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 Father of China's space program dies at 98
Posted on Saturday, 31 October, 2009| 7:18 | Comments: 0
Qian Xuesen who is widely known as the father of China's space program has died aged 98. He set up China's first rocket and missile research institute and worked on its first ever satellite which was launched in 1970....
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Ancient Mysteries |
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 Has the original Labyrinth been found ?
Posted on Friday, 30 October, 2009| 7:52 | Comments: 3
An elaborate network of underground tunnels found in a disused quarry on the Greek island of Crete is now thought to be the site of the original mythical Labyrinth where Theseus fought the half-man, half-bull Minotaur....
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 Woman swallows 78 items of cutlery
Posted on Friday, 30 October, 2009| 7:47 | Comments: 7
A 52-year-old woman with an obsession for swallowing cutlery had to undergo an operation after she consumed a whopping 78 spoons and forks, when asked about her condition she told doctors that she couldn't help herself....
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 Giant pumpkin breaks record
Posted on Friday, 30 October, 2009| 7:42 | Comments: 3
Just in time for Halloween, a school teacher in Ohio has grown a record breaking giant pumpkin that's so large it weighs more than the average cow at 1,725 pounds....
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Columnist: Stephane Wuttunee |
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 H1N1: to jab or not to jab ?
Posted on Thursday, 29 October, 2009| 10:17 | Comments: 34
Stephane Wuttunee: "It is not good to test fate" or so the saying goes. And yet that is exactly what I intend to do in the next few weeks as fears and concerns regarding the H1N1 flu vaccine reach a fevering pitch. In other words, despite my questions about the vaccine and its potential side effects, I may eventually allow a complete stranger to inject a foreign substance into my body – a substance, I may add, that actually contains trace amounts of the very disease I wish to avoid.
And this is where the dilemma starts.
I do not trust main...
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Space and Astronomy |
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 Exploding star from 13 billion years ago
Posted on Thursday, 29 October, 2009| 10:15 | Comments: 38
A new world record has been set for the most distant astronomical object ever observed, astronomers have viewed light from a star that exploded 13 billion years ago, just 640 million years after the Big Bang occured....
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The UFO Phenomenon |
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 Triangular UFO spotted over Russia
Posted on Thursday, 29 October, 2009| 10:12 | Comments: 4
Earlier this month residents of Saint Petersburg sighted a triangular object hovering over apartment buildings, the object had three glowing neon lights, appearing and disappearing to the surprise and intrigue of onlookers.
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Natural World |
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 Whales are polite conversationalists
Posted on Thursday, 29 October, 2009| 6:50 | Comments: 0
A group of marine biologists have developed a new tool that can detect and identify the sounds made by individual whales communicating with one another in an ocean filled with marine animal chatter....
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The UFO Phenomenon |
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 Latvian meteor is revealed as a hoax
Posted on Wednesday, 28 October, 2009| 8:01 | Comments: 5
The strange object that allegedly fell over Latvia this week has been revealed as a hoax staged by a mobile operator, a representative stated that the purpose of the hoax was to make the Latvian population believe in themselves....
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Palaeontology |
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 Earliest apelike human ancestor disproved?
Posted on Wednesday, 28 October, 2009| 7:49 | Comments: 20
A fossil of the 50-million-year-old Algeripithecus long believed to be the strongest evidence that apes and humans originated in Africa is now believed to be nothing like an ape at all and is in fact from a different group entirely....
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