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Early Bronze Age grave discovered in Perthshire

(PhysOrg.com) -- Archaeologists have discovered a spectacular Early Bronze Age grave at the Scottish Royal centre at Forteviot.

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Aug 11, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (8) | comments 0




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NASA engineers testing Webb telescope's OSIM and BIA instruments

(Phys.org) -- Several critical items related to NASA's next-generation James Webb Space Telescope are being tested in the giant thermal vacuum test chamber at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Apr 12, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 1

Growing bones with Lego

A video produced for Google Science Fair shows how researchers at Cambridge making synthetic bone have turned to legendary children’s toy Lego for a helping hand.

Technology / Engineering

created Mar 28, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

800-pound paper airplane takes flight

(PhysOrg.com) -- An 800-pound, 45-foot-long paper airplane with a 24-foot wingspan may be the largest paper airplane ever to glide across the sky. After being hoisted to a height of 2,703 feet by a helicopter ...

Technology / Engineering

created Mar 27, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (6) | comments 4 | with audio podcast weblog

New super-earth detected within the habitable zone of a nearby star

(PhysOrg.com) -- An international team of scientists has discovered a potentially habitable super-Earth orbiting a nearby star. With an orbital period of about 28 days and a minimum mass 4.5 times that of ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Feb 02, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (37) | comments 47 | with audio podcast

Will Red Planet rover send groundbreaking data over?

One of the most sophisticated space vehicles ever made inches along the rocky landscape, aluminum wheels grinding like a spoon in a garbage disposal.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 16, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (11) | comments 14

GPM satellite takes a spin on the high capacity centrifuge

In the clean room at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt Md., the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission's Core satellite is steadily taking shape. Set to measure rainfall worldwide after ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Oct 20, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Kenya moves elephants to ease trouble with humans

Kenyan rangers Thursday began relocating 50 rampaging elephants back to the renowned Maasai Mara game reserve to stem rising human deaths and property destruction in outlying villages.

Biology / Ecology

created Sep 22, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Robots are coming to aircraft assembly

Up to now, aircraft have been put together in huge assembly cells, but to build the necessary facilities is expensive and time-consuming. That is why Fraunhofer researchers have come up with a flexible assembly-line ...

Technology / Engineering

created Sep 19, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Engineers test effects of fire on steel structures, nuclear plant design

Ten years after 9/11, researchers at Purdue University are continuing work that could lead to safer steel structures such as buildings and bridges and also an emerging type of nuclear power plant design.

Technology / Engineering

created Sep 02, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 15 | with audio podcast

Why shuttles are being retired, what's next

Thirty years of flight by NASA's space shuttles will end once Atlantis returns home from this last mission. The space agency will be looking to deeper space exploration, but the future is still somewhat unclear.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jul 08, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (7) | comments 3


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