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  • 280 new moon craters identified

    Using ultra-high resolution mapping techniques, scientists from Australia have identified 280 craters on the moon that have never been mapped before. The researchers at Curtin University in Western Australia used computer modelling of lunar gravity and topography data to explore detailed basins that would be obscured using other methods, Xinhua reported. A total of 66 of the craters identified ...

  • Whats in a name Why scientific names are important

    The correct use of formal scientific names of organisms is key to accurate communication, but despite the simplicity of the system, is rarely done ...

  • MSNBC anchor is anti-science doesnt want to know if babies feel pain during abortion

    MSNBC anchor Craig Melvin doesn't seem terribly concerned with the question of whether infants being aborted can feel pain.In an interview this morning, after Melvin said theevidence that the unborn feel pain before the third trimester is "limited," Representative Marsha Blackburn (R., Tenn.) explained to Melvin that the bill dealt with pregnancies at the 20th week or later, and ...

  • Video games | Dean Burnett

    PETA recently released a video game where you commit violence against research scientists. Arguably the best response would be to create video games that promote and educate about ...

  • Open access inaction | Jack Stilgoe

    Despite being a member of staff at one of Europe's largest universities, I don't have access to a journal in which my own work is published. Photograph: ...


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Lawless [Blu-Ray]

John Hillcoats Lawless is set in the boozy-sleazy backwoods of Virginia at the height of Prohibition, when the hillsides were lit at night by burning stills and the local police didnt just look the other way, but actively participated in bootlegging. The pulp fictional screenplay by Nick ... ...

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  • Europes Herschel space telescope decommissioned and sent floating

    Astronomers using the Herschel Space Observatory discovered that a suspected ring at the center of our galaxy is warped for reasons they cannot explain. The Herschel was retired on Monday. (NASA/Courtesy) Europe's deep-space Herschel telescope was decommissioned Monday and will be free to float around the Sun for eternity. Herschel, the largest and most powerful infrared telescope, ended ...

  • BC Partners buys Springer Science for 3.3 billion euros

    FRANKFURT, June 19 | Wed Jun 19, 2013 3:12am EDT FRANKFURT, June 19 (Reuters) - Private equity firm BC Partners agreed to buy German publisher Springer Science+Business Media for about 3.3 billion euros ($4.4 billion), Springer Science owner EQT said on Wednesday. The closing of the transaction is expected in August, EQT said. Springer Science is owned by Swedish private equity firm EQT ...

  • FBI fugitive arrested in Mexican resort

    Walter Lee Williams, a former university professor seen here in a 2011 handout photo released by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), has become the 500th person to be named to the Ten Most Wanted list, according to an FBI statement. (REUTERS/FBI/Handout via Reuters) CANCUN – Mexican authorities on Tuesday arrested a former U.S. university professor, who recently was added to the ...

  • Details about crash that killed first man in space revealed

    London, June 18 : The speculations about the 1968 air crash of MiG-15 which killed the 'first man in space' Yuri Gagarin, have taken a fresh turn when fellow cosmonaut revealed details about the ...

  • Astronaut to give 1st lesson in space

    China's first teacher in space Wang Yaping is in orbit and due to deliver a lecture to students via a video feed on Thursday, China Central Television ...

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