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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 ...

  • Farmed fish overtakes farmed beef for first time

    Cows have been overtaken by fish. For the first time in modern history, the world has been producing more farmed fish than farmed beef. But instead of being a boon for the environment, many fish farms are damaging it because of the types of fish they ...

  • Flamingo-like pterosaur used gravel for digestion

    IF YOU'RE flying, it's normally best to travel light, but one prehistoric flying reptile didn't get the memo. It took to the skies with a cargo of gravel in its ...

  • UPDATE 1-BC Partners buys Springer Science for 3.3 bln euros

    * Dual track approach helped push price * Largest German private equity deal since 2006 * Seller says deal set to close in August FRANKFURT, June 19 (Reuters) - Buyout firm BC Partners has agreed to take over German publisher Springer ...

  • 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 ...


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The Godfather Part III [DVD]

The Godfather Part III [DVD]

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  • 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: ...

  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...

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