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The Guardian -
Some time around one million years ago, a couple of the brighter members of homo erectus carried some wood 30 metres inside their cave in South Africa, lit a fire and sat down to a cooked meal.
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New York Times -
You recently made news for taking an incredibly tiny submarine seven miles deep into the Pacific Ocean. Was there a moment inside that thing when you thought, This totally sucks?
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The Canberra Times -
US Ambassador to Australia, Jeffrey L. Bleich, NASA Administrator, Charles F. Bolden, and Questacon director, Professor Graham Durant, at Questacon today.
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SlashGear -
Researchers over at MIT are always working on things that seem impossible, yet somehow they make it work. A perfect example is the new little magnetic cubes that researchers at the University have designed that are able to communicate with each other ...
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SBS -
New research on corals in the Pacific islands of Kiribati suggests some reefs are more likely than others to withstand ocean warming.
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News-Medical.net -
Radioactive iodine found by Dartmouth researchers in the local New Hampshire environment is a direct consequence of a nuclear reactor's explosion and meltdown half a world away, says Joshua Landis, a research associate in the Department of Earth ...
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Sydney Morning Herald -
You might have hundreds of Facebook friends but a US study has found it's who they are that is most important. It's not how many Facebook "friends" you have but who they are that matters, according to a global analysis of how we use the social ...
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Summit County Citizens Voice -
By Summit Voice SUMMIT COUNTY - Some corals may be able to adapt to increasingly acidified oceans by using a molecular pump to regulate their internal acid balance, according to researchers with Australia's ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef ...
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Washington Post -
The smallest fish in the sea are more than twice as valuable when they're eaten by bigger fish than when they're caught by humans, according to a report released Sunday by a scientific task force.
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Scientific American -
By Larry Greenemeier | April 2, 2012 | 5 FALLIBLE SAFETY FEATURE: The Titanic was built with 16 major watertight compartments in its lower section designed to be sealed off in the event of a punctured hull.
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Moneycontrol.com -
They are angry, they are popular and they will be hitting TV screens this year, reports Daily Mail. One of the most popular games of all times, which reportedly has been downloaded some 700 million times, so far; Angry Birds will soon be a weekly TV ...
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Hawaii Reporter -
When a hunk of space junk came hurtling close to the International Space Station last week, the crew took shelter in their Soyuz return vehicle as a precaution.
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News24 -
The Precision Array to Probe Epoch of Reionization experiment has demonstrated that the Karoo site proposed by SA for the Square Kilometre Array was ideal.
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Sydney Morning Herald -
HE MAY have lost the race to the bottom of the ocean to James Cameron, but Sir Richard Branson is confident his own deep-sea dive will reveal more than his rival's did.
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The Australian -
EVERY year the Large Hadron Collider, operated by the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Geneva, produces about 15 petabytes (15 million gigabytes) of data -- enough to fill more than 1.7 million dual-layer DVDs a year -- and the data ...
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Sydney Morning Herald -
Landmarks across the world go dark as part of Earth Hour, a global campaign to highlight climate change. Hundreds of landmarks from Berlin's Brandenburg Gate to the Great Wall of China went dark on Saturday night as part of a global effort to highlight ...
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iTWire -
For the first week in April 2012, the planet Venus is making a pass at Seven Sisters. And, you can watch it all unfold by looking westward in the evening sky.
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