As Atlantis prepares for a last journey into space, it is probably time to note that the entire Space Shuttle programme cost around the same as the bank bailouts in this country. Isn't it wonderful what politicians choose to throw our money at?
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After the recent severe floods, masses of spiders have been forced to seek new accomodation in and around Wagga Wagga in New South Wales. The normally solitary wolf spiders have congregated in their thousands and moved from their ground-based homes to seek higher, drier ground by spinning their webs above ground. [slideshow]
The Buran shuttle was a Russian orbital vehicle developed as a response to the US Space Shuttle which was suspected by Russia to have military capabilities, although their security advisors could not be sure of what that capability might be. The Buran completed one unmanned orbital mission in 1988 before the programme was cancelled in…
The discovery may change the way we imagine and depict dinosaurs. A new method for measuring the weight and size of dinosaurs has found that these animals weighed less than previously estimated. A huge Brachiosaur, once thought to weigh 176,370 pounds, is now believed to have weighed 50,706 pounds. The researchers believe all dinosaurs were…
Common Ancestor Comes Into Focus ScienceDaily — The common ancestor of all jawed vertebrates on Earth resembled a shark, according to a new analysis of the braincase of a 290-million-year-old fossil fish that has long puzzled paleontologists.New research on Acanthodes bronni, a fish from the Paleozoic era, sheds light on the evolution of the earliest…
