Interesting Places
20.12.2011 12:01
NASA: WASHINGTON -- NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has found bright veins of a mineral, apparently gypsum, deposited by water. Analysis of the vein will help improve understanding of the history of wet environments on Mars.
"This tells a slam-dunk story that water flowed through...
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20.12.2011 11:52
BBC:Scientists believe they have made a remarkable discovery of fossils said to be more than 450 million years old in a disused Powys quarry.
They think they are of a kind never before discovered.
The well-preserved organisms from the Ordovician period, which began about 495m years ago, lived...
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20.12.2011 11:45
BBC: The future of English mistletoe is still at risk because of disappearing orchards, experts have warned.
A national campaign began in 2009 to try to preserve the traditional Christmas shrub.
But there are fears it could disappear from woodland within 20 years as traditional orchards...
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20.12.2011 11:43
BBC: Experts say they have confirmed for the first time the precise origin of some of the rocks at Stonehenge.
It has long been suspected that rhyolites from the northern Preseli Hills helped build the monument.
But research by National Museum Wales and Leicester University has identified...
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20.12.2011 11:39
BBC: Scientists have assembled a remarkable record of water quality in the Thames that stretches back over 140 years.
The archive is thought to be the longest for any river in the world.
Putting it together involved hunting down old paper documents detailing monthly water tests. Some of them...
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20.12.2011 11:24
Reuters) - The most Earth-like planet ever discovered is circling a star 600 light years away, a key finding in an ongoing quest to learn if life exists beyond Earth, scientists said on Monday.
The planet, called Kepler-22b, joins a list of more than 500 planets found to orbit stars beyond our...
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20.12.2011 11:23
(Reuters) - British scientists believe microscopic worms which are biologically very similar to humans may be the key to helping humans colonize other planets like Mars by giving clues on coping with long-term space living.
A team of scientists led by Nathaniel Szewczyk from Notthingham...
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20.12.2011 11:22
(Reuters) - The occasional sheep seeks respite from a sun that has scorched rocks black in this semi-desert region that South Africa hopes will host the world's most powerful radio telescope.
Chosen because of its remoteness, with hills providing an extra shield against radio interference, the...
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20.12.2011 11:20
(Reuters) - International scientists said on Tuesday they had found signs of the Higgs boson, an elementary sub-atomic particle believed to have played a vital role in the creation of the universe after the Big Bang.
Peter Higgs, the 82-year-old British theoretical physicist who first proposed...
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20.12.2011 11:14
Independent: Health Secretary rejects laws on drink prices, and says he has a plan to sober up some of Britain's drunks
Minimum pricing on alcohol will not beat Britain's burgeoning drink problem, the Health Secretary insists, defying medical experts. Andrew Lansley, who is preparing to launch a...
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