A gemstone ‘stained with blood and dishonour’ haunted anyone who owned it. This week it goes on show for the first time.
Some 34 years ago Peter Tandy, a young curator at the Natural History Museum, happened upon a jewel while working among the great lines of mineral cabinets. From a scientific perspective, the stone was nothing special, though its setting was rather bizarre, bound by a silver ring decorated with astrological symbols and mystical words with two scarab-carved gems attached. It was a typewritten note that accompanied the jewel, an amethyst known as the Delhi Purple Sapphire, that caught Tandy’s eye.
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Source: timesonline.co.uk
Imagery could help scientists figure out history of ‘Home Plate’. NASA’s sharpest-eyed orbiter at Mars has spotted the Spirit rover far below, sitting on an enigmatic rock formation nicknamed “Home Plate.”
Such imagery could provide new clues about the plateau’s geological history — and serve as a guide for Spirit’s future sojourns around Home Plate, Ken Herkenhoff of the U.S. Geological Survey told msnbc.com on Monday.
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Source: msnbc.msn.com
The 7 Incredible Natural Phenomena: Venezuela’s Everlasting Storm, Honduras’ Rain of Fishes,Morocco’s Climbing Goats,Kerala’s (extraterrestrial?) Red Rain,Brazilian’s longest wave on the Earth,Denmark’s Black Sun,Idaho’s Fire Rainbow
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Forget about the threat that mankind poses to the Earth: our very ability to study the heavens may have shortened the inferred lifetime of the cosmos.
That does not mean the field of astronomy does direct harm. A universe with a truncated lifespan may come hand in hand with the ability of astronomers to make cosmological measurements, according to two American scientists who have studied the strange, subtle and cosmic implications of quantum mechanics, the most successful theory we have.
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Source: telegraph.co.uk
Ancient written texts from the Middle East may reveal that the use of biological weapons dates back more than 3300 years, according to a new review.
The historical documents hint that the Hittites – whose empire stretched from modern-day Turkey to northern Syria – sent diseased rams to their enemies to weaken them with tularemia, a devastating bacterial infection that remains a potential bioterror threat even today, says the review.
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Source: newscientist.com
More than four times the number of natural disasters are occurring now than did two decades ago, British charity Oxfam said in a study Sunday that largely blamed global warming.
“Oxfam… says that rising green house gas emissions are the major cause of weather-related disasters and must be tackled,” the organisation said, adding that the world’s poorest people were being hit the hardest.
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Source: physorg.com
A remote Chinese village has built a school in a giant mountain cave.
The school, named Middle Cave School, is located in the middle cave of a mountain in Getu village, Guizhou province.
It has expanded from just one class when it first opened to having eight teachers and 186 students.
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Vets believe the cat, which has two mouths, two noses and four eyes, may have two brains, as one face can go to sleep while the other remains awake and it can blink independently on each one.
“When he purrs it is like he is purring in stereo,” the cat’s owner said.
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Source: telegraph.co.uk
At the age of six months, most babies have barely learnt to sit up, let alone crawl, walk or talk.
But, according to new research, they can already assess someone’s intentions towards them, deciding who is a likely friend or enemy.
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Source: bbc.co.uk
They are making orange peel plastic and robots that can heal themselves. They are six researchers with six ideas that will one day change the world. Everything from making orange peel plastic to robots that can heal themselves.
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Source: esquire.com
Retired Air Force veteran Milton Sprouse clearly remembers the summer day in 1947 when he returned to Roswell Army AirField aboard the B-29 bomber Dave’s Dream from a three-day maneuver in Florida. Sprouse, then a corporal and engine mechanic in the Army Air Forces, could not believe what his ground crew was telling him: A UFO had crashed in the New Mexico desert, on a ranch 70 miles away.
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If they weren’t, now they are: PC manufacturer Alienware is releasing two notebooks, the Area-51 m15x and Area-51 m17x, with CARET glyphs on their backs.
And the marketing campaign for them include an “alien” message to decipher with further CARET glyphs and symbols.
So, even though the whole didn’t turn out to be a viral marketing campaign, it was too close to it that it was destined to be used that way.
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Source: forgetomori.com
On October 25, El Diario de Yucatan reported the sighting of a luminous object over the Mexican town of Hunucmá, which was witnessed by officers of the municipal police.
As was reported at the time, some officers took video images with the cellphones, and while the police director considered that the object could have been a star or satellite, the case drew the attention of researchers from the OVNI MERIDA group who traveled to Hunucma and secured a copy of the video.
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Pollution in the seas is now speeding global warming, says a devastating new climate report. Humanity is rapidly turning the seas acid through the same pollution that causes global warming, the world’s governments and top scientists agreed yesterday. The process – thought to be the most profound change in the chemistry of the oceans for 20 million years – is expected both to disrupt the entire web of life of the oceans and to make climate change worse.
The warning is just one of a whole series of alarming conclusions in a new report published by the official Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which last month shared the Nobel Peace Prize with former US vice president Al Gore.
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Source: independent.co.uk
An impoverished surfer has drawn up a new theory of the universe, seen by some as the Holy Grail of physics, which as received rave reviews from scientists.
His proposal is remarkable because, by the arcane standards of particle physics, it does not require highly complex mathematics.
Even better, it does not require more than one dimension of time and three of space, when some rival theories need ten or even more spatial dimensions and other bizarre concepts.
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Source: telegraph.co.uk
