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The trilogy is complete -- GigaGalaxy Zoom Phase 3
Sep 28, 2009 |
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The newly released image extends across a field of view of more than one and a half square degree — an area eight times larger than that of the full Moon — and was obtained with the Wide Field Imager attached ...
Transplanted coral growing fast in lagoon off Okinawa coast
Feb 07, 2009 |
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Baby coral transplanted in the Sekisei coral-reef lagoon in Japan's Okinawa Prefecture under a coral-reef regeneration program are growing steadily, according to the Environment Ministry and the Tokyo University of Marine ...
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Nearly half of Venice underwater
Nov 30, 2009 |
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Much of the historic Italian city of Venice, including St. Mark's Square, was underwater Monday following a meteorological depression combined with natural tide waters, officials said.
Box office boost shows 3D is here to stay
Nov 04, 2009 |
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Once regarded as a quirky fad for nerds wearing cardboard spectacles, 3D films are enjoying a mainstream renaissance and this time the medium is here to stay, entertainment industry experts say.
Lagoon size can be predicted
Nov 03, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The size of Santa Barbara area lagoons can be predicted, according to a new study by UC Santa Barbara scientists, who say that their research could help protect the endangered steelhead trout.
Zooming to the centre of the Milky Way -- GigaGalaxy Zoom phase 2
Sep 21, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The second of three images of ESO's GigaGalaxy Zoom project has just been released online. It is a new and wonderful 340-million-pixel vista of the central parts of our home galaxy as seen ...
Earth's most prominent rainfall feature creeping northward
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jul 01, 2009 |
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The rain band near the equator that determines the supply of freshwater to nearly a billion people throughout the tropics and subtropics has been creeping north for more than 300 years, probably because of ...
Fossil bone bed helps reconstruct life along California's ancient coastline
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Jun 08, 2009 |
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In the famed Sharktooth Hill Bone Bed near Bakersfield, Calif., shark teeth as big as a hand and weighing a pound each, intermixed with copious bones from extinct seals and whales, seem to tell of a 15-million-year-old ...
Lesson from the past for surviving climate change
May 27, 2009 |
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Research led by the University of Leicester suggests people today and in future generations should look to the past in order to mitigate the worst effects of climate change.
It's safer to recycle, not dump, toxic electronics
Apr 27, 2009 |
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Standing in the bed of a pickup truck backed against the concrete ledge of the dump, the silhouette of an adult male teeters for a moment, a small but bulky television set held high overhead.
You don't call, you don't write: Connectivity in marine fish populations
Mar 25, 2009 |
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Children of baby boomers aren't the only ones who have taken to setting up home far from where their parents live. A new study published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences documents how larval ...
Italy dig unearths female 'vampire' in Venice
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Mar 14, 2009 |
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(AP) -- An archaeological dig near Venice has unearthed the 16th-century remains of a woman with a brick stuck between her jaws - evidence, experts say, that she was believed to be a vampire. The unusual ...
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