NASA mission explores world's deepest sinkhole

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A NASA-funded expedition, including researchers from Carnegie Mellon University’s Robotics Institute, will begin searching for the submerged bottom of Mexico’s El Zacatón sinkhole with a robotic submarine the week of May 14.


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Russian cargo ship docks with the ISS

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A Russian Progress M-64 cargo ship docked Saturday with the International Space Station, the Interfax news agency reported.

Wildlife numbers plummet globally: WWF

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The world's wildlife populations have reduced by around a quarter since the 1970s, according to a major report published Friday by the WWF conservation organization.

Thirty-Meter Telescope Focuses on Two Candidate Sites

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After completing a worldwide survey unprecedented in rigor and detail of astronomical sites for the Thirty-Meter Telescope (TMT), the TMT Observatory Corporation board of directors has selected two outstanding sites, one ...

Scientists identified earthquake faults in Sichuan, China

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Only last summer research published by earth scientists in the international journal Tectonics concluded that geological faults in the Sichuan Basin, China "are sufficiently long to sustain a strong ground-shaking ...

Pioneering landscape-scale research releases first findings

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The May issue of the Canadian Journal of Forest Research presents the preliminary findings of 23 scientists involved in one of the first landscape-scale experiments on how forest management affects western Ponderosa ...
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