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HYDERABAD,
Sunday, April 28, 2013
The 45-minute show takes viewers 14,000 years back in time. This is besides a ride through the dinosaur era. One can also travel around in time and traverse through Egypt and Sumeria and the ruins in southeastern Turkey that were discovered recently
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Tuesday, March 5, 2013
It’s the stuff of nightmares: last week, a man in Florida died when the ground beneath his house…swallowed him. But what causes these sinkholes and how common are they?
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USA
Wednesday, February 13, 2013
Life on Earth could be facing threat from a catastrophic “supervolcano” which seismologists believe is due to erupt in 200 million years’ time. At least two “piles” of rock the size of continents...
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NEW DELHI,
March 30, 2012
The Petroleum and Natural Gas Ministry has given approval to the Directorate General of Hydrocarbons (DGH) for joining hands with the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ) at Postdam and He...
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Washington,
November 26, 2011
Oxygen is likely to be 2.48 billion years old, a new research has suggested.An international team says that banded ironstone core samples from the Pilbara rocks in Australia have aided in da...
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HYDERABAD,
March 22, 2011
Indian scientists will spearhead a major international project which is expected to provide fresh insights into the processes that cause earthquakes.The project, costing anywhere between Rs...
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Mumbai,
December 28, 2010
Scientists have claimed that hard rocks can have ‘long memories’, preserving evidence of various geological events that occurred millions of years ago, piecing together the evolu...
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October 28, 2010
New evidence linking “Snowball Earth” glacial events to the rise of early animals has been found by a team of scientists, led by biogeochemists at the University of California, R...
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London,
June 30, 2010
Legendary Egyptian queen Cleopatra did not die of a snake bite as is believed but died of a drug cocktail instead, a researcher has claimed.The lethal drug cocktail included opium and hemlo...
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Sydney,
May 24, 2010
Scientists have identified a dome, rather than a crater, at least 50 km across, buried under the Timor Sea.It was created by a giant asteroid smashing into the Earth around 35 million years...
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Bangalore,
April 4, 2010
The 6.6 magnitude earthquake that occurred north of the Andaman Islands on March 30 is yet another confirmation that this particular region will continue to be source of severe earthquakes, says a...
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VISAKHAPATNAM,
March 11, 2010
In an interesting finding by biologists and environmentalists, a colony of precious and rare marine species were spotted on the Vizag coast, indicating the presence of rich marine life in th...
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CHENNAI,
March 2, 2010
Can a snake prey on a dinosaur? The answer is yes. Remains of a snake and dinosaur fossil, and dinosaur eggs provide unequivocal evidence that a particular species of snake that lived in Dh...
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February 23, 2012
GSI to get new, hi-tech vessel for combing ocean depths
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Melbourne,,
April 12, 2011
A new phenomenon described as “yo-yo subduction” could help scientists better model the geological processes that lead to mountain building, volcanoes and earthquakes, Australian resea...
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Seoul,
March 16, 2011
The Korean Peninsula has moved a 5 centimetres to the east due to the massive quake that rocked Japan last week, a state-run astronomical institute said today.
The Korea Astronomy a...
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November 2, 2010
Evidence collected from western Argentina samples shows that land plants (Embryophytes), which played a critical role in changing the global climate and in the evolution of multicellular lif...
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Washington,
October 15, 2010
Tsunamis which often cause huge destruction on land also make a surprising impression even 300 km high above the Earth, scientists say. According to researchers, tsunamis generate mysteriou...
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London,
May 29, 2010
The collision of the Indian and Asian landmasses some 90 million years ago forced the Indian tectonic plate down under the Asian plate to a depth of 200 km - around double of previous estimates -...
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London,
May 14, 2010
In what could make scientists rethink their understanding of how Earth formed, researchers claim to have found evidence that water was present during the birth of our planet.An internationa...
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Kasauli,
March 30, 2010
A 25 million-year-old rock fossil of a palm tree will be one of the star attractions at a new fossil park coming up near this picturesque Himachal Pradesh town.The mammoth fossil, five feet...
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London,
March 5, 2010
An asteroid, the size of the Isle of Wight, that struck the earth with the force of billion Hiroshima's was behind the disappearance of the dinosaurs, a panel of 41 scientists have claimed.A...
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Washington,
November 13, 2009
The earth's climate was far cooler - perhaps more than 50 degrees - billions of years ago, suggesting the advent of life could have been earlier than believed.Mike Tice, researcher in the d...
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