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  • 280 new moon craters identified

    Using ultra-high resolution mapping techniques, scientists from Australia have identified 280 craters on the moon that have never been mapped before. The researchers at Curtin University in Western Australia used computer modelling of lunar gravity and topography data to explore detailed basins that would be obscured using other methods, Xinhua reported. A total of 66 of the craters identified ...

  • Steven and Alex Gerrard soak up the sun in Ibiza on 6th wedding anniversary

    Steven Gerrard and wife Alex lark have been spotted splashing around in the sea, while celebrating their 6th wedding anniversary in Ibiza. The loved-up couple, which got married in a lavish do at Cliveden House in Berkshire in 2007, showed that they are still head over heels in love even after years of marriage, the Sun reported. Alex, the stunning mum of three, wore a printed triangle bikini ...

  • ESAs Herschel telescope finally switched off

    European Space Agency's billion-euro Herschel space telescope has been switched off. Mission controllers sent the final command to the Herschel satellite Monday at 12:25 GMT (14:25 CEST), marking the end of operations for ESA's hugely successful space observatory. Herschel's science mission had already ended in April upon exhaustion of the crucial liquid helium that cooled the observatory's ...

  • Weight Gain In Infant’s First Month Linked To Higher IQ

    Researchers from the University of Adelaide have discovered a link between a baby’s weight in the first month after birth and a higher IQ by early school age. The scientists reported in the ...

  • List of worst Ontario roads released

    Dufferin St. in Toronto was voted the worst road in Ontario in the CAA's 2013 survey. (QMI Agency files) For the second consecutive year, Dufferin St. has made the top of Canadian Automobile Association's list of worst roads for 2013. The annual list was released Tuesday and revealed four Toronto roads as among the most difficult to drive in Ontario, including Finch Ave. W., Bayview ...


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The Fly (1958) [DVD]

The Fly (1958) [DVD]

Over the years, The Fly has become a camp classic among old movie enthusiasts. Although written and filmed as a straightforward sci-fi parable about the dangers of tampering with nature, it is so ludicrous, so positively over the top that it simply cannot be taken seriously. The film ... ...

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  • Albino Gorilla Was Result of Inbreeding

    Snowflake the gorilla gained notoriety for being the only known albino of his species. Now the late ape is making headlines again over the recent postmortem discovery that he was ...

  • New Female Astronauts Show Evolution of Women in Space

    NASA announced that eight new astronauts would be joining the U.S. space program. Of the eight new recruits, four are women--marking the first time NASA has selected an equal number of men and women for an incoming astronaut class. ...

  • NASA Seeks Citizen Scientists’ Input to Capture Asteroid

    WASHINGTON, June 18 (RIA Novosti) – NASA wants to send a manned mission to an asteroid as early as 2021 but needs help from citizen scientists around the world to identify a suitable space rock to land on and explore, the US space agency said Tuesday. NASA scientists and space flight veterans invited everyone from students in Siberia to companies in Cleveland to submit ideas for ...

  • Medieval bones yield 1000-year-old leprosy genome

    Mass graves of medieval leper colonies have yielded the oldest-ever full genome sequence of a human pathogen. The achievement opens the way for studies of even older leprosy bacteria and similarly ancient strains of tuberculosis - work that could reveal how the diseases became plagues, and perhaps help efforts to control and eradicate ...

  • Prehistoric armoured fish had the worlds first abs

    The new fish fossils contain the oldest preserved muscles ever found. While most fossils only preserve the hard parts of animals, like bones and teeth, these fossil fish contain soft ...

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