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Underground water reservoirs for the Jordan Valley

Water scarcity in the lower Jordan valley is extreme and political differences among the neighboring countries are high. To supply the population living in this region with sufficient clean water, Israeli, ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Nov 18, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Underground cave dating from the year 1 A.D. exposed in Jordan Valley

An artificial underground cave, the largest in Israel, has been exposed in the Jordan Valley in the course of a survey carried out by the University of Haifa's Department of Archaeology.

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Jun 22, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (7) | comments 0




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Netscape co-founder nixes Yahoo! leadership role

Netscape co-founder turned Silicon Valley venture capitalist Marc Andreessen on Friday shot down reports he was in line to take an executive role at struggling Internet pioneer Yahoo!.

Technology / Business

created Dec 09, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Yahoo's 3Q shows company remains in financial funk (Update)

Yahoo keeps losing ground in the fast-moving Internet market, increasing the pressure on the struggling company to abandon its perpetual turnaround attempts and negotiate a sale with one of several prospective ...

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Was the fox prehistoric man's best friend?

 (PhysOrg.com) -- Early humans may have preferred the fox to the dog as an animal companion, new archaeological findings suggest.

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Jan 27, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (20) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

Scientists drill beneath Dead Sea in search of priceless data

If you thought you couldn't get any lower than the Dead Sea, think again. You can go under it.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 21, 2010 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (8) | comments 4

Abortion rights foes look to spread fetal pain law

(AP) -- Abortion rights foes emboldened by a new Nebraska law that restricts late-term procedures based on the disputed notion that fetuses can feel pain after 20 weeks are pushing for similar legislation in other states, ...

Medicine & Health / Other

created Dec 10, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 277

Google creates its own real estate boom

Google's aggressive online growth increasingly has a counterpart in bricks and mortar, with the company's Mountain View, Calif., headquarters mushrooming over the past four years to occupy more than 4 million square feet, ...

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created Nov 18, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Mines and wines in Australia climate battle

Australian winemaker Brett Keating doesn't draw a parallel between the shorter, hotter seasons and slow creep of coal mining towards his land, but he is concerned.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Aug 02, 2010 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Berkeley Lab Geologist Studies the Ground Beneath His Feet

When geologist Preston Jordan was first hired at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in 1990, his assignment was to study the paleoseismology of the Hayward Fault, which lies to the west of the lab site ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jul 07, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Disposal of spilled coal ash a long, winding trip

(AP) -- More than a year after a Tennessee coal ash spill created one of the worst environmental disasters of its kind in U.S. history, the problem is seeping into several other states.

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created Mar 05, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (9) | comments 8

Signal fading on radio traffic reports

(AP) -- For more than 20 years, Mike Nolan was known to radio listeners as the "eye in the sky." He flew over Southern California freeways in his single-engine plane, reporting on the nation's worst traffic.

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created Nov 27, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1


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