New Solar Farm

NextEra Energy Resources thought it had a golden project. Eleven solar thermal farms have been proposed for Southern California and are going through the permitting process with the California Energy Commission and with the U.S. Bureau of Land Management...

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Potala Palace, Lhasa

The Potala Palace (Tibetan: Po-trang Po-ta-la; Chinese: Bùdála Gong) in Lhasa was the primary residence of the Dalai Lama until 1959, when the 14th Dalai Lama fled to Dharamsala after a failed uprising.Today the Potala Palace is a state museum, a popular...

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Space tourism?

Space is the next frontier in adventure travel, suggests a survey analysis, with sub-orbital tourism perhaps embracing the modern-day jet set this year.In the current Acta Astronautica journal, Véronique Ziliotto of Holland's European Space Research...

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Angkor Wat doomed by drought, floods, suggests tree ring study

The ancient Cambodian capital of Angkor Wat suffered decades of drought interspersed with monsoon lashings that doomed the city six centuries ago, suggests a Monday tree-ring study.A 979-year record of tree rings taken from Vietnam's highlands, released...

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Biblical plagues really happened

The Biblical plagues that devastated Ancient Egypt in the Old Testament were the result of global warming and a volcanic eruption, scientists have claimed.Researchers believe they have found evidence of real natural disasters on which the ten plagues...

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Road runner - meet your dinosaur predecessor!

Road runner, meet your dinosaur predecessor, an "extreme" runner unearthed by an international paleontology team in central China.In the journal Zootaxa, a team led by Xing Xu of the Chinese Academy of Sciences reports, Xixianykus zhangi ('SHEE-shya-nye-kus jong-eye') describes a pint-sized, two-legged sprinter from about 85 million years ago. The fossil's legs, hips and backbone adds to growing evidence...

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Road runner - meet your dinosaur predecessor!

Road runner, meet your dinosaur predecessor, an "extreme" runner unearthed by an international paleontology team in central China.In the journal Zootaxa, a team led by Xing Xu of the Chinese Academy of Sciences reports, Xixianykus zhangi ('SHEE-shya-nye-kus...

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Giant mouse lemur

A new population of rare giant mouse lemurs was discovered in southwestern Madagascar's Ranobe forest, in an area threatened by mining concessions, WWF said today."Last year during a night survey monitoring biodiversity along the gallery forest of Ranobe...

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The "Starchild"

We finally have a recovery of nuclear DNA from the Starchild! This past weekend I met with the geneticist working on the Starchild's DNA. He explained how he can now prove the Starchild is not entirely human, which has been our position for years. Now...

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Tyrannosaurs spread worldwide early in Age of Dinosaurs

Paleontologists Thursday unveiled the first fossil evidence -- a foot-long pelvic bone found in Australia -- showing that T. Rex's predecessors roamed the entire globe.Reported in the journal, Science, the 110 million-years-old fossil pubis is "almost...

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Chinese divided over Google move to close service

The professor sounds upset, the tour guide says she doesn't care, and the taxi driver swears it's a coverup.Google's decision this week to close its self-censored Internet search service in mainland China was provoking diverse reactions here Thursday."I'm...

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10 great places to play a trick on the eye

What better way to celebrate April Fool's Day than by viewing trompe l'oeil, the artistic style that is French for "tricks the eye"? Ancient Greek artists were some of the earliest to play with perspective and create illusions. "People have always enjoyed...

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