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18.10.2013 15:40
Onlookers surround what may be the largest
surviving piece of a meteorite that fell to the
bottom of Russia's Lake Chebarkul in
February. The rock, linked to a spectacular
meteor blast over the city of Chelyabinsk,
was dredged up on Wednesday.Divers raised a coffee-table-size chunk of
the...
18.10.2013 15:34
The health of the world's oceans are
inextricably linked to human health and
well-being; more than one-third of people
worldwide depend on seafood for 20
percent of their animal protein, according
to the United Nations.
To gauge how well the oceans are doing,
a large team of researchers created...
18.10.2013 15:29
Herod the Great, the king of Judea who
ruled not long before the time of Jesus,
seems to have eluded historians once
again.
In 2007 archaeologists announced they
had found the great king's tomb , a
surprisingly modest mausoleum that was
part of the Herodium, a massive complex
built by Herod on a...
18.10.2013 15:17
Almost 30 million people across the
globe are living in modern-day slavery,
according to a report published
Thursday.
The inaugural Global Slavery Index,
published by the Australia-based Walk
Free Foundation , said the African
nation of Mauritania, Haiti, Pakistan,
and India have the highest...
18.10.2013 15:16
LONDON - It was a simple of act of
faith that paid a handsome return. A
delighted grandfather announced his
retirement Wednesday after banking
more than $200,000 on a bet that his
grandson would one day play
international soccer for his home
country.
Peter Edwards made the $80 bet in
January 2000...
18.10.2013 14:53
The Amazon is the largest and most
diverse rain forest in the world — about
10 percent of all known species on Earth
dwell there — but only a few dozen of the
Amazon's thousands of tree species rule
the jungle, researchers recently found.
This new analysis can help reveal which
Amazon tree species...
18.10.2013 14:46
LONDON — The mile-long walk from
the Putney Bridge tube stop to Craven
Cottage, the home of Fulham Football
Club, is among the most scenic in
English soccer. On game days, fathers
and sons, young couples and hardened
fans amble together through Bishop’s
Park past rose bushes, stone sculptures
and...
11.10.2013 17:08
We point to things without giving much
thought to what a sophisticated act it
really is. By simply extending a finger,
we can let other people know we want
to draw their attention to an object,
and indicate which object it is.
As sophisticated as pointing may be,
however, babies usually learn to do...
11.10.2013 17:05
If greenhouse emissions continue their
steady escalation, temperatures across
most of the earth will rise to levels with
no recorded precedent by the middle of
this century, researchers said
Wednesday.
Scientists from the University of
Hawaii at Manoa calculated that by
2047, plus or minus five...
11.10.2013 16:50
M. Scott Carpenter, whose flight into
space in 1962 as the second American
to orbit the Earth was marred by
technical problems and ended with the
nation waiting anxiously to see if he
had survived a landing far from the
target site, died on Thursday in Denver.
He was 88 and one of the last...
