Old 'CD-ROM' Code Cracked
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A fired-clay disk from the Second Millenium B.C. may finally have had some of its markings decoded. The mysterious "Phaistos disk," found in 1908 in a palace called Phaistos on the island of Crete, contains symbols on both sides,
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Private Rocket Launches to International Space Station
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A commercial supply ship bound for the International Space Station is ready to launch from the Eastern Shore of Virginia tonight (Oct. 27), and you can watch it live. If you live on the U.S. East Coast, you might even catch a glim
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$400K Gold Nugget
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The term nugget doesn't quite do it justice. This thing is more like a whopper. A more than 6-pound chunk of gold sold over the weekend for $400,000, according to the San Francisco Chronicle.
An anonymous Bay Area buyer snatch
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What Will Winter Hold for Drought-Plagued California
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The state is now at the beginning of the fourth year of one if its worst droughts on record. The drought has been fueled by a spate of disappointing winter rainy seasons that have left meager snowpacks and diminished reservoir lev
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Revised Antarctic Sanctuary
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Australia said Monday it was hopeful of winning support for its plan to create a vast marine reserve off Antarctica, after revising the proposal to make it smaller.
Australia, France and the European Union first put forward a b
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To the Moon and Back: China Tests Space Program
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Up, up and away. Way away -- to the moon, in fact. China launched an experimental spacecraft early Friday that is scheduled to orbit the moon before returning to Earth, a first for the country's ambitious space program and conside
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New Generation Takes on Ancient Egypt
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Five years ago, if archaeologists digging up pharaonic ruins in Egypt found any human bones, they would usually throw them away. “Most Egyptian archaeological missions looked at human remains as garbage,” said Afaf Wahba, a yo
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WWII German U-Boat Recovered
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A World War II German U-boat, sunk during the Battle of the Atlantic more than 72 years ago, has been discovered off the coast of North Carolina, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced Tuesday.
The Germa
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Seattle's Suburban Airport
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The Navy needed an airport, and by being in the upper left corner of the country, Seattle was a natural place for it. They found a site out of town, and Seattle had one of its first airports. Nope, not Sea-Tac. Not Boeing Field, e
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Finding Fracking Fluids In The Environment
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New geochemical tracers can identify any hydraulic fracturing flowback fluids that could have spilled into the environment, according to field tests at a spill site in West Virginia and downstream from an oil and gas brine wastewa
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Lakes Around the World Are Rapidly Disappearing
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A few days ago, NASA posted startling satellite pictures of the Aral Sea in Central Asia, once the fourth biggest lake on the planet, which over the past 50 years has been virtually drained as a result of an ill-advised Soviet-era
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Angry, Rolling Cloud Is First New Type in 60 Years
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Undulatus asperatus isn’t some obscure anatomical structure next to your peritoneum, nor is it a minor character from the movie "Gladiator."
No, it’s actually a type of cloud formation that weather fanciers have proposed fo
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Possible Landing Sites Selected for Europe's ExoMars
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European space officials are eyeing four possible landing sites on Mars for a life-seeking rover set to launch toward the Red Planet in 2018. All of the potential ExoMars rover landing sites are located near the Red Planet's equat
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167,000 Kinds of Microbes Live in NYC's Central Park
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When you think of a place teeming with life forms, you usually think of the Amazon rainforest or some other wilderness. But Manhattan’s Central Park, located in the midst of the nation’s most densely populated city with 27,000
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The mystery of the ancient shipwreck
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In the azure waters off the rocky coast of Antikythera, a remote island in the Mediterranean with a population of less than 50, lies one of the most mysterious shipwrecks of all time.
In 1900, sponge divers from the Greek isla
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Ground Zero for HIV/AIDS Identified
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The deadly virus responsible for the global HIV/AIDS pandemic emerged around 1920 in the city of Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, according to new research that has relevance to the effort to understa
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Marble Door Revealed in Greek Tomb
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Archaeologists excavating the large and mysterious mound at the Kasta Hill site at Amphipolis, Greece, have unearthed a broken marble door, Greece’s Culture Ministry announced today.
Made from marble brought from the island o
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Beautiful View of the Wild Duck Star Cluster in Flight
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A spectacular new photo shows a cluster of stars whose brightest objects form a triangle that has been likened to a flock of ducks in flight.
The European Southern Observatory's La Silla Observatory in Chile captured the beauti
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Cargo Ship Is First to Solo the Northwest Passage
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Another Arctic milestone was reached this week when a cargo ship fortified against ice completed a solo trip through the hazardous Northwest Passage.
The MV Nunavik, owned by shipping firm Fednav and built in Japan, left Canada
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'Bolt from the Blue' Caught on Camera
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Lighting can strike the ground miles away from the towering thunderstorms that produce it, a phenomenon called a "bolt from the blue."
A high-speed camera run by the University of Florida's Lightning Research Laboratory caught
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Titan's Polar Vortex is Packed with Toxic Cyanide
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Since NASA’s Cassini mission discovered the swirling polar vortex in Saturn’s moon Titan’s atmosphere, scientists have been fascinated by this apparently seasonal phenomenon. Now, scientists analyzing Cassini data have found
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cancer sufferer embarks on inspirational sailing trip
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A young cancer sufferer from Treharris took part in an inspirational sailing trip with the Ellen MacArthur Cancer Trust. Thomas Harman, 11, joined the voyage along with 16 other youngsters between the age of eight of 18 who are in
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Around the Pier
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Octavio Aburto-Oropeza, marine biologist at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego, has always had a dream of catching science up to the speed of communication.
“Nowadays, how fast is communication happening? In
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Dying brain cells cue new brain cells to grow in songbird
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Brain cells that multiply to help birds sing their best during breeding season are known to die back naturally later in the year. For the first time researchers have described the series of events that cues new neuron growth each
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Kilian Jornet & Emelie Forsberg’s mountain epic
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Kilian Jornet and Emelie Forsberg are two of the most talented and passionate mountain runners ever to grace the sport. And now they have turned their hands (and feet) to organising their own event, creating a truly unique event i
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Tiny Sea Monkeys Create Giant Ocean Currents
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Every evening, sunset signals the start of dinner for billions of wiggling sea monkeys living in the ocean. As these sea monkeys — which are not actually monkeys but a type of shrimp — swarm to the surface in one large, culmin
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Cubesats: A Space Junk Hazard?
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Cubesats provide a valuable, low-cost research space platform for institutions, universities, laboratories and space agencies, but could their use create a new hazard for the increasingly crowded orbital environment?
According
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No Single Missing Link Between Birds and Dinosaurs
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Birds didn't evolve in one fell swoop from their dinosaur ancestors, suggests a newly constructed dinosaur family tree showing our feathery friends evolved very gradually, at first.
Ever seen a bird penis? Chances are you haven
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Solar System's Water is Older Than the Sun
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Guess what Earth's been hiding from us, way down in its belly? Water! Lots and lots of water. So concludes a team of scientists who ran computer models comparing the ratios of hydrogen isotopes over time. Taking into account new i
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Is fracking greener than solar power and wind turbines?
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Is fracking greener than solar power and wind turbines? An easy one today... I don’t know. From this study it would be improper to draw a conclusion about which energy source causes less environmental damage.
In the end, it
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India's Mars Orbiter Mission Arrives at the Red Planet
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India has joined the Mars club. Could small amounts of liquid water exist on the surface of Mars? Salt may be a key to answering that question.
India's Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) probe was captured by the Red Planet's gravity
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Big-Nosed Dino Might Have Attracted Mates With Shnoz
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A new dinosaur with a huge nose has been unearthed in Utah and now the question is: what did it do with its enormous shnoz?
The dinosaur, Rhinorex condrupus aka “King Nose,” could have used its namesake body part for a vari
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Bart’s Bash sets the new Guinness World Record
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Bart’s Bash, the global sailing race organized by the Andrew Simpson Sailing Foundation which took place on 21st September, has set the new Guinness World Record for the Largest Sailing Race (24 hours).
While the Bart’s Ba
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Weird Green 'Eggs' Wash Up on Sydney Beach: Photos
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Australian beachgoers got a surprise this week when strange balls of living green algae started washing up on Dee Why beach in Sydney. “I did poke it with my toes and it’s squishy, like a sponge,” Surf Life Saving Club patro
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More Than 50 'Nazca Lines' Found in Kazakhstan
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More than 50 geoglyphs with various shapes and sizes, including a massive swastika, have been discovered across northern Kazakhstan in Central Asia, say archaeologists.
Powerful things can often derive from simple principles,
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Cassini Admires Trio of 'Oddball' Saturn Moons
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There’s no denying it, Saturn has an astonishing array of moons of different shapes, sizes and compositions. In this newly-released observation from the 10 year-old NASA Cassini mission, the orbiter managed to capture three of t
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