January 2011
17 posts
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'MINI-COLOSSEUM' EXCAVATED IN ROME →
Beneath Rome’s Fiumicino airport lies a “mini-Colosseum” that may have played host to Roman emperors, according to British archaeologists.
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'MARS MISSION' CREW TO SPEND 520 DAYS IN ISOLATION →
Like in a proper Mars mission, the crew will have to live on food rations akin to those used by real astronauts and their only outside communication will be by email, with a delay of up to 40 minutes. The hatch will only re-open when the experiment ends or if one of the all-male team pulls out.
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WORLD'S LARGEST CAVE EXPLORED IN VIETNAM: BIG PIC →
The biggest known cave in the world is hidden in a jungle in Vietnam, but a team of cavers with the help of a local farmer are exploring its depths.
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HINTS OF LOST CALIGULA PALACE FOUND THANKS TO... →
The special art squad police arrested last week near Lake Nemi, south of Rome, a man trying to load part of an eight-foot-tall statue onto his truck.
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Ugandan Who Spoke Up for Gays Is Beaten to Death →
RIP David Kato
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FIRST PHOTOGRAPH OF A SNOWFLAKE: BIG PIC →
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SHARKS SWIMMING IN AUSTRALIA'S FLOODED STREETS →
Whoa!
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AERIAL DRONE TO HUNT LIFE ON MARS →
If selected by NASA, the Aerial Regional-Scale Environment Surveyor (ARES) could soar high above the Martian landscape.
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BOTTLENECKS MADE HUMANS LESS DIVERSE →
Two bottlenecks in evolution led humans to be much more closely related to one another, research claims.
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AUSTRALIA'S DEVASTATING FLOODS SPOTTED FROM SPACE:... →
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YOUR STAR SIGN JUST GOT RUMBLED →
“But according to astrologers there are 12 signs of the zodiac. Wrong! There are 13 signs of the zodiac; Ophiuchus is the ‘new’ one yet for some curious reason I have never come across an Ophiuchian!”
So I’m a fucking Virgo now?!? This can’t be.
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TINY, EARTH-LIKE PLANET DISCOVERED →
“It’s the planetary missing link,” said University of California-Berkeley astronomer Geoff Marcy, who likened the find to the development of penicillin and the discovery of DNA.
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Can We Find Trees on Other Planets? →
“Seen from afar, the forest canopy would present a fractal topology that would markedly change in appearance depending on the angle of illumination by the parent star as the planet orbits it, the researchers explain.”