There are many things that a vintner can control—where to establish a vineyard, which varieties to plant, when to apply water and fertilizer. But the weather is not one of them. Earlier this year, EUR 2bn worth of wine ...
Plants & Animals
Nov 29, 2021
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A recreation of three common types of Paleolithic lighting systems (torches, grease lamps, and fireplaces) illuminates how Paleolithic cave dwellers might have traveled, lived, and created in the depths of their caves, according ...
Archaeology
Jun 16, 2021
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Leslie Van Gelder, a well-known American-born archeologist has been working with Dr. Harald Schwefel, and other physicists at Otago University to develop a lamp that mimics the flickering torch light that paleolithic cave ...
Archaeology
May 15, 2019
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Toyota Motor Corp. is working on a "flying car."
Business
Jun 3, 2017
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A jaguar trotted out for the Olympic torch's passage through Brazil's Amazon was killed shortly afterward when it escaped its handlers and threatened a vet, the Brazilian military said Tuesday.
Plants & Animals
Jun 22, 2016
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An interdisciplinary team of students and faculty at Purdue University has designed and built three types of torches that will be central to Indiana's bicentennial relay next year.
Space Exploration
Dec 11, 2015
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Three astronauts returned to Earth on Monday after a 166-day mission, bringing the Olympic torch back from the International Space Station after a historic space walk.
Space Exploration
Nov 10, 2013
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Two cosmonauts took the Olympic torch—unlit—for a spacewalk Saturday in a historic showcasing of Russia's Sochi Winter Olympic Games in three months' time.
Space Exploration
Nov 9, 2013
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Two cosmonauts took the Olympic torch—unlit—for a spacewalk Saturday in a historic showcasing of Russia's Sochi Winter Olympic Games in three months' time.
Space Exploration
Nov 9, 2013
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Two Russian cosmonauts will carry the Olympic torch when they venture outside the International Space Station Saturday, Nov. 9, for a six-hour spacewalk to perform maintenance work on the orbiting laboratory.
Space Exploration
Nov 8, 2013
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